Posted on 02/01/2014 5:31:34 PM PST by rickmichaels
A huge boulder narrowly missed one extremely lucky Italian family’s farmhouse, clearing their home by less than a metre but wiping out a barn and coming to stop in the middle of a vineyard.
Just-released photos show a second boulder, detached during the same January 23 landslide, stopping next to the house.
The family living in the house, in Ronchi di Termeno in Northern Italy, were reportedly unharmed.
And it’s not the first time the house has been the subject of a narrow miss — the boulder in the foreground of the last shot is from an older landslide.
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There is a third boulder near the road, two fields down, to the photo’s right.
If you look at the third photo, you can see the squished remains of Chuck The Chicken whose famous last words were, “That’s the biggest damn grape I’ve ever seen rolling down a hi.....”
They should examine it for moss.
Doesn’t a ‘near miss’ mean a hit?
If you go to the 5th and 6th pics at the link, there’s one of the rocks that just came down the hill, right next to a large rock that had obviously been there a while.
Did no one wonder how that got there?
It looks like two rocks made a recent roll down the hill. Check out the one that stopped just short of the back of the house.
narrowly missed a farmhouse, destroyed a barn and came to a stop in vineyards.
A second boulder stopped just feet (about a meter) behind the traditional stone farmhouse in the rocky region of Alto-Adige.
Looks like God playing marbles.
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