Grenoble to Briançon (D1091) closed

[briantrumpet]

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/

 

[rich p]

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?

 

[ColinJ]

I don't think it would be a good weekend to go sailing on that lake ...!

 

[briantrumpet]

Is that you in the red coat?

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.

 

[Blue Hills]

The things folk will do for a selfie, second of social media fame.

Thanks for starting this thread, OP, i had plans to go this way in the future.

 

[briantrumpet]

Rather a nice photo here, accompanying an article today suggesting that there will be a portion fall off today (it's now moving at a metre per day), with the major fall being tomorrow evening. I'm not sure I'd feel terribly happy about living in the village perched halfway up that slope, even if the geologists are saying it's safe.

 

[briantrumpet]

Should be happening round now ... the sirens are going... http://www.dici.fr/actu/2015/07/04/...nent-annonce-vers-15h-sirenes-retentir-614596

 

[briantrumpet]

This looks like it'll be updated ... still anticipated this evening... looking forward to seeing the video, if it happens in daylight. http://www.ledauphine.com/faits-divers/2015/07/03/le-terrain-glisse-a-la-vitesse-d-un-metre-par-jour

 

[psmiffy]

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.

So did it happen?

 

[briantrumpet]

So did it happen?

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.php

I suppose you could call this a cliffhanger.

 

[psmiffy]

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.php

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

 

[briantrumpet]

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!!

 

[psmiffy]

Bring on the missiles!!

Would be interesting - estimated slip volume is 800k cu.m - so around 1.5M Tonnes of rock to bring down - how much TNT?

 

[ColinJ]

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.)

 

[briantrumpet]

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.)

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.