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That's happens from time to time in young*mountain ranges. I think it's quite common* in newzealand from memory for example
*Geologically young.
Happens a fair bit.
There's some village in Switzerland that's recently been evacuated as the mountain behind it is about to collapse. Half the buildings in town are already cracked in two.
A few years back in South Tirol there was a massive, house sized lump that broke off and careered down the valley, narrowly missing a house, but hitting the garage.
Salzburg has a group of rock climbing geologists whose job it is to climb around the crags overhanging the city and either securing then or knocking off the precarious bits.
A friend bought a house a few years ago at 1200m up in the Swiss Alps. Lovely location, but unfortunately his neighbours land above is encroaching onto his. They're having to spend thousands to secure the hillside, but it's ultimately just prolonging the inevitable.
Florida is sinking and lots of folka are selling up according to an American couple I met last week in France.
Interesting times. We're looking to buy a place in the continent within the next few years. Italy has always been high on the list of potential places, but the peninsula is supposedly going to be one of the most hardest hit areas in Europe. The mediterran microclimate is likely to suffer the most extreme changes due to its quasi landlocked position between Africa and Europe.
That’s happens from time to time in young*mountain ranges. I
Seems to be getting more common in the Alps as permafrost melts and glaciers retreat.
Last week Facebook had decided that I liked watching boulders roll off mountains. The effects of a house sized lump of mountain hitting a house was sobering.
The effects of a house sized lump of mountain hitting a house was sobering.
Yeah, the weight difference is significant, 2500 tonnes Vs 25 tonnes...
Salzburg has a group of rock climbing geologists whose job it is to climb around the crags overhanging the city and either securing then or knocking off the precarious bits.
They do it round here too.
Have a look at Frank Slide on the BC/AB border in Canada. Drove past it a fair few times when in spent some time in Sparwood down the road.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Slide
Seems to bedefinitely getting more common in the Alps as permafrost melts and glaciers retreat.
Ftfy.
We had two transit van sized boulders fall off the cliff behind our hotel and land just outside reception a few days before we arrived in Gran Canaria. All cordoned off.
Happened in Yorkshire in 1912...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseberry_Topping
Gah, how do you link an image these days? I give in.
I did not know that. Thanks for that.
And another one's gone
And another one's gone
- Mountain turned to dust, yeeeah!
Florida is sinking and lots of folka are selling up according to an American couple I met last week in France.
Lots of folks would be wise to leave Florida for a variety of reasons, there’s de Satanist, there’s the regular hurricane season, then there’s the increasing inability for insurance companies to be able to fund the repairs to homes damaged or destroyed by said hurricanes. Oh, then there’s the rising sea levels. I mean, who would want to live in a State like that?
That Swiss village was extraordinarily lucky to get away with just one building destroyed. I liked this quote:
The area had been declared a danger zone of the highest level possible, forcing the closure of two roads and a train line. Risk assessors also deemed the start of the 6th leg of the Tour de Suisse bike race from Le Pont to Chur to be too close to the danger zone on Friday, and ordered its relocation from Chur to Oberwil-Lieli in Aargau canton instead. The loss of a 40-mile (60-kilometre) section of the race drew the ire of some of the riders.
What a shame for those riders, sucks to be them; maybe the organisers can introduce some variety by including an off-road section across the rubble field, just for the shits’n’giggles… 🙄