10 years after the deadliest US landslide, climate change is increasing the danger
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Jessica Pszonka hugs Dayn Brunner after they spoke during an interview while visiting the memorial for Oso landslide on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024, in Oso, Wash. Dayn Brunner lost his sister Summer Raffo in the slide. Jessica Pszonka lost her sister Katie, two nephews, and three other family members. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)An image of Brandy Lee Ward is seen at the memorial for the Oso landslide designed by local artist Tsovinar Muradyan and the Classic Foundry, ahead of the opening on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024, in Oso, Wash. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)The memorial for the Oso landslide designed by local artist Tsovinar Muradyan and the Classic Foundry is seen ahead of the opening on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024, in Oso, Wash. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)The Oso landslide scar is seen through a cutout in the memorial for victims Larry Jay Miller, 58, and Sandra Kay Miller, 64, which is part of the memorial for the landslide on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024, in Oso, Wash. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)FILE - An American flag hangs from the only cedar post left standing at the scene of a deadly mudslide, Monday, March 31, 2014, in Oso, Wash. (Sofia Jaramillo/The Herald via AP, Pool, File)The Oso landslide scar is seen near a sign at the memorial site on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024, in Oso, Wash. The mountainside collapsed, obliterating a neighborhood and 43 lives in the worst landslide disaster in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)Jessica Pszonka talks about the memorial for her family members who were lost in the Oso landslide on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024, in Oso, Wash. Jessica Pszonka lost her sister Katie, two nephews, and three other family members in the slide. After the landslide, Pszonka promised herself and her family to see a permanent memorial created where relatives and visitors could feel her sisters presence and reflect on the serenity that drew the family to Oso, as well as the forces that left an immense scar in the forested Cascade Mountain foothills. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)People visit the site of the Oso landslide on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024, in Oso, Wash. The trauma that engulfed Oso, a rural community of a couple hundred residents, on March 22, 2014, was a national wake-up call about the dangers of landslides. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)Dayn Brunner visits the memorial for Oso landslide ahead of the opening on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024, in Oso, Wash. Dayn Brunner lost his sister Summer Raffo in the slide. Brunner and others spent years working on the memorial holding fundraisers, lobbying lawmakers for money and attending planning committee meetings. They wanted to honor not just the lives lost, but the community response. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)FILE - The massive mudslide that killed 43 people in the community of Oso, Wash., is viewed from the air on March 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)Stones that are part of the memorial for the Oso landslide are seen ahead of the opening on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024, in Oso, Wash. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)A white cross is displayed on the top of the Oso landslide scar on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024, in Oso, Wash. The cross was originally put in place shortly after the tragedy that left 43 dead. On March 22, to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the tragedy the memorial for the slide will open. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)Jessica Pszonka and Dayn Brunner visit the memorial for Oso landslide ahead of the opening on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024, in Oso, Wash. Brunner lost his sister Summer Raffo in the slide. Pszonka lost her sister Katie, two nephews, and three other family members in the slide. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
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Jessica Pszonka hugs Dayn Brunner after they spoke during an interview while visiting the memorial for Oso landslide on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024, in Oso, Wash. Dayn Brunner lost his sister Summer Raffo in the slide. Jessica Pszonka lost her sister Katie, two nephews, and three other family members. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
