Word: mud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demographic predictions hold and the pool of 18-year-olds drops in the future. Well, the point is that we don't need more soldiers, just as we don't need more new types of high-tech gadgetry that can't get off the ground or out of the mud. Recruiting and retention rates for military personnel rose dramatically last year; there was even marked improvement in racial and economic representation. These trends must be nurtured with higher pay and productive benefits, like guaranteed tuition support after discharge...
...from normal, and so was its nightmarish impact. The extraordinarily heavy rains that poured down on Northern California last week-in some areas, more than a foot in 32 hours-followed weeks of rain that had saturated the porous clay earth. On Monday, mountainsides began turning to mud, flowing in thick torrents over towns and rural houses in their paths. In wealthy Marin Bounty, just north of San Francisco, more han 80 houses were destroyed by mud slides. In Santa Cruz County, to the south, where thousands of people were trapped their homes without power or water, authorities suspect that...
...Santa Cruz County, the greatest devastation occurred along Love Creek, near the town of Ben Lomond (pop. 2,793). Naomi Taylor says she heard a rumbling and looked outside. There, 20 ft. away, a 15-ft.-high tide of water and mud cascaded past, carrying her car with it. Her house was unscathed. Lester Grizzell, 54, slept through the mud slide. Says he: "It snuck in so smooth and slippery we didn't even hear it." But when he awoke, surrounding houses were gone. In another Santa Cruz town, Felton (pop. 2,062), John Raskins and his family fled...
...coast in Pacifica (pop. 36,866), a middle-class suburb just south of San Francisco, William and Barbara Velez had no such redemption. The mud sent a neighboring house crashing into theirs. The couple escaped, but all three Velez children, ages three to 14, died beneath 100 tons of mud...
...destruction was almost as severe north of the city. Highway 101 was made impassable by mud and floodwater along several stretches. The highway's link to San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge, was closed for only the third time since its opening in 1937, forcing thousands to take ferryboats. In Sausalito, a mud flow brought one hillside house slamming down onto two others, killing a woman. Two hundred yards away, Writer Brian Vander Horst watched. Says he: "It happened so fast that two rooms from the falling house were flashing with lights as they came down the hill. Mud...