Oregon State Police (OSP) troopers provided these photographs taken Sunday, January 16, 2011, of Tillamook-area flooding and a major landslide that still has Highway 6 closed.
According to OSP Sergeant Greg Plummer, the slide started at the top of a ridge north of Highway 6 where the main power supply lines run toward Tillamook. The entire hillside slid south across Highway 6 and into the Wilson River. Mud and trees covered the highway closing it for at least two days. Power and phone service was knocked out in the immediate area of the slide. Several smaller slides on Highway 6 and Highway 101, as well as flooding issues throughout the county, have kept transportation and public safety agencies very busy.
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