Mudslide sweeps houses into the sea in Norway

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Terrifying. You used to hear about this happening all of the time to cliffside homes in LA after heavy rains, but haven't heard about them in a number of years.

OP, your username made me laugh out loud.

Does Norwegian homeowners insurance cover mudslides, I wonder I do?

Hey Norgie, what’s the word?

R3 Thanks! I always forget to click the box to use it

R4 This is from Alta in Finnmark county, the most northern part of Norway. It's very sparsely populated. I live a 2 hour drive south of Oslo. I've never been that far north.

I'd still rather live there than in America

This happened because of increasing temperatures and a rapid melting of snow and ice. That part of Norway had a late spring this year. The thawing happened too fast, hence the mudslides.

Incredibly, no one was injured or killed.

There goes the neighborhood...

[quote]I'd still rather live there than in America.

Cunt.

The most peaceful destruction I've ever seen.

I hate when that happens.

op is tom bierdz

R11 .

Shit, that video looks totally different than what I expected.

I was imagining something like an avalanche, not a three-acre town gently sliding into the sea -- and then the houses coming floating back to the shore!

I didn't even know Norway had mud. It always looks so clean in photos.

[quote]I'd still rather live there than in America

Stupid nonsense.

[quote]This happened because of increasing temperatures and a rapid melting of snow and ice. That part of Norway had a late spring this year. The thawing happened too fast, hence the mudslides. —Norwegian

Gurl, you should have a career in weather.

and gayface most welcome!

R19 I read about in in a newspaper. I didn't know beforehand. I learned as I read about it.

This is God's punishment for not sending Ulrikke back to next year's Eurovision!

It doesn't even look like a mudslide. It looks more like a tsunami.

Did they see their reflection in the snow-covered hills first?

Yes, that looks very different from a California debris flow (or mudslide), largely because it takes place at such a low angle. There's no speed.

It looks like the gently sloped ground was so saturated with water that it lost all integrity, not that it was pummeled with water or mud coming down a slope.

Damn I was rooting for that 2 story white house to make it !

Don't tell Trump, he'll call it a shit hole country.

No, he likes Nordic countries and wishes it were them beelining to the United States.

I’ve watch that video several times. It really is Wild watching that White House move so slowly towards the water. It then disappears and reappears moving in the opposite direction in the water flow. Truly interesting to watch if you don’t on the house. I feel sorry for those people

[quote] It really is Wild watching that White House move so slowly towards the water.

Too bad that wasn't the real current White House sliding into the Potomac!

Is this a covert scat thread?