Our house is under the flight path of the National Guard UH1s and Blackhawks heading to Oso from their base at JBLM. Flying north in the morning, and when we’re sitting down for dinner flying south again. God Bless those rescuers. It’s very dangerous work which is why they are not letting all the people that want to help in. There are hundreds of ways a person on that debris field can get into trouble. Boards with nails, kitchen knives, glass, and about every sharp pointy thing you can dream up in nature and manmade. And the mud is like quicksand and heavy equipment is moving all over the place.
And then there is still that unstable mountain. With the rains that moved back in, some of those showers very heavy, it is a very real possibility more of it will come down. It could take rescuers 45 minutes to make their way into a grid they are searching. If they hear the mountain give they got seconds to get there self back out.
