Washington mudslide

A worker navigates the muck left behind by a landslide in Snohomish County, Wash. (Ted S. Warren / Associated Press)

March 22, 2014 7:58 PM PT

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A wall of mud, trees and rocks slammed into the Stillaguamish River, blocking the flow. The slide kept going, surging onto the southern shore where it obliterated at least 49 homes, and everything in and around them.

Searchers head toward the site of the mudslide in Oso, Wash., on Friday. (Lindsey Wasson / Associated Press)

A helicopter leaves the Darrington, Wash., airport on Friday as part of the emergency response to the massive mudslide in nearby Oso. (David Ryder / Getty Images)

Searchers work on the side of a hill Friday at the site of the deadly mudslide in Oso, Wash. (Lindsey Wasson / Associated Press)

A customer lays out a T-shirt for sale at a sporting goods store in Arlington, Wash., with proceeds to go to mudslide victims. (Elaine Thompson / Associated Press)

Volunteer Carol Messingale sorts through goods donated for mudslide relief in Darrington, Wash. (David Ryder / Getty Images)

Workers comb through debris at the site of the deadly mudslide in Oso, Wash. (Lindsey Wasson / Associated Press)

Snoqualmie Indian tribe members Toby Strotz, right, and his sister, Chris Strotz Jacobs, embrace in Darrington, Wash., after the tribe announced a donation of $275,000 for mudslide relief efforts, including for local fire departments, the Red Cross, and others. Fire District 24 Chief Dennis Fenstermaker, left, thanks members of the tribe for the donation. (David Ryder / Getty Images)

Claire Logan, right, carries supplies to help set up an evacuation center at Post Middle School in Arlington. (Mark Harrison / Seattle Times via AP)

Kristopher Langton shares a moment with his son, Kristian Langton, 5 months, at a temporary Red Cross shelter at the Darrington Community Center in Darrington, Wash. (David Ryder / Getty Images)

Amber Tollenaar, right, hugs the Rev. Janet Loyd at a temporary Red Cross shelter set up for landslide survivors at the Darrington Community Center in Darrington, Wash. (David Ryder / Getty Images)