Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 Just been shown on the news that an avalanche has taken out a bunch of houses in the Joetsu region of Niigata........hope everyone is ok Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 It's actually more the actual mountain collapsing, Tubby, rather than just snow slide. In a small village area and not a ski resort. Happened a few days ago. Link to post Share on other sites
HeatherLocklearRocks 1 Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 Yikes Top tip: don't live near a mountain or a hill, don't live near a river (floods), don't like near the ocean (tsunami), don't live near a nuclear plant (goo), don't live near a fault line...... any more?! Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 That lot pretty much covers most of Japan there, Heather! Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into un-charted seas. Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer. At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due; it will want to rule and possess, and you with it! Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Yikes Top tip: don't live near a mountain or a hill, don't live near a river (floods), don't like near the ocean (tsunami), don't live near a nuclear plant (goo), don't live near a fault line...... any more?! I'm screwed on several fronts. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Haha yes me too. Don't live near the coast that's the only one that I clear in that list! Link to post Share on other sites
HighlyTrainedNovaTeacher 2 Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Link to post Share on other sites
tokabochi 9 Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 It is actually still moving about 20cm every hour and not stopping. Like a slow motion tsunami. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Yes exactly like that. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 15, 2012 Author Share Posted March 15, 2012 wow, thats mental. Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Except for tsunamis we too are pretty much screwed if any of those above mentioned should happen to break out! A slow moving land slide / avalanche wow that is different! Let's hope it stops soon for those who are in that area! Link to post Share on other sites
2pints-mate 0 Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 That's awful. Japan certainly seems to get more than it's fair share of nature bullying it. Link to post Share on other sites
joshnii 2 Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 good friend of mine who lives in joetsu, his brother lives very very close to this. They basically evacuated taking as many things they could. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 18, 2012 Author Share Posted March 18, 2012 has there been any casualties? Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 No, it's actually moving quite slowly so everyone had plenty of time to get out of it's path. Link to post Share on other sites
sanjo 2 Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 That's right - like slow motion - damage to property more. Link to post Share on other sites
igloo 3 Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Wonder what that sounded like when it happened as I presume there must have been an initial big breaking off.. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Wow, saw this on the news, but the pics are daunting nonetheless. Link to post Share on other sites
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