mass evacuation after landslide in Norway. people missing.

[Demovictory9]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9098647/Landslide-hits-Norway-sparking-mass-evacuation.html











https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/31/europe/norway-landslide-intl-hnk-scli/index.html


Photos of the site showed a large crater with destroyed buildings at the bottom of it. Other buildings hung on the edges of the crater, TV footage showed. Two more houses collapsed into the crater on Wednesday afternoon, broadcaster NRK reported.
Norway's King Harald said the landslide had made a deep impression on him.
"My thoughts are with all those who are affected, injured or have lost their homes and those who now live in fear and uncertainty of the full extent of the catastrophe," the 83-year-old monarch said in a statement released by the royal palace.
Helicopters continued to hover over the area as night fell, at times lowering emergency responders towards the debris of collapsed houses.
"There could be people trapped... but at the same time we can't be sure because it is the New Year's holiday, which means people could be elsewhere," Prime Minister Erna Solberg told reporters after visiting the site.

[efhmc]

1. This is so sad.

[Saboburns]

2. "Norway's King Harald said the landslide had made a deep impression on him."

Bad-ump-dump

[Towlie]

3. This reminds me of a great 2018 Norwegian movie called "The Quake".

 
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"The Quake" (Skjelvet)

I'll bet Norwegians are now thinking of that movie as well, along with the warning it carries about a possible disastrous earthquake in Oslo.

The Quake is a sequel to the 2015 movie, The Wave (Bølgen), which is also good.

[Baclava]

4. I blame the developers... "Oh honey, looks at the great views over the cliff"

[Hekate]

10. There was no cliff until now

[BusyBeingBest]

5. Top photo: how's that guy going to ever get his car back?

[Demovictory9]

9. Punch hole thru back of garage

[malaise]

6. This is a residential area

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/31/norway-landslide-missing#:~:text=The%20landslide%20struck%20a%20residential%20area%20in%20the%20municipality%20of,at%20the%20bottom%20of%20it.

[IcyPeas]

13. ... one of the largest clay slides in recent history....

Masses of earth are still moving in what has been one of the largest clay slides in recent Norwegian history, Toril Hofshagen, the regional head of the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, told a news conference.

Southern Norway has seen large amounts of precipitation in recent days, which may have caused the clay soil prevalent in the area to shift, broadcaster NRK said.

[malaise]

14. Spoke with my sis in Denmark

They have a small summer home in Norway and have been there. She says it was really bad and several people are missing.

[Tracer]

7. This looks more like a huge sink hole than a landslide.

Maybe it's a language difference, but to me a "landslide" is tons of rocks and dirt sliding off a mountainside.

[Hekate]

11. Same here

[IcyPeas]

12. from Malaise's post above - the article states:

Masses of earth are still moving in what has been one of the largest clay slides in recent Norwegian history, Toril Hofshagen, the regional head of the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, told a news conference.

Southern Norway has seen large amounts of precipitation in recent days, which may have caused the clay soil prevalent in the area to shift, broadcaster NRK said.

[malaise]

15. Reminds me of the landslides here in Gordon Town and Shooters' Hill here

in Jamaica in early November

[Delphinus]

8. I look at these

pictures and think of the sinkholes we get in Florida.