When an asset is no longer useful, it should be sold, traded, or discarded. The first step in recording the disposal of a plant asset is to update depreciation. Updating depreciation involves recording the depreciation expense for the time between the date on which depreciation was last recorded and the disposal date.
The largest mudslide in recorded history occurred just 140 miles south of Oso, on the slope of Mount St. Helens, when the volcano erupted in May 1980. The intense heat from the eruption instantly turned more than 70% of the snow and glacial ice on the mountain to water.
California mudslides happened as cellphone alerts went out More Many Californians in the area hit hardest by this week's deadly mudslides did not heed warnings for hours and days by emergency officials encouraging them to evacuate their homes â and then received cellphone alerts of imminent slides when the massive streams of debris were already heading toward them or had already hit their neighborhoods.