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Dateline NBC

No Way Out

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Beautiful Montecito, California, seems like the last place disaster wouldn't strike. But four families, along with their whole community, are about to find out otherwise. Keith Morrison reports in this Dateline classic. Originally aired on NBC on April 15, 2018.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It sounded like the earth being ripped apart, just violently being ripped apart.

0:06.0

And the windows were shaking, the floor was vibrating, and it had a roar.

0:11.0

It was just get everyone and get out.

0:18.0

It devoured California's perfect paradise.

0:22.0

A bunch of water came down and boulders, and it swept my vehicle down.

0:26.0

The Monster Munch Slide, that roar down the mountain.

0:29.0

I heard the most horrendous kind of a hole.

0:35.0

I see the garage getting taken apart this huge wall of mud, and it's just coming down fast.

0:41.0

It was on top of us, it was on top of the whole neighborhood.

0:44.0

Unstoppable.

0:46.0

It's nothing I could do.

0:47.0

I want to get out and save my children.

0:49.0

Unbelievable.

0:50.0

I pray for everyone here.

0:52.0

My first thought was, well, walking throughout death.

0:55.0

You're powerless.

0:56.0

You can't do anything against it.

0:58.0

Inside the mud slide.

1:01.0

There were people that needed help.

1:03.0

Had to keep going.

1:04.0

You feel that despair?

1:06.0

Right away?

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