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Engineers are considering two strategies to begin removing rocks as large as a mobile home from Interstate 40 in western North Carolina near Tennessee. The Asheville Citizen-Times reported today that one plan involves building an access road to the top...
A stretch of Interstate 40 in North Carolina could be blocked for months after it was buried by a rock slide Sunday, officials said. The state Transportation Department said the massive slide occurred about 2 a.m. EDT in a steep gorge west of Asheville...
Tags: North Carolina-Tennessee, rocks slide, Interstate, Asheville Citizen-Times, closes interstate
Brown, who works at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center on the Seward Highway, was distracted and in a hurry to get home...She looked left from the driver's seat of her Ford Ranger and noticed thousands of smallish black rocks skittering downhill...
Tags: rocks slide, Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, Alaskan
A rock slide has closed Kalanianaole Highway in both directions between Sandy Beach Park and Lanai Lookout, authorities said. The rock slide occurred about 12:38 p.m. and blocked the inside lane of the highway. Fearing for the stability of the hillside,...
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Anger and resentment mounted as authorities failed for a second day to get heavy machinery into the devastated shantytown to try to clear the large slabs that split away from the Muqattam cliffs early Saturday. Survivors among the 100,000 residents of...
Tags: Cairo, shanty town, Egyptian, rocks slide
Police expected the death toll to rise and said many people may have been trapped beneath rubble in Manshiyet Nasser shanty town and are possibly dead.
Tags: Cairo, Egyptian, Manshiyet Nasr, massive rockslide, Muqattam, shanty town, boulders weighing, Moqattam, rocks slide, muqattam cliff