Incredible! Love the way one telegraph pole stays upright for most the trip. Also notice there's people in the houses looking out at the avalanche going down the road.
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
watching that I would say they were lucky it didnt flatten the house. NE1, agree
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Saw this earlier on FB, I can't believe how far the snow travels!
After all it is free
After all it is free
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That has really amazed me. I can't believe how far it travels after the main avalanche has actually stopped!
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Ricklovesthepowder, the main avalanche is still feeding it at 3.40 when the move the camera to focus on the buildings
People forget that snow is heavy, depending on type (this looks quite wet) snow can vary in density from about 100Kg per cubic meter up to about 700kg per cubic meter
If we say that avalanche is at least 100M long 5 M wide and 3M deep (average figures) then thats 1500 cubic meters moving at about 2 meters every 3 seconds or about 2.4 kph if we take a fairly low value for the weight say 400kg/mcubed we get 600 tons of snow moving at 2.4 kph, not much can stop it
Could be worse, powder avalanches can be much larger and faster think in terms of the same sort of mass (powder avalanches are bigger but less dense) but moving at 100 kph, I've seen the results of such an avalanche after it hit a chalet, 10m long 20cm by 10 cm timbers snapped as if they were matches, the only place to shelter from such things is in a cellar and hope you can dig yourself out before the air runs out
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Most things flowing like this act like a fluid whilst in motion and can travel great distances … I remember seeing some video on the beeb of a rockslide in Italy which looked just like a river of water!
Something like this http://youtube.com/v/W4KWxglDL3o
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Wow.
I'm sat in the office and just showed a couple of non skiers this and some other videos of avalanches, there was a lot of
Although they got very excited when I showed them how they use explosives to trigger them.
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Here is the TV report in German the day after with views from inside the house.
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