The streets were unpaved and impassable by any kind of vehicle, a river of muck trickling down a gully in the center of one.
The breach occurred when an earthen dike, the only thing separating millions of cubic yards of ash from the river, gave way, releasing a glossy sea of muck, four to six feet thick, dotted with icebergs of ash across the landscape.
The sudden, catastrophic mudslide on Saturday destroyed about 30 houses, temporarily damming a river and leaving a square-mile field of muck and debris in its wake.
The mudslide destroyed about 30 houses, temporarily damming a river and leaving a square mile field of muck and debris in its wake.
Just beyond, but unseeable from the river, was an enormous, reeking, debris-strewn sea of muck swallowing houses, barns, trucks and livestock, some of them nearly whole.
His attendance flickered even more when winter rains turned the dirt road to school into an impassable track of muck and the warming new year sent snowmelt flooding down the river, whitecaps marching on the Truckee, Sierra pines shooting down the rapids, turning bridges into overflowing dams and widening the waters beyond belief.
A gratifying pile of muck.
Now the lakefront homes look out over acres of muck.
The dredging has produced millions of cubic yards of muck.
New York City ends here, in a belt of muck and tar.
The simplest solution is a shedload of muck.
