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10 Years: Bonners Ferry Mudslide Recalled

Item: 10 years later, Bonners Ferry mud slide remembered/Gwen Albers, Hagadone News Network

More Info: The flickering lights at Mike Woodward's home on Oct. 16, 1998, didn't prepare him for what followed -- word that one million yards of mud had slid, taking out U.S. Highway 95 north of Bonners Ferry and a portion of the Union Pacific rail-line. ... Ten years later, there's very little sign left to indicate the damage that was done and the chaos that followed. But folks around Bonners Ferry and those involved with the aftermath remember when the mud slide severed Boundary County's main north-south corridor.

Question: Were you affected by the 1998 mud slide that severed Highway 95 north of Bonners Ferry?



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