Word: mud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forget the sound. "The trees were popping and the boulders rolling," recalls Steve Moon of the fire department. "Anybody who wouldn't be nervous listening to that coming down the hill, there's just got to be something wrong with them." What came down the hill was mud: tons and tons of soggy, slippery, onrushing mud. The same thing was happening in the neighboring town of Bountiful, where 1,000 people had to be evacuated. Mud slides and floods all last week caused millions of dollars of damage and the loss of 16 homes in Utah...
...melting under suddenly warm spring weather. Torrential rains have further loosened the soil, which has been tumbling down into the canyons, creating an earth dam. As water builds up behind the dams, it is only a matter of time before the unstable materials start to give way and a mud slide is born...
...heavy rains and runoff in Utah turned a main street in Salt Lake City into a river, where enterprising citizens were catching fish. But mud slides in towns to the north pose a greater and continuing danger. "We can control the water, but the mud just goes where it wants to," explained Davis County Deputy Sheriff Harry Jones. "All we can do is try to anticipate where it is going and then get out of the way." Says another deputy, Pat Bird: "When it gets dark, nobody knows when it is coming or where it's coming from...
These epithets tend to cancel one another out, as they usually do and one's better impulse is not to get into the mud with these guys. But I have watched this band of movement-wrecking, non-sense-spouting dictators disrupt the left at Harvard for four years now, and I know how destructive their infantile disorder...
...size and enthusiasm of the gathering for "Eeyore's was matched only by students at Pennsylvania State University Despite gray skies and a steady drizzle that turned their fairgrounds into a sea of mud about 12,000 people turned out for the ninth annual "Sy Barash Regatta" celebration...