Ah Pook
05-27-2014, 19:40
That's a big slide.
Full story at the link.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_25837954/officials-expect-grand-mesa-mudslide-by-air-three
COLLBRAN — Town Marshal Adam Appelhanz normally makes sure his patrol car is clean and buffed for the annual Memorial Day procession down Main Street of this town of 400.
But this Memorial Day, Appelhanz's vehicle was coated and spattered with mud, all the way to the windshields, as he followed behind a small cadre of flag-waving, rifle-carrying veterans on their slow walk through town from the Collbran Servicewomen's Memorial.
Appelhanz, like many folks in this ranching community located high on the Grand Mesa above Grand Junction, had been out on Salt Creek Road helping with a search for three local men missing in a nearby mudslide. That mudslide isn't spoken of around here without the adjective "massive" attached.
http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site36/2014/0526/20140526__CD27SLIDE456%7Ep1_200.jpg (http://www.denverpost.com/portlet/article/html/imageDisplay.jsp?contentItemRelationshipId=5981642 )A photograph from the air of the mud slide on the Grand Mesa near Grand Junction Colorado on Monday, May 26, 2014. (Aaron Ontiveroz, Denver Post)
The slide was more than 3 miles long, a half-mile wide and as deep as 250 feet. It dwarfs the mudslide that buried a subdivision and killed 41 people in Oso, Wash., in March.
But this mudslide occurred in a remote, rugged area that is partially on U.S. Forest Service land and partially on private ground. Three gas wells were in the slide's path, but no structures. No other people were believed to be in an area that is fenced off to the public.
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Full story at the link.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_25837954/officials-expect-grand-mesa-mudslide-by-air-three
COLLBRAN — Town Marshal Adam Appelhanz normally makes sure his patrol car is clean and buffed for the annual Memorial Day procession down Main Street of this town of 400.
But this Memorial Day, Appelhanz's vehicle was coated and spattered with mud, all the way to the windshields, as he followed behind a small cadre of flag-waving, rifle-carrying veterans on their slow walk through town from the Collbran Servicewomen's Memorial.
Appelhanz, like many folks in this ranching community located high on the Grand Mesa above Grand Junction, had been out on Salt Creek Road helping with a search for three local men missing in a nearby mudslide. That mudslide isn't spoken of around here without the adjective "massive" attached.
http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site36/2014/0526/20140526__CD27SLIDE456%7Ep1_200.jpg (http://www.denverpost.com/portlet/article/html/imageDisplay.jsp?contentItemRelationshipId=5981642 )A photograph from the air of the mud slide on the Grand Mesa near Grand Junction Colorado on Monday, May 26, 2014. (Aaron Ontiveroz, Denver Post)
The slide was more than 3 miles long, a half-mile wide and as deep as 250 feet. It dwarfs the mudslide that buried a subdivision and killed 41 people in Oso, Wash., in March.
But this mudslide occurred in a remote, rugged area that is partially on U.S. Forest Service land and partially on private ground. Three gas wells were in the slide's path, but no structures. No other people were believed to be in an area that is fenced off to the public.
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