A mudslide that occurred on the 10000 block of 47th Ave. s.w. in the early morning hours of Dec. 28 closed the road and drew media attention with the King5 helicopter hovering over the scene.

David Roser, a neighbor said it was a broken pipe from a sprinkler system and said, "A lesson to be learned is that during the winter you turn off your sprinker system. (...)The wind was blowing in the middle of the night (...) there's no protection from the Olympics we're a little south of that and the storms kind of funnel up here and we get more wind than a lot of folks. What happened here is that a tree snapped a water line."

The mud is up to a foot deep over the road.

Roser, wore a headlamp and went up the hill, found the broken pipe and shut off the water main where the water was coming from.

The Seattle Fire Department had been to the scene and left.

SDOT crews were on the scene early and said they were letting residents out but not in.

A vacuum truck was on its way to clean up the mud since as one SDOT person said, "it's too mucky to go in a dump truck."

To see a large photo of the mucky mess click on the photo link above.