Chilcotin Slide

[lovemywinchester]

Could be years if left to natural forces .

I don't think it will. I have watched a lot of footage of dams being decommissioned throughout the US. It happens very quickly once the water starts flowing it pushes everything out. Watch the Sandy river dam removal video. They had estimates of up to a few weeks for the river to flush out and it happened in a few hours.
The Elwah dam was removed in Wash and salmon were upstream of the old dam sites in a day or two. Pretty wild what water can do.


https://www.google.com/search?q=dam+...vU0a45kws,st:0

[Monashee]

Yes the aerial view shows it better and I admit to not knowing a dam thing about it

So the slide material looks solid but with enough water seeping in with pressure and gravity then it becomes fluid and the release begins . Scary how many areas in BC prone to this .. those mountains are always falling down .

[Gr8 white hunter]

"Right to Self-government" "Right to Self-government" "Right to Self-government" "Sovereign Nation" "Sovereign Nation" "Sovereign Nation"

Until shit hits the fan and reality sinks in

100% "your land"you fix the problem start digging.

[mike31154]

Geologists take on cause(s)

[wideopenthrottle]

i shook my head when i read how they wanted the govt to step in and deal with the rampant drug problems and the effect on their society....um like they did when they set up residential schools for alcohol problems a few generations ago....

[IronNoggin]

[Walking Buffalo]

How many more days before the NDP and Liberals figure out how to spin this into a climate emergency?

This slide had nothing to do with a fire, or burnt trees.

The slide is so deep, the cleavage plane is easily 50-100 feet deeper than any roots.....

This is just Ma Nature doing what She does here,
over and over again for millions of years....

[srupp]

hmmmm LOTS of drum beating...smoke smuges...bus loads lining up rubbing their hands together...sounds like compensation our poor sacred lands....these slides have happened for thousands of years....only now we have taxpayers to fund our demands.
actually heard one dude say it was white man on their land that caused this..incredible
steven

[high horse Hal]

What are the Chances.....

A man who was camping along the Chilcotin River in British Columbia's central Interior woke up to the sound of a landslide and ran away as the ground moved beneath his feet.
Debra Bortolussi with Central Cariboo Search and Rescue says the man told them he had set up camp with his dog during a rafting trip along the river, when he heard sounds of the slide at around midnight and started running away.
Bortolussi says it "seems like a miracle" that he wasn't caught in the slide as he ran away over moving debris, which then consumed his camp and rafting gear.
She says the man's dog is missing, but rescuers are hopeful they might find it because he had yelled at the dog to follow him during the escape.
The landslide is blocking the river, and the Cariboo Regional District has issued evacuation orders spanning 107 kilometres along the river due to "immediate danger to life and safety" caused by flooding as the waterway backs up.
The district has also declared a state of local emergency as it tells residents to gather their family and take anyone else who may need help to get out.
Bortolussi says the man sustained lower-body injuries during his escape, and he's in stable condition after a rescue operation involving a helicopter."
His tent, his raft, everything was taken out by the landslide itself," she said in an interview on Wednesday.
"It directly came down overtop of where he was."
The man spent the night atop the slide area, where Bortolussi says a local resident spotted him and made the call to emergency crews at about 8 a.m. Wednesday.

His dog has been found

[mike31154]

Much like avalanches in winter I reckon. Lives lost every year from those. The aftermath not as daunting as a slde damming a river tho....