Originally published at: Caught on video: nightmarish rockslide takes out bridge | Boing Boing
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standing there and filming doesn’t seem like the best idea. and judging by what it did to that bridge not sure that window you moved behind is going to do much good. jeez.
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When the Earth moves, you get the hell out’a the way.
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Those boulders had impeccable aim.
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Something, something,m people who live in flimsy houses shouldn’t film stones.
Something, something, when nature gives you bouncing boulders, you make tracks pronto!
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Going inside behind that pane of glass isn’t going to provide any additional protection. The really safe action would be to stop filming and hightail it out there, but you can’t outrun a landslide. If you’re already standing there in the path of a rockslide with no safe exit strategy, might as well film it.
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The live action version of Angry Birds is intense!
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Sometimes the only option is to go full-Robert Landsburg and just document the disaster for others to see.
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Exactly - when you’re in the middle of the incoming herd of boulders, running won’t help, if a rock big enough to kill you is coming, you’re done, and the window won’t make a difference either way.
On the other hand, there’s also a lot of smaller pebbles, and dust clouds that the window might save you the annoyance of being pelted with the non-deadly very small rocks while you record the landslide.
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I would have run across the bridge and taken shelter beside the river bank - seems like most debris would roll overhead. But that last flying rock that took out the bridge… the energy in that was something else.
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I was hiking above Moraine Lake in Banff National Park, and we stopped near the base of a glacier (about an eighth of a mile away). Some of the boulders at the base of the moraine there were quite literally the size of small houses. The quiet was interrupted by what sounded like a howitzer going off, and a rock avalanche began. Fortunately, no one was at the base of the moraine, but human sized boulders from above began raining down. They were contained mostly to natural spread of the moraine, but it was sobering to think that had we gone hiking to the glacier that would have been it.
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I recently learned that a retaining wall doesn’t have to hold all the dirt behind it - just the dirt that doesn’t fit into the “angle of repose” area.
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