Retaining wall destroyed by landslide - GIF

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Retaining wall destroyed by landslide.




Previously:

Bingham Canyon mine landslide - GIF
Car driver and passenger survive landslide - GIF
Excavator bangs ground to cause landslide - GIF
Jade mine landslide - GIF
Landslide caught on camera - GIF
Landslide causes a train derailment - GIF

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New linux mint 22.2 OS, grrrrrr.

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Looks more like they are putting up forms for a concrete wall, that me thinks would never survive that surcharge of earth, EVER! But this has an engineer approval, I'm sure.
But someone's crop of corn, will maybe get picked.

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The answer is plain and simple: Avoid Landslides Areas. California cliffside homes by the beach are collapsing!

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But it's ocean/river front view property, never mind that erosion, we got a structural wall (engineering plans with PE stamp) for that.
I grew up in a town that every spring had a flood, and I swore I would never live in a flood plane ever. But straight line winds, can happen anywhere, but I survived that with only one roof loosing shingles (and they needed to be replaced 5 years earlier), so that was my fault.
On the flooding town, it had a history of a big flood back in 1897, all caused by odd late spring blizzards, with heavy snow falls all winter. So there was an area that was kept away from, as it was in the annual flood plane. But you know developers got the city council to put up a dike in 1950s, and had mostly only basement flooding of those until another big one in 1987 (100 years later) wipe out the whole downtown, and that diked area is now back to a flood plane. It was the Red River flowing up into Canada from MN/ND river. The land is flat there, very flat all the way to lake Hudson in Canada. So when you get a huge winter snow fall, that delays melting till late spring, then the temperature turns around and melts that all in days, it has no where to go but flood miles of land. Interesting that Winnipeg Manatoba had multiple issues of death from that flooding river, and put in a huge drain canal around the city in the 1950s, it sat unused for years, until that 1987 flood protected the city from a major event, that Grand Forks, ND and East Grand Forks, MN (as well Fargo,ND and Moorhead,MN further to the south of the Canadian border) were decimated by the event.