Landslide Cleanup — Progress Summary

The Slide (May 29, 2025, 8:15 AM)

The first photo captures the immediate aftermath of the landslide that came down off the hillside behind the property. A section of the slope let go, taking several large pine and fir trees down with it — they're shown lying flattened across the debris field, still rooted at the base but toppled toward the yard.

The slide plowed straight through the diesel shop, leaving it sheared apart and tipped at a steep angle, its wood siding torn open and insulation hanging out. In front of it, an old pickup truck sits crushed and half-buried under the debris pile. Scattered across the foreground is the material that had to be sorted afterward: broken cinderblock, sheets of pink foam insulation, coiled blue tubing, splintered lumber, a mattress, and general shop contents thrown clear by the slide. Bare dirt is exposed high on the hillside where the slope failed.

The Site Today (September 8, 2026, 11:00 AM)

The second photo, taken from an elevated spot on the property looking back over the same ground, shows how much has changed in the roughly fifteen months since. The debris field and the wrecked shop are gone — that whole section has been cleared, graded, and turned back into usable yard and driveway.

Where the wreckage once sat, there's now a mounded dirt berm running along the base of the hill (likely holding back the remaining slide material), with a low stone retaining wall marking the edge of the driveway in the foreground. The driveway itself has been re-cut and is drivable, with a car parked partway up it. Off to the right, the property has clearly moved on to normal use again: a solar panel array is set up on a post, vehicles and a small tractor implement are parked near a shop-type building, and stacks of sorted rock and cinderblock sit staged nearby rather than scattered as rubble — material kept back for reuse. A dog sits in the yard, and the grass and fruit tree in the foreground show the place is lived-in and maintained again.

What the Photos Show Getting Done

Between the two shots, the work visible is: clearing the collapsed shop and downed trees, hauling out the debris pile, separating reusable material (stone/concrete) from junk, regrading and re-establishing the driveway, and rebuilding the yard's infrastructure (solar setup, parking area) on top of the cleared ground. What was a fresh disaster scene in May 2025 reads, by September 2026, as an active, functioning yard again — with a visible stockpile of salvaged stone/block still on hand, presumably for the next phase of work.

Ongoing Work

The cleanup isn't finished. Dirt from the slide is still being worked through — pulling remaining garbage and debris out of it — and the cleaned dirt is being moved to the back yard to level out the ground back there. So the front area shown in the September photo is largely squared away, but the back yard is now the active project, being built up and leveled with what's salvaged out of the slide dirt.

There's also no shop or dry covered space to work out of the weather, so as fall turns toward winter, this work has to keep pushing forward as long as outdoor conditions allow before the weather shuts it down.