In Oso, lost neighbors always 'in our hearts -- never forgotten"
OSO — A matter of minutes meant the difference between life and death for people in Oso on March 22, 2014.
Ron and Gail Thompson left their house on Steelhead Drive that day just minutes before the Oso mudslide obliterated their neighborhood. The pair almost never went to Costco on Saturdays, but that day they went to pick up buns for a church youth group gathering. They had planned to make pulled pork sandwiches.
At 10:37 a.m., 8 million cubic meters of earth slid off a hill into the Steelhead Haven neighborhood of Oso, taking 43 lives, wrenching trees from their roots and engulfing everything in its path under a brown morass. It remains one of the deadliest landslides in U.S. history.
It’s been eight years since. On Tuesday, the Thompsons were among a group of about 30 community members and first responders who gathered for an annual remembrance ceremony at the memorial site off Highway 530.
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