Posted on 05/28/2024 2:19:46 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
By the looks of that slide, I ain’t buying it, either. A few people maybe, but not 2,000.
It is sobering. Last year a couple was killed by a rockslide or boulder that hit their rental truck broadside on the road into Yosemite. The odds are astronomical of that happening. If they would have lingered over breakfast for a second or two longer…. Or woke up earlier …
The park service put out a statement encouraging visitors to “beware of your surroundings” or similar. Sure, Jan. Sure.
Similar to a tragedy at The Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC a couple years ago. A family of four from up in New England, Boston I believe, on vacation, visiting the estate on a beautiful summer day. Right as they passed through the entrance archway, a tree came tumbling down onto the car, instantly killing the husband/father.
We live an hour away and in 17 years, have visited there well over a 100 times, and to think how that could have happened to us, to anybody. Yet sadly right at that moment, a few quick seconds, then a life lost.
“How many were cannibals?‘
Officially? None. Unofficially? Who knows.
And it’s dirt. No chance.
My grandfather dug himself out of an avalanche in the Colorado mountains when he was delivering mail. The first reports of February 24, 1897 said that he was killed.
From a bio of him I still have to get off my duff to put out.
Jack Bell had set out on a stormy day along a trail in the snow on the steep, mountain-side road that ran between Ouray, Colorado and Red Mountain. Reaching a spot famous for snowslides, he’d left his own horse to push the pack horse ahead that was carrying the mail. But just as he was returning to his own horse, he heard a sound known all too well. In moments, man and animals were swept down the cliff and that’s the last Jack knew for many hours. In the meantime, a man following that trail on foot saw what happened and managed to make it over the new mounds of snow to reach Ironton and give the alarm. Around thirty men came out by 11 a.m. to find the body, but only found one dead horse, and no sign of Jack. They searched until eight o’clock that night, then stopped with the plan to return the next day and try again.
Around six a.m. the next day, Jack Bell regained consciousness. The search party had been delayed by a severe, new storm and he was alone, buried under fifty feet of snow. What had saved him was the fact that he always traveled with a shovel in his hand, and the shovel had been over his face, giving him a breathing space. He found his arm to be sore, but not broken, and used the shovel to begin digging his way out. In twenty feet he hit the stream he had been hearing, and began digging along it and up toward the surface. The path was not straightforward, as he was constantly blocked by small boulders that he had to push aside or dig around. Sixty feet along the path, he finally broke free. He’d been under the snow for twenty-four hours. Exhausted, but knowing he had to get to shelter, Jack stumbled the two miles along the road to the toll house and collapsed in front of the house owner. He was saved.
Yeah me too. That’s all I can think of. Unless maybe 3 buses got caught up in it.
Wow. That is tough.
Have had quite a few close calls during my life. I guess the good Lord keeps me around for a reason, but don’t ask me why … LOL
How many billions is Biden going to send there to rescue dead people?
Of course 10% for the Big Guy.
I wonder if that’s a misfiled photograph. The steepness of the terrain, the surrounding area, if 20 people lived there it would be surprising, much less 200.
Was Biden’s uncle found in the belly of one of the dead?
And they were oblivious, until the flood came and swept them all away. So will it be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left... —Matthew 24:39-41
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