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Photos show one Italian family’s near-miss after giant boulders smashed one metre from house
National Post ^ | Jan. 31, 2014 | National Post Staff

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...


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To: MeshugeMikey

There is a third boulder near the road, two fields down, to the photo’s right.


21 posted on 02/01/2014 6:34:49 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: rickmichaels

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.....”


22 posted on 02/01/2014 6:35:52 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: rickmichaels

They should examine it for moss.


23 posted on 02/01/2014 6:37:04 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: rickmichaels

Doesn’t a ‘near miss’ mean a hit?


24 posted on 02/01/2014 6:37:54 PM PST by twyn1
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
yep I see all three of em.


25 posted on 02/01/2014 6:52:19 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: rickmichaels

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?


26 posted on 02/01/2014 6:54:47 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MeshugeMikey

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.


27 posted on 02/01/2014 8:50:20 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: MeshugeMikey
ever play horseshoes? there's close and then..


ap SFGate.com

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.

28 posted on 02/02/2014 9:45:58 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: NormsRevenge

Looks like God playing marbles.


29 posted on 02/02/2014 9:47:05 AM PST by dfwgator
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