After Saturday’s massive landslide in Washington, at least 14 people have been confirmed dead and 176 remain missing.
According to USA Today, the landslide was 1-square-mile and critically injured many. At least 30 homes were completely destroyed in the weather.
In a press conference on Monday, John Pennington, Snohomish County’s Emergency Management Director, want to remind the public that the missing people toll may have duplicate names in it, so it may not actually be the near 200 people that it states is missing. Among the missing people are residents and also road workers and people driving through the area.
People know that this is a landslide-prone area,” Pennington said. “Sometimes big events just happen. Sometimes large events that nobody sees happens. And this event happened, and I want to find out why. I don’t have those answers right now.”
Reuters reports that the bad weather has slowed down the search for the missing people, but a slight break in the wet weather Tuesday was very helpful.