Almost completely encased in mud, Gary "Mac" McPherson could only move his right arm. The 81-year-old and his wife, Linda, 69, had been reading the morning paper in matching reclining chairs in their living room when a landslide slammed into their Oso, Wash., home Saturday, pushing their house 150 yards and filling it with thick mud and debris. "He doesn't remember the impact of the mud," his daughter Kate McPherson tells the Los Angeles Times. "He doesn't remember the house going across the pasture … He took six breaths and calmed himself down. He thought, and he started digging." A ceiling beam lay across his lap,...
- 3/28/2014
- by K.C. Blumm
- PEOPLE.com
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