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Memories of tragedies. Memorial Day 1983 Mudslide.

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Was watching a preview of the final show this Season of Fire Country which involves a mudslide. Probably among other things, though.

I had been working at the Bower's Mansion snack bar near the pool in Washoe Valley that Memorial Day when this mudslide hit Davis Creek Park about a mile north of us.

I could see the huge mound of mud and debris on the hill with the material covering the road.

Recalling the Ophir Creek Memorial Day flood | SierraSun.com

https://thetahoeweekly.com/2013/05/1...-flood-part-i/

https://thetahoeweekly.com/2013/05/m...flood-part-ii/

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Meanwhile, high overhead, hang glider Douglas Cook clearly saw what was happening. Cook had launched from the Slide Mountain Ski Resort parking lot shortly after 11 a.m. and taken advantage of the vigorous thermal air currents above Upper Price Lake. Positioned at an altitude of about 9,700’, Cook is the only known eyewitness to the landslides’ impact on the alpine reservoir.

As he soared 2,000’ to 2,500’ above the lake, Cook recalled, “I heard a roaring sound, kind of like the sound of a jet engine really close. I thought I was going to get hit. Out of the corner of my eye I could see a bunch of rising dust.” The seasoned glider pilot, with more than 1,000 successful launches, watched a big chunk of Slide Mountain collapse into Upper Price Lake. “When it hit the lake,” he said, “it was like a huge explosion. It just blew the lake apart. It looked like a tidal wave at first and then the canyon gathered it up.”

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Saw the last episode of the CBS show Fire Country and found it a bit much with respect to what would happen in reality but it was very entertaining.

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