After the Flood

  • Southern Baptist Disaster Relief worked to dig out the mud flows. [photo by Gil Karson]

    Southern Baptist Disaster Relief worked to dig out the mud flows. [photo by Gil Karson]

How one man is coping after the July 18 mudslide Part 2 of 4 parts

Continued from August 28 issue of The Mountain Enterprise

By Patric Hedlund

Gil Karson says he is in the middle of a Sherlock Holmes mystery as he tries to learn who and what caused the flooding at his home, and how to prevent it from happening again.

Meanwhile, he is grateful for the help he received in the early stages of digging his Frazier Park house out from tons of mud.

The Red Cross collected the names of those in…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

Photo captions:

The day after the flood, mud covered the back of the house up to the window sill.

Gil Karson

Gil Karson shows his house restored, mud removed.

Southern Baptist Disaster Relief worked to dig out the mud flows.

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This is part of the September 11, 2015 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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