Two huge stones, more than 20 meters across, came crashing down on either side of a home in Kvam Township Tuesday morning. The rocks stopped only few meters from the house. The rocks came to a stop on either side of the older home at Mundheim in Kvam Township. One of the rocks stopped only three meters from the house. «Luckily, no one was hurt,» said Sven Johannesen at Hordaland police district, TV 2 Nettavisen. «Both debris and dirt have fallen on the road, and the rocks are more than 20 meters across.» The road past the house, riksvei 48, is closed off due to debris, and traffic is redirected via Nordheimsund. The police received the call at 6:44 a.m. «If it had occurred three quarters of an hour later, there would have been lots of traffic on the road,» explained the neighbours. According to the neighbours, the house is owned by an elderly woman, who luckily was not home when the incident occurred. «I woke up because of it, it was a massive crash,» said the neighbour’s wife to TV 2 Nettavisen.

«I wondered if it was a fall from the roof, but since there is no snow there, I thought it was an earthquake.» Suddenly, the family heard a thump, and they came to understand that there was something that had bumped into something. Now they are just happy that no one was hurt during the dramatic incident.

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Wow! Timing is everything! I wonder if the elderly woman ever argued with her husband..... "No honey, we are not going to build the house there! We are going to build it here...I want the garden to be there!"

Wow.
I'd probably be a little paranoid after that.

Reminds me of the roadsigns in Smoky mountains... "Watch for falling rocks!"

That is a really wild story!!!

Check out these photos, and this story...more then a few big boulders fell here, Until you drive through the remains today it's hard to even comprehend:

On April 29, 1903, at 4:10 a.m., 82 million tonnes (30 million cubic metres) of limestone crashed from the summit of Turtle Mountain and buried a portion of the sleeping town of Frank, Alberta, Canada. The dimensions of the rock mass that fell are 150 metres (500 feet) deep, 425 metres (1,400 feet) high and one kilometre (3,280 feet) wide.

The bustling town of Frank was home to approximately 600 people in 1903. Of these, roughly 100 individuals lived in the path of the slide. An estimated 70 people were killed.

The primary cause of the Frank Slide was the mountain's unstable structure. Underground coal mining, water action in summit cracks and severe weather conditions may have contributed to the disaster.

The mechanism of movement that enabled the rockslide-avalanche to spread over 3 square kilometres (1.2 square miles) of the valley in less than 100 seconds, has been the subject of considerable discussion and speculation. The debris may have remained in contact with the surface through most of its course, flowing down the side of the mountain and across the valley. Or, lubrication at the base of the slide, compressed air or steam, would permit sliding of a flexible sheet of debris.

The buried section of railway was rebuilt 3 weeks after the slide. A road was completed through the slide in 1906 and improved during the 1920s. Before it was completed, people had to travel over a rough road built beyond the rockslide debris. This temporary route passed through what is now the Frank Slide Interpretive Centre parking lot and the Frank Slide Trail follows the old road bed for some distance. Highway #3, as it is seen today, was constructed in the 1930s and improved in 1979.

The elevation of the north peak of Turtle Mountain is 2,109 metres (6,920 feet) and of the south peak, 2,200 metres (7,217 feet).

The coal seam that was mined under the mountain is 3 - 7 metres (8 - 23 feet) thick, pitching at approximately an 85 degree angle. Look for an outcrop of the seam on the south side of the slide, halfway up the mountain.

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thats cool, good thing I dont live beside a mountain, If I did I'd be looking up more often

Good point Stix....it's hard to imagine a mountain falling but fact is >> it does happen....scarey!!!