The homes and infrastructure suffered more than $70 million of damage. FEMA and the state of Washington offered to buy out 127 homeowners at 30 cents on the dollar. This was the second largest landslide disaster in US history involving homes on a landslide. The largest was the 1956 Portuguese Bend landslide in Palos Verdes Hills of Southern California, when 130 homes were destroyed. All but eleven homeowners took the offer accepting the risk that the upper ridge of possibly reactivating. The federal government has removed all of the purchased homes.