"whoa"
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 ...
IF I was them,
I’d be high-tailing it to Monte Carlo
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.
considering their “luck” at gambling on not being annihilated?...
I can see Brad Pitt in
A Boulder Rumbles thru Now and Then
SEismo-Seats available!
rock and roll
I’d be curious to learn what induces those boulders to take nearly the same path.
Italy, China, same diff...
looking at the size, I’m assuming they will landscape around those boulders.
The House always wins in the end.
Talk about close ones tho.
the topography Id think.. the lay of the land.
the most simple route possible
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
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...
"whoa"
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
i guess they never wondered how that BFR got there
Gravity doesn’t like grapes.
Me? I would have built the house with the BFR between me and the slope, rather than on top of the anvil...
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