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...more than five hours, the huge flattop sat ignobly in the calm water, stuck in the mud of the bay. The 3,500-man crew could only stare across the short, unbridgeable distance to some 3,000 friends and relatives waiting in frustration at Alameda Naval Air Station, the carrier's home port. On shore, a gentle drizzle ruined the coiffures of women who had long looked forward to the reunions. Shirley Genson of Centerville, Ala., lamented, "This is my wedding day, and he's stuck out there." Said Debbie Harris of Show Low, Ariz., about her husband...
...lives were lost. But despite attempts to drain the new lake, the water has continued to rise at a rate of 4 in. an hour, fed by melting mountain snow. At least part of Thistle could be underwater for good. Commented State Geologist Bruce Kaliser, who claimed the mud bath was the largest in the area in 1,000 years: "It's the year of the slide...
...slides with a slippery slope: some ten miles away, another soggy mountainside began to roll downhill, threatening to divert a river through the town of Payson (pop. 5,000) before it firmed up. In Northern California earlier this month, a mud slide in the Sierras buried a 1,000-ft. stretch of Highway 50 between Sacramento and South Lake Tahoe under 60,000 cu. yds. of mud, rocks and debris. Highway crews, unable to remove the rubble, are now paving over the roadblock, which runs 30 to 40 ft. high in some spots. Mail in the area is temporarily being...
...soaking was not limited to the West, however. In Connecticut last week, a late spring snow, combined with 8.33 in. of rain that has fallen since the first of the month, made this the wettest April in the state's history. A freak mud slide crushed a house, three cars and two trucks in New Milford. And local officials in Farmington, Conn., airlifted 80 Ibs. of dry dog food to a puppy stranded on an island in the whirling waters of the Farmington River. In Vermont, a record-shattering April snowfall, topping 2 ft. in some areas, left more...
Kaminskaya found that in addition the investigator had fabricated evidence. Visiting the scene of the crime, she discovered that the boys could not have attacked Marina where the investigator said they did. The site, near a pond, had been awash in mud on the day of the murder, but the boys had been seen clean and dry shortly after they had allegedly committed the crime...