KPLU.org - 3/28/13, AP
Credit Washington Department of Natural Resources
At 4:15 a.m. Wednesday along Driftwood Way in the Ledgewood Beach Community in Coupeville, Whidbey Island, residents awoke to a noise that sounded like thunder or a sonic boom.
Twenty properties on a scenic island hillside were damaged by the massive landslide in Washington state that displaced 200,000 cubic yards of earth, or about 40,000 dump truck loads, officials said Thursday.
Not all the affected properties suffered structural damage — some lost portions of their yards, said Christopher Schwarzen, a Snohomish County spokesman drafted to assist Island County.
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