Geologists warn,
officials ignore,
give out permits anyway.
Don’t worry,
build your homes out there,
the mountain side
could never slide
that far.
But it did.
And now the fingers
start to point
as they always do.
And to the victims
all the points are moot.
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© 2014 Betty Hayes Albright
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Thoughts and prayers to all the victims and their families
after the huge, deadly landslide north of us
in Oso, Washington.
As of 4-25-2014: 41 dead, 2 still missing.
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