Posted on 01/10/2022 3:53:26 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
Ten people have been killed after part of a cliff collapsed onto leisure boats on a Brazilian lake.
Another 32 were injured in the accident in the south-east of the country.
Video circulating online shows the moment the rock detaches from the cliff face as onlookers try to yell warnings to the boats beneath.
At least one of the boats appears to have sunk, while others managed to escape from the huge wave the falling rock created.
The collapse at 11:00 local time (14:00 GMT) followed days of rain in Minas Gerais state, which had made the cliffs more susceptible to collapse, local fire officials told reporters.
“That piece will fall out,” a woman can be heard saying in a video of the accident. “Get out of there,” warns another, before the cliff collapses onto the boats.
Three vessels were hit by falling rock, Lieutenant Pedro Aihara told reporters. Out of the 32 injured, nine people were in hospital.
Twenty people were initially reported missing, but Lt Aihara said most were accounted for after checking hospital lists.
Alessandra Barbosa told news outlet EPTV that she is seeking news of her uncles, who were spending the weekend at the site and decided to take a boat tour of the cliff.
“I called local hospitals. So far I haven’t had any information about them. We are distressed, very concerned,” she said.
“We get nervous because we have no information and it’s family, right? Family is everything to us.”
Authorities are now trying to identify those killed, with their bodies badly damaged in the collapse.
“Authorities are now trying to identify those killed, with their bodies badly damaged in the collapse.”
Oh my. One can imagine the poor forensic workers having nightmares for the rest of their lives.
Several years ago a sightseeing party here in Alaska had the toe of a glacier collapse on them.
It was worse than that.
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Those people were screaming for them to get out of there for almost a minute. No one did.
Seriously, dude?
Rock the Boat
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There always has to be at least one ignorant MFer.
If they’ve dealt with bad vehicular accidents or plane crashes, they’ve seen worse. There are lots of ugly ways to die. The silver lining is that spectacularly ugly often means instantaneous.
I’ve watched a few different videos on this thing; all of them show several smaller rockfalls before the big collapse.
I cannot fathom what others were thinking; the moment the SECOND, larger rockfall came down, if I’m Skipper, I’m FULL throttle the Hell AWAY from that cliff face. I’ll look stupid if nothing happens, but BE ALIVE if something does.
MULTIPLE boats just sit bobbing around as one, two, then three separate rockfalls hit the drink. A couple had begun to tentatively edge away, but by then there was NO way for them to avoid being swamped, if not crushed, when the main piece came down.
One video from a boat farther away shows people whistling and trying to get the attention of boats closer to the cliff. In another video from one of those nearer vessels, you can hear the whistling and yelling, but nobody aboard seems to be looking to figure out why they’re whistling.
Reminded me WAY the Hell too much of a herd of cattle munching their cuds in a field.
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