Rick Wooten
Appearances
Up First from NPR
Unprepared: There is No Plan
A landslide like this is what we call a debris flow. It's like a huge locomotive going down the mountain.
Up First from NPR
Unprepared: There is No Plan
There's been at least one debris flow event that we can see in the older deposits.
Up First from NPR
Unprepared: There is No Plan
We can see that. That's a good indicator of where they could happen in the future.
Up First from NPR
Unprepared: There is No Plan
The statement that was made in the legislature at the time, the argument that won the day to cut the funding, was the landslide hazard mapping is just a backdoor approach to more regulations.