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After Oso, Reborn From Water And Mud

caption: Robin walks through Squire Creek State park near her current home. Robin says being in nature helps her heal from the trauma of the landslide.
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Robin walks through Squire Creek State park near her current home. Robin says being in nature helps her heal from the trauma of the landslide.
KCTS Photo/Stacey Jenkins

Robin Youngblood cherished the nature around her home in Oso’s Steelhead Haven. When the landslide struck, she and a visiting friend were talking about a deer they had just seen. After the disaster, she left the Oso area. But something called her back. Now she lives a stone’s throw from state Route 530, a few miles east of the slide.

Read and hear other stories from Oso on Medium.

From KCTS: Youngblood talks about her experience.

KUOW 94.9 and KCTS 9 collaborated to produce this series of profiles of people most affected by the landslidea woman rescued from the mud, a couple who lost their home, a first responder struggling with post-traumatic stress, and leaders, municipal and spiritual, still working tirelessly for their community.

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