briantrumpet
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They reckon 2 miliion tonnes of hill will be sliding into the lake this weekend. The slippage has accelerated to 60cm a day. http://www.lemedia05.com/2015/24170...t-de-terrain-devrait-se-produire-ce-week-end/
Is that you in the red coat?They reckon 2 miliion tonnes of hill will be sliding into the lake this weekend. The slippage has accelerated to 60cm a day. http://www.lemedia05.com/2015/24170...t-de-terrain-devrait-se-produire-ce-week-end/
Haha. I did a double-take when I zoomed in and realised that someone was just a few feet from 2 million tonnes of sliding mountain.Is that you in the red coat?
According to the latest models, 100,000 m³ should therefore fall into the night and the rest of the 800 000 m³ of earth by Sunday evening.
A few hundred tonnes have splashed into the lake, but still no biggie. The locals really want this to happen now, so that they can get on with assessing what to do next, and their worst fear is that it just carries on with a few hundred tonnes here and a few hundred tonnes there, with the mountain just shifting. They are now saying (hoping) that it'll be "this week". http://www.lepoint.fr/environnement...s-la-chute-finale-06-07-2015-1942847_1927.phpSo did it happen?
Trouble is in my experience that is exactly what does happen in this sort of slip - tends to toddle slowly downhill rather than in an almighty whooshA few hundred tonnes have splashed into the lake, but still no biggie. The locals really want this to happen now, so that they can get on with assessing what to do next, and their worst fear is that it just carries on with a few hundred tonnes here and a few hundred tonnes there, with the mountain just shifting. They are now saying (hoping) that it'll be "this week". http://www.lepoint.fr/environnement...s-la-chute-finale-06-07-2015-1942847_1927.php
Bring on the missiles!!Trouble is in my experience that is exactly what does happen in this sort of slip - tends to toddle slowly downhill rather than in an almighty whoosh
Bring on the missiles!!
ERDF (the infrastructure part of EDF) which manages the lake, says no. The water level has already been reduced substantially because of some issues with the dam, but the wave resulting from the slippage has been forecast to be 2-4m high, so no threat, according to them.If it all did go at the same time, could a resultant lake tsunami cause havoc in the area? (I don't know if there are nearby villages which could get swamped.)