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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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1 posted on 02/01/2014 5:31:34 PM PST by rickmichaels
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To: rickmichaels
Check out this video.
2 posted on 02/01/2014 5:35:11 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: rickmichaels

IF I was them,
I’d be high-tailing it to Monte Carlo


3 posted on 02/01/2014 5:36:02 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: rickmichaels

the very last photo...

http://wpmedia.news.nationalpost.com/2014/01/italy_landslide-1_edited-11.jpg?w=940&h=529

gives on the clue that they knew of the likelihood of the later boulders ataking that same route.

Im glad they fared as well as they did though.


4 posted on 02/01/2014 5:36:31 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: NormsRevenge

considering their “luck” at gambling on not being annihilated?...


5 posted on 02/01/2014 5:37:48 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I can see Brad Pitt in

A Boulder Rumbles thru Now and Then

SEismo-Seats available!


6 posted on 02/01/2014 5:38:41 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: rickmichaels

rock and roll


7 posted on 02/01/2014 5:40:02 PM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....nearly 2,000 years and still working today!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I’d be curious to learn what induces those boulders to take nearly the same path.


8 posted on 02/01/2014 5:40:07 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

Italy, China, same diff...


9 posted on 02/01/2014 5:40:55 PM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: MeshugeMikey

looking at the size, I’m assuming they will landscape around those boulders.


10 posted on 02/01/2014 5:41:16 PM PST by soupbone1
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To: MeshugeMikey

The House always wins in the end.

Talk about close ones tho.


11 posted on 02/01/2014 5:41:21 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: 1rudeboy

the topography Id think.. the lay of the land.

the most simple route possible


12 posted on 02/01/2014 5:42:46 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: soupbone1

as they did with the field in the foreground of the last photo.

http://wpmedia.news.nationalpost.com/2014/01/italy_landslide-1_edited-11.jpg?w=940&h=529


13 posted on 02/01/2014 5:44:24 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: NormsRevenge

I didnt carefully read the article, which may have mentioned at what time of the day these boulders came to rest, but I’d hope it wasnt while the family was asleep...


14 posted on 02/01/2014 5:45:58 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: rickmichaels

"whoa"

15 posted on 02/01/2014 5:55:19 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: rickmichaels
Here's the REAL photo. No link required.


16 posted on 02/01/2014 5:58:33 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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Funny.

J was driving down Bear Creek Road in 1979 and just as I approached sleep Bear Creek and Hgwy 17 there was a huge boulder on the side of the road with a Fiat resting atop of it, as if it were placed there.

Never heard how it happened


17 posted on 02/01/2014 6:03:00 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: null and void; 1rudeboy
the boulder in the foreground of the last shot is from an older landslide

i guess they never wondered how that BFR got there

18 posted on 02/01/2014 6:30:18 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: rickmichaels

Gravity doesn’t like grapes.


19 posted on 02/01/2014 6:30:25 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: bigheadfred

Me? I would have built the house with the BFR between me and the slope, rather than on top of the anvil...


20 posted on 02/01/2014 6:33:41 PM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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