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Post by Phil on Jul 5, 2007 12:50:39 GMT -5
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Post by earlthekevin on Jul 5, 2007 20:45:35 GMT -5
That's not mud.
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Post by Blastgirl on Jul 5, 2007 23:48:53 GMT -5
Then what is it?
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Post by jesusaurus on Jul 6, 2007 0:40:31 GMT -5
crap- sorry it was too perfect  |
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Post by Slayzie on Jul 6, 2007 3:46:49 GMT -5
It was a landslide, not a mudslide. That's dry earth and rubble, not mud. But yeah. Landslides are pretty devastating too.
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Post by Phil on Jul 6, 2007 14:05:45 GMT -5
I was part of a crew to repair train tracks and the ground that supports the tracks following a land slide that was caused by a flood. That was about 10 years ago. The damage caused by all that is unreal.
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Post by grape on Jul 6, 2007 19:19:15 GMT -5
Most of that stuff happens in this city too. In Ixtapaluca there are landslides all the time. It really is a sad problem. People continuously lose their home because of this.
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Post by dannyboy on Jul 6, 2007 21:46:57 GMT -5
Is that a normal problem in Ixtapaluca? Do landslides usually follow heavy rain or hurricanes or any other kind of indications that something like this could happen?
What a terrible thing to have a landslide.
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Post by Kimm on Jul 7, 2007 10:47:43 GMT -5
I guess about 26 people died and around 40 or more got buried in that landslide.
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Post by grape on Jul 7, 2007 21:35:07 GMT -5
Well, its very common right now. It's rain season. Yesterday there was a hail storm and it hurt a lot.
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Post by earlthekevin on Jul 8, 2007 0:29:31 GMT -5
Caught a peice of hail once. Melted in my hands. I miss you jerry.  |
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Post by grape on Jul 8, 2007 17:12:50 GMT -5
Don't worry, there will always be another hail storm sometime.
Remember to keep the hail in the freezer.
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Post by Jersey on Jul 9, 2007 1:15:06 GMT -5
One big reason landslides and mudslides are happening more and more now is because of all the forest cutting going on. The roots of the trees usually keeps the dirt and debris in one place. But without the trees it has nothing to keep it down and a lot of rain can cause a mudslide or gravity/earthquakes can cause landslides. It isn't good.  |
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Post by Blastgirl on Jul 9, 2007 2:26:42 GMT -5
That's a good point Jersey. Excessive destruction of nature can have a severely damaging effect on other aspects of the environment.
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Post by scooterboo on Jul 9, 2007 3:00:15 GMT -5
Deforesting definatly effects slopes that never had trees on them!
Hills erode naterally.
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Post by Classicblast on Jul 9, 2007 11:56:26 GMT -5
My uncle had a cottage near a large lake and every so often three or four feet near the edge of his property would drop to the beach.
(he wasn't on the beach, he was on a hill at a higher elevation looking toward the beach.)
I haven't been out there in years but I'd be willing to guess that the property is has donated 15 feet to the beach over the last 25 years.
And that's not even a steep hill like the one shown. That's a much more gradual angle.
In 2002 we were on a baseball road trip and we encountered a falling rock situation where our busdriver almost lost out bus.
We were going through a mountain area and it even posted signs that said "Falling rock zone" (however many miles) but I had never been there before when it was actually happening.
That time rocks rolled down the mountain. Obviously not as badly as the article but one of the boulders hit the bus and forced us across the double yellows and the driver had to be a pretty good wheel man. It was anxious for a few moments, and some smaller boulders were hitting the bus but he got it back for us and saved us.
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