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.
I can see Brad Pitt in
A Boulder Rumbles thru Now and Then
SEismo-Seats available!
I’d be curious to learn what induces those boulders to take nearly the same path.
looking at the size, I’m assuming they will landscape around those boulders.