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    CA. Melted glacier sends miles of mud down Mt. Shasta

    Melted glacier sends miles of mud down Mt. Shasta

    The Associated Press
    Published: Monday, Sep. 22, 2014 - 12:00 am
    Last Modified: Monday, Sep. 22, 2014 - 12:18 am


    MT. SHASTA, Calif. -- The largest mudslide on Northern California's Mt. Shasta in two decades may be related to California's prolonged drought, experts said Sunday.

    The mudslide began Saturday after a glacier holding pockets of water either shifted or melted, releasing water down the southeastern side of Mt. Shasta, said Andrea Capps, a spokeswoman for Shasta-Trinity National Forest.


    No injuries or damage to structure were reported, Capps said.

    "It's been an unusually warm September in Northern California, so our running theory is that the glacier got too weak and released water behind it," Capps said. "This is not terribly uncommon, but it's the largest mudslide we've seen in 20 years."

    The three-year-long drought has left the mountain's glaciers, which are typically protected by snow, exposed to the sun's heat.


    "The drought and the warm temperatures probably contributed to the event," said Brian Nieuwenhuis, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Medford, Oregon.


    The water sent mud and debris cascading down several miles and across two roads. The roads will have to be closed for several days for cleanup.


    Capps said the mud and debris flow will likely affect the water quality and fishing in the lower McCloud River.


    The area could see a thunderstorm Tuesday and Wednesday, which could bring snow between 10,000 and 12,000 feet or rain, which could send more silt, rock and debris down the mountain, Nieuwenhuis said.


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    Crews work to clear debris from Shasta mudslide

    Posted: Sep 22, 2014 2:26 PM PDT Updated: Sep 22, 2014 2:28 PM PDT


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    MOUNT SHASTA, Calif. (AP) - U.S. Forest Service crews on Mount Shasta were dealing Monday with mud flow from a melting glacier that covered two roads and a bridge in muck, logs and rocks and forced a mountain creek out of its banks.

    Mount Shasta's Mud Creek - pushed out of its channel by Saturday's mud flow - was flowing instead Monday over one of two Forest Service roads that have been made impassable by the weekend surge of wet earth and debris, U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Andrea Capps said.


    Road crews worked Monday to clear the road of a thick layer of mud and unplug a bridge dammed by debris and mud, Capps said.


    Saturday's mud flow happened when a tip broke off a glacier midway up Mount Shasta. Most of the mud, trees and rocks stayed within the channel of Mud Creek except when the mud flow hit bridges or other obstacles, Capp said.


    "It's not really wide but there's mud, rocks, trees," she said. None of the boulders were too big for bulldozers to move, she said.


    No injuries or damage to homes were reported. Residents of the nearest community - a small, off-the-grid subdivision on the mountains - were able to use other roads to reach their neighborhood, authorities and local residents said.


    A few miles down the mountain from the slide, some in the 1,400-resident town of McCloud used binoculars Monday to keep track of a pool of melting water visible on the surface of the glacier, said Darlene Mathis, who operates the McCloud River Mercantile Hotel. The weekend mudslide had come near to the pipe that supplies water for McCloud, Mathis said.


    Meteorologists say California's three-year drought contributed to the melting of the glacier. While the Mud Creek area and other parts of Mount Shasta have a history of mudslides, the weekend flow was the largest in decades, the U.S. Forest Service said.

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