Rock Slide Destroys Home, Kills Two in Rockville
Posted by: brwhiz
N 37° 09.655 W 113° 03.008
12S E 317961 N 4114691
On December 12, 2013 tons of dirt and rock separated from the face of a bluff and cascaded down onto a private home situated on the main highway leading to the southwest entrance to Zion National Park.
Waymark Code: WMJQRQ
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 12/19/2013
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Record cold temperatures and unusually large amounts of recent snowfall may be to blame for causing the giant rand large amounts of other debris that cascaded off the bluff face immediately behind the house. Several of the boulders were as large as or larger than the house itself and one of them rolled right over the house with another coming to rest on top of the bedroom occupied by the two inhabitants when the slide occurred at 4:54AM.