"La bouche de la v=E9rit=E9 - D=E9j=E0 Vu Le Proph=E9te"

Talking as we were about disasters happening everywhere in the

the moment,
I was wondering how far this landslide disaster was from

?!?!?

Laytonville is somewhere in the mountains of Northern California,

it ?!?!?

Hooroo / Toodles ;-)

Uncle Wally

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1280397.htm

Wednesday, January 12, 2005. 8:15am (AEDT)

Rescuers search for survivors in the US village of La Conchita
following a mudslide, which killed three people and buried 15

(Reuters)

Three killed, 27 missing in US landslide
Rescue workers in southern California have begun searching for as

as 27 people who may have been buried amid homes crushed by a

which was unleashed by a week of heavy rain.

Three men were confirmed killed on Monday after the steep hillside
above the seaside hamlet of La Conchita collapsed in a torrent of

trees and rocks that deluged a four-block area north of Los

Between 20 and 27 people remain missing and could be buried in the
muddy wreckage, including three young girls and two teenagers,
officials and residents said.

Rescue workers, who were forced to pull back for several hours
overnight due to fears of a second mudslide, returned in the

hours to drop microphones and fiber-optic cameras into crevices in

wreckage.

By morning, as the skies finally began to clear, 75 emergency

were back at work on the nine-metre mound with shovels, picks,

saws and their bare hands in a race to find the missing in the

slip of land between the Pacific Ocean and hills south of Santa
Barbara.

Authorities said the slide had smashed houses together, making it
harder to dig, but also creating more potential airspaces in which
survivors might still be found.

Of the 14 injured in the slide, 12 were taken to hospital and two

listed in critical condition.

The landslide came after a series of winter storms that have

California since mid-December, bringing 40 per cent more rainfall

the area typically gets all winter.

It was the second landslide to hit the area in a decade. A

wall built after a 1995 slide was swept away by Monday's torrent.