Avalanche!

[Spalpeen]

I'm surprised this didn't get a mention in the local news. The whole hillside next to the Bali Hai lighthouse has collapsed and slipped down onto the road. Looks like it happened within the last few days and it also looks like it hasn't finished slipping yet. This isn't the smaller slips that happened last year. This is much bigger.

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[dogleg]

Is the road open to traffic still?

Thanks for info.

[Spalpeen]

Is the road open to traffic still?

Thanks for info.

Half the road is still open, if you don't mind driving along the foot of an unfinished landslide. In 99% of countries the road would have been closed.

[BB1950]

Yep, it looks to slide further unless they put in a retaining wall. It's the weight of the land that slid that's keeping it from sliding further. It still looks dangerous. They should have put up a retaining wall when they built the road a few years back. Hey TIT, who thinks about safety? The slope is too steep. I wonder what triggered it, there's been no rain recently. Thanks for the photos.

[qdinthailand]

Avalanche? Where's the snow?

Looks like a land slide to me.

qdinthailand

[JohnC]

avalanche (āv'ə-lānch') Pronunciation Key

The sudden fall or slide of a large mass of material down the side of a mountain. Avalanches may contain snow, ice, rock, soil, or a mixture of these materials. Avalanches can be triggered by changes in temperature, by sound vibrations, or by vibrations in the earth itself.

[Spalpeen]

avalanche (āv'ə-lānch') Pronunciation Key

The sudden fall or slide of a large mass of material down the side of a mountain. Avalanches may contain snow, ice, rock, soil, or a mixture of these materials. Avalanches can be triggered by changes in temperature, by sound vibrations, or by vibrations in the earth itself.

Top man! See also 'Bogalanche' for the Irish version of an avalanche.

[KittenKong]

Lumps of earth and rock have been sliding off that for years. At various times they have put some special heavy-duty plastic retaining mesh in place to reduce it, and it seems to have been fairly effective.

[Spalpeen]

Lumps of earth and rock have been sliding off that for years. At various times they have put some special heavy-duty plastic retaining mesh in place to reduce it, and it seems to have been fairly effective.

Go have a look at it now. The whole slope has failed and when the rains start it's liable to end up in the sea. Walking the footpath at the top of the slope is quite scary. Look carefully at my first photograph. What looks like small cliffs at the top centre show where the whole side of the hill has slipped down.

[gmac]

avalanche (āv'ə-lānch') Pronunciation Key

The sudden fall or slide of a large mass of material down the side of a mountain. Avalanches may contain snow, ice, rock, soil, or a mixture of these materials. Avalanches can be triggered by changes in temperature, by sound vibrations, or by vibrations in the earth itself.

The key word would appear to be 'mountain' and even the OP only referred to the place where it occurred as a hillside. Landslip or landslide is surely more appropriate.

[Spalpeen]

avalanche (āv'ə-lānch') Pronunciation Key

The sudden fall or slide of a large mass of material down the side of a mountain. Avalanches may contain snow, ice, rock, soil, or a mixture of these materials. Avalanches can be triggered by changes in temperature, by sound vibrations, or by vibrations in the earth itself.

The key word would appear to be 'mountain' and even the OP only referred to the place where it occurred as a hillside. Landslip or landslide is surely more appropriate.

F*#ks sake! If the pedantic discussion of the word 'avalanche' is all you have to do you must lead a seriously dull life. Unstick yourself from the keyboard and go down and have a look at it.

[qdinthailand]

Every definition on my end says essentially the same thing:

Avalanche: a large mass of snow, ice, etc., detached from a mountain slope and sliding or falling suddenly downward.

You were the one misused avalanche, Spalpeen, So yes, we get to discuss your misuse of the term and you have to issue a mea culpa.

qdinthailand

[Spalpeen]

Every definition on my end says essentially the same thing:

Avalanche: a large mass of snow, ice, etc., detached from a mountain slope and sliding or falling suddenly downward.

You were the one misused avalanche, Spalpeen, So yes, we get to discuss your misuse of the term and you have to issue a mea culpa.

qdinthailand

Boring beyond words.

[raro]

The next semantics nitpicker will find himself in a straightjacket for a couple of days.

Thanks a lot to the OP for pointing out this apparent danger and yes, th the title of the thread tickled my interest.

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