Could you have a rocky trip?

[Robert W]

Who has photographed a rock slide? Some have videos of them. When you are in areas where slides are happening, just be careful and keep this video in mind.

 

[1srelluc]

During the Nelson County, Virginia flood of '69 (Hurricane Camille) a boulder twice that size slid off the mountain and ended-up in the James River....It was carried for miles.

I had a co-worker who lost his entire family in a landslide then.

The Storm That Swallowed a County

In late August, 1969, Hurricane Camille produced a once-in-10,000-years inland storm with the strength of a 40,000-megaton nuclear bomb that nearly destroyed Nelson County, Va.

blueridgecountry.com

 

[Meister]

Amazing, thanks for sharing!

 

[westwall]

Who has photographed a rock slide? Some have videos of them. When you are in areas where slides are happening, just be careful and keep this video in mind.

I'm a geologist, I have witnessed loads of rock falls.

Some of which I initiated!

 

[okfine]

I'm a geologist, I have witnessed loads of rock falls.

Some of which I initiated!

I bet you have...

 

[westwall]

I bet you have...

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Nah, look up "trundling" a favored pastime of geologists everywhere.

 

[Robert W]

During the Nelson County, Virginia flood of '69 (Hurricane Camille) a boulder twice that size slid off the mountain and ended-up in the James River....It was carried for miles.

I had a co-worker who lost his entire family in a landslide then.

The Storm That Swallowed a County

In late August, 1969, Hurricane Camille produced a once-in-10,000-years inland storm with the strength of a 40,000-megaton nuclear bomb that nearly destroyed Nelson County, Va.

blueridgecountry.com

When I lived in CA, CA had plenty of rock slides, especially on highway 101 and around San Francisco. A major road was closed for a long time.

 

[westwall]

When I lived in CA, CA had plenty of rock slides, especially on highway 101 and around San Francisco. A major road was closed for a long time.

Hwy 1 is the king of rock slides in Cali.