A Ketchikan woman who caught the immediate aftermath of Sunday’s deadly landslide on video says it didn’t dawn on her how close the massive slide came to her parent’s house as she rushed to rescue them.
on video says it didn’t dawn on her how close the massive slide came to her parent’s house as she rushed to rescue them.
Rhonda had gathered her three grandchildren and went into town to pick up her parents, not fully understanding the gravity of the situation. Rhonda said she got out of her vehicle and started filming the roadway and the home that had slid into another home.“It still hadn’t hit me,” Rhonda said as she was getting drenched while filming the video.
“And I said, ‘What’s happening?’ And she described it a little better for me, and then I said where are you? And she just tried to describe it for me multiple times.” “We drove down to Tongass , and when we drove on to Tongass, I was able to drive by and actually see, I was like, Oh, my God, it was a landslide,’ because I wasn’t able to see it right when I was up there,” Rhonda explained.
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