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Getbig Main Boards => Politics and Political Issues Board => Topic started by: SAMSON123 on May 12, 2010, 06:19:44 PM
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This of course will be eaten up by those claiming Global Weather Change
Family killed as home swallowed up by giant sinkhole in Quebec
(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00716/QUEBEC2_CROP-1_N105_716302a.JPG)
(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00716/QUEBEC3_CROP-1_N105_716333a.JPG)
(AP)
The family were watching an ice hockey game on television when the earth suddenly gave way under their house
The earth opened up and swallowed a family of four in their home in Canada as they watched ice hockey on TV.
The bodies of Richard and Lynn Prefontaine and their daughters, Amelie, 11, and Anais, 9, were found in the basement of their two-storey house in Saint-Jude, Quebec. Only the green roof of the property was visible after the disaster. The family’s golden retriever, Foxy, was found safe outside tethered to a tree in the mud.
“After digging and going through the rubble we found the four victims,” said Michael Dore, Quebec’s emergency management co-ordinator. “They were very close to one another, some of them lying on the couch in the family room in the basement.”
The giant sinkhole was caused by a landslide on Monday in the farming town of 1,000, about 50 miles northest of Montreal. It ate up three cars, a stretch of concrete road and most of the Prefontaines’ house on a cliff over a tributary of the Yamaska River. The landslide, which pulled down the cliff, created a crater about 600ft long by 400ft wide and 40ft deep. it happened at 7.30pm time as the Prefontaines cheered the Montréal Canadiens in their Stanley Cup play-off against the Pittsburgh Penguins. The family had no warning and no time to escape.
Herman Gagnon, a neighbour, told reporters that he heard a loud groan that appeared to come from his basement and went to check his pipes before realising that there had been a landslide.
It took rescue workers a day to dig down to the Prefontaines’ TV room to recover their bodies from the basement, which was buried in sludge.
The sinkhole also engulfed a pick-up truck with its driver trapped inside. André Cartier suffered concussion and it took him more than an hour to climb out of the hole and seek help at a nearby farmhouse.
The Mayor of Saint-Jude, Yves de Bellefeuille, said that the deaths were a “big blow” to the tight-knit town. He said that he was proud of the rescue effort. Neighbours offered food and hot drinks to rescue teams as officials brought in a psychologist to help locals to cope with the shock.
Worst affected were classmates of the two dead girls. Mr Prefontaine was described as an electrician who liked photographing wildlife as a hobby.
Experts said the landslide was the result of recent rain changing the composition of the clay that makes up the area. Quebec is notoriously prone to landslides. The Canadian Government said that clay earthflows had caused about 100 deaths in recorded memory, including the destruction of two Quebec towns in 1908 and 1971.
By a coincidence, the destruction of St-Jean-Vianney on May 4, 1971, also took place on the night of a Montréal Canadiens game during another unexpected Stanley Cup run.
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Ya we got ridiculous rain the other day. infact, we got more rain in one day, than we had all year combined. Apparently this ground was supposed stable for over 10,ooo yrs... and all of a sudden it shifts? Why do I find that so difficult to accept?
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Ya we got ridiculous rain the other day. infact, we got more rain in one day, than we had all year combined. Apparently this ground was supposed stable for over 10,ooo yrs... and all of a sudden it shifts? Why do I find that so difficult to accept?
The sudden over saturation may be the culprit... either that or under that ground is clay or chalk which can slide or dissolve over time from too much rain
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The sudden over saturation may be the culprit... either that or under that ground is clay or chalk which can slide or dissolve over time from too much rain
It was clay