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"mudslide" Definitions
  1. a large amount of mud sliding down a mountain, often destroying buildings and injuring or killing people below

326 Sentences With "mudslide"

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The mudslide happened at noon, and normally he would be having lunch at a restaurant right where the mudslide went through.
What's the difference between a mudslide, landslide, or debris flow?
A mudslide cascaded into her driveway, severely compromising the hillside.
I was up in Belo Horizonte when the mudslide occurred.
A mudslide in Utuado, Puerto Rico, killed two "bedridden" sisters.
People carry the coffins of mudslide victims during a mass burial.
It was a mudslide that struck near Freetown, the nation's capital.
Right now, it is a "mudslide of a market," Foote adds.
That mudslide killed 43 people, according to the US Geological Survey.
I get the Mudslide and a green juice to take home ($22).
I recently tried the cricket Oreo mudslide shake and it's pretty good.
This is a tectonic plate shift in perspective, not a minor mudslide.
A catastrophic mudslide essentially erased Barba Blanca from the map last month.
But a mudslide badly damaged their home and wiped out their savings.
I lost several friends, and my school was buried in the mudslide.
This month, more than 300 people died in a mudslide in Mocoa, Colombia.
In 2017, a mudslide killed more than 1,000 people and left thousands homeless.
Images showed a mudslide blocking the road just ahead of the leading riders.
Along Montecito's Coast Village Road, the mudslide overturned trees and covered the pavement.
Last August, torrential rains set off the huge mudslide in Freetown, the capital.
The highest mudslide risks will be across areas that have burn scars from wildfires.
Recently a crater opened up in Guayabetal, near the site of the biggest mudslide.
The number of fatalities surpassed the death toll from a California mudslide on Jan.
And with rain in the forecast, there was a possibility a mudslide could occur.
The fundraiser was named after the area code that was devastated by the fatal mudslide.
In 103, rain in Colombia's northwest caused a mudslide that killed more than 80 people.
Underwater avalanches The mudslide that caused the Taylor Energy leak was not an isolated event.
"It is not confirmed yet but it may have been a mudslide," Mr. Walker said.
Transportation officials said a mudslide closed a portion of the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.
What about the following scenarios: tornado, winter storm, hazardous winds, wildfire, flood, hurricane or mudslide?
An elderly woman was found dead in her house after a mudslide swept through it.
At least 254 people have died after heavy flooding set off a mudslide on Saturday.
"It's like being caught in a mudslide and anything you reach for gives," she said.
The mudslide happened at the Donner Summit, northwest of Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
One Wisconsin resident died after a mudslide destroyed a home, according to CNN affiliate WEAU-TV.
On Wednesday, hundreds of Freetown residents queued to identify relatives crushed by the mudslide on Monday.
In 2015, torrential rains in northwest Colombia caused a mudslide that killed more than 80 people.
Video from Japan's public broadcaster NHK shows collapsed roads and homes engulfed by a massive mudslide.
It occurred almost a year to the day after a huge mudslide engulfed part of Chamoson.
Gower was at home with her boyfriend early Tuesday when a mudslide swept through the neighborhood.
The mudslide hit Freetown Monday, wiping away hundreds of houses and burying victims as they slept.
In 2015, a mudslide in Salgar, about 60 miles southwest of Medellin, killed more than 80.
Mudslide danger replaces fire threat in Southern California Severe weather deaths The weekend was brutally cold.
We have all this land, but it's useless because it was all contaminated by the mudslide.
CNN affiliate KGO reported another mudslide, along Highway 17 near Scotts Valley in the Santa Cruz area.
NHK said a woman died in her home in Hiroshima when it got buried in a mudslide.
THIGH-HIGH MUD The number of fatalities surpassed the death toll from a California mudslide on Jan.
In the days before the storm, officials repeatedly warned residents of a mudslide risk after the fire.
Three days after the mudslide, unclaimed bodies piling up in Freetown's main mortuary posed another health risk.
So a mudslide would be mud and water sliding down a slope, slipping, kind of a blob.
He was caught in a mudslide as he tried to rescue a family early Saturday, authorities said.
The next day, Hurricane Katia made landfall in the state of Veracruz and caused a deadly mudslide.
Bishop John Yambasu, head of the United Methodist church, led prayers from the scene of the mudslide.
"It's disturbing that so many lives have been lost following this heavy rain and mudslide," Chifwelu said.
The trailer where he stored parts was tossed in the mudslide and some of his cars totaled.
The last time the rain came to this area of Southern California, a mudslide walloped through Montecito.
But Saturday's visits with mudslide victims offered the pontiff a chance to distance himself from the controversy.
Sierra Leone held a mass funeral Thursday for the hundreds of people killed in Monday's devastating mudslide.
Local emergency personnel in Brazil told AFP that the dam's collapse caused "several deaths" due to a mudslide.
A mudslide traps several vehicles along Valley of the Falls Drive in Forest Falls, California, on Nov. 29.
Emergency personnel rescue a woman from a collapsed house after a mudslide in Montecito, California, on Jan. 29.
A search and rescue dog is guided through properties after a mudslide in Montecito, California, on Jan. 211.
He and his family lost their home in a catastrophic mudslide in 1999, which killed tens of thousands.
After the mudslide, "the attitude was if the mud is on your property it's your responsibility," she said.
Katia's remnants led to a mudslide that killed two people Saturday in the city of Xalapa, Veracruz Gov.
Residents of the mudslide-hit area were assessing their damaged homes, with some grateful their properties had survived.
A few miles away a maroon sedan that had been caught mid-mudslide hung precariously above the road.
Bolsonaro was applauded for traveling to Brumadinho immediately after the mudslide in January, but he hasn't returned since.
A few months before the mudslide, the people from Vale had told us the dam posed no risk.
My wife is a cleaning lady, and she was working in a client's house when the mudslide happened.
August 14 - A mudslide, sparked by heavy rains and flooding, kills at least 500 people in Sierra Leone.
Still, the mudslide has left in its wake questions about what could have been done to prevent the deaths.
After Tuesday's rains, the lack of drainage caused water to accumulate and eventually triggered the mudslide, de Leon said.
According to the latest death toll, 499 people, including more than 150 children, were killed in the Regent mudslide.
The toll had already marked the greatest loss of life from a California mudslide in at least 13 years.
It seemed like we were riding through remains of a mudslide — watching the train disappear around bends was unbelievable.
The 69-year-old woman and her boyfriend were at home Tuesday when the mudslide swept through the neighborhood.
Two people died in a mudslide in the state of Veracruz after the storm hit, The Associated Press reported.
A mudslide in the capital Freetown last year killed 500, restarting a debate over unsafe housing in crowded cities.
People who didn't drink before the mudslide started coming to the bar and staying here until late at night.
After the mudslide, I closed the bar for a month because no one was in the mood to drink.
When Hurricane Mitch struck in 1998, her town was wiped out by a mudslide, and crime and instability jumped.
Think about Myanmar, a country plagued by civil war and genocide, which just experienced a mudslide that killed 54 people.
Two women were rescued by first responders in the German state of Hesse after they became caught in a mudslide.
In Honduras, two youths drowned in a swollen river, while in El Salvador, a man was killed in a mudslide.
A search-and-rescue team member and his dog search a home that was destroyed by a mudslide on Jan.
Katy Perry gave an emotional performance to a group of first responders and mudslide survivors on Sunday in Carpinteria, California.
Insurers are recognizing a probable link between the fires and the mudslides and have been paying mudslide claims, Jones said.
Just last year in Montecito, intense rainfall caused a mudslide in the burn scars from recent wildfires, killing 20 people.
You can still enjoy the signature sweet cream flavors of Baileys withtheir refrigerated creamers, in flavors like Mocha Mudslide. Yum!
Chávez had come to power earlier that year, and the mudslide was among his first major tests as Venezuela's leader.
He led the recovery from both the Ebola outbreak in 2014 and from a mudslide last year that killed hundreds.
David Clark, Cal Fire spokesman, says the mudslide was the result of a significant amount of rain on January 9.
On Saturday, Colombia's president, Juan Manuel Santos, said during a visit to Mocoa that the mudslide was the latest consequence.
The search continues for survivors, with reports of more than 6.03 houses buried under a mudslide in a nearby town.
Susan Gordon, who lives in Sausalito, said she woke up to the sound of rumbling when the mudslide hit Thursday.
A gigantic mudslide resulted in the closing Sunday night of Interstate 80, the main east-west connector through north-central California.
The homework monsoon was so massive and never-ending that some students actually took a ride down the papery stairwell mudslide.
Rebecca Riskin, a Montecito realtor and mother of two, was also killed in the mudslide, her business partner told BuzzFeed News.
Just days before the ceremony, they learned the flames had destroyed much of their venue — and a mudslide could possibly occur.
Four Chileans and a male tourist whose name and nationality have not been disclosed were died in the mudslide, authorities said.
Ms. Carmona lost her first home in a deadly mudslide in 1999 and spent five years bouncing between government-run shelters.
The rainfall accumulation reached up to an inch per hour, which is twice the amount considered enough to start a mudslide.
ABC News reported Joseph Francis Bleckel, 87, was found dead in his Romero Canyon home four days after the mudslide occurred.
A mudslide closed a portion of the Pacific Coast Highway between Malibu and Ventura but it reopened late Monday, Caltrans said.
Instead of one damaged wellhead, a mudslide would leave a tangled mess of pipes buried under a giant mass of sediments.
These valves apparently failed, because miles-long oil slicks have been seen on the waters above ever since the 19803 mudslide.
Emotions ran high as a children's choir sang at the service organized by the Movement for Restoration for Mudslide Victims Organization.
The racecars, freckled with dirt as if they'd been through a mudslide, were shoved back onto trailers to be hauled home.
But to this day, I can still see the mudslide coming towards me, because I had been out on the land.
Diane Brewer said her friend, Josie Gower, 69, died after she opened her door and was swept away by the mudslide.
Last month torrential rains caused a mudslide in Sierra Leone that killed over 1,000—though the exact toll will never be known.
The story, centering on a small Colorado town, Vanadium, begins with an explosion and a mudslide that destroys most of Main Street.
Following the fires and subsequent mudslide that devastated the local landscape last winter, Sitz was finally able to commence renovations in March.
The Freetown mudslide was caused by a more deliberate human activity than is usually associated with climate change and similar natural catastrophes.
The mudslide was so massive that it temporarily shut down US 101, a major West Coast highway, from Montecito to Santa Barbara.
More than 100 Sierra Leone Red Cross volunteers were on the frontline of the mudslide response, carrying out search and rescue operations.
Deforestation, alongside unplanned and unregulated construction, makes the problem worse, transforming a natural hazard into a flooding and mudslide disaster, he noted.
The mudslide began on August 14 after three days of torrential downpours had lashed Freetown, creating waterways that churned down its steep streets.
Other enterprising poor people purchased — at bargain prices — land that was not zoned for residential construction due to flooding, mudslide, and earthquake risks.
There was also flooding below the shelter, and a mudslide had caused the porch to collapse on the right side of the building.
Four days after the mudslide she returned with a sheriff's deputy, wading through thigh-deep mud that was as sticky as peanut butter.
Katia's remnants led to a mudslide that killed two people Saturday in Xalapa, a city in the Mexican coastal sate of Veracruz, Gov.
Unlike Pompeii, Herculaneum had been buried under a vast mudslide caused by the eruption, not ash and lava, which was much more destructive.
"We're are still trying to confirm reports of a farming village buried by a mudslide," said Ryan Cabus, an official in Tubod town.
Guaido and his family survived a catastrophic mudslide in 1999 that killed thousands of people and destroyed thousands of homes in La Guaira.
No injuries were reported after the mudslide, which local news outlets said had begun after storms caused a river to burst its banks.
The plant's five-stage purification process was reduced to just one — chlorine injection — after a mudslide damaged the plant in 2013, she said.
Almost five years ago, he responded to a deadly mudslide in Oso, Washington, when he was chief of the Mercer Island Fire Department.
Interim Sausalito Engineer David Bracken said city officials didn't have any prior concerns or warnings that a mudslide might happen on the hillside.
But the government is giving cash totaling about $171 to each family affected by the mudslide, with the last payment due in November.
Mudslide danger replaces fire threat in Southern California Severe weather deaths At least 22 died last week because of severe weather, officials said.
"The people of this country have suffered from a bloody civil war, then cholera, later Ebola and then this mudslide," Ms. Amaya said.
She said that the impact of the mudslide is similar to the aftermath of hurricanes she saw in her hometown of New Orleans.
In what nation would you find the city of Mocoa, which was recently struck by a deadly mudslide following torrential rain in the area?
Demi's home got red tagged Monday night ... a house above the singer's was compromised by the storms and a mudslide cascaded into her driveway.
Also in Ehime, two elementary schoolgirls and their mother who got sucked into a mudslide were pulled out but could not be revived, it said.
The United Nations children's agency (UNICEF) is providing trauma counselling and therapy to families and children in the dozen-odd communities struck by the mudslide.
A California family is desperately searching for two sisters who were last seen on Tuesday as a mudslide swept away their family's Southern California home.
The United Nations children's agency (UNICEF) is providing trauma counseling and therapy to families and children in the dozen-odd communities struck by the mudslide.
The mudslide also destroyed a school and several homes and roadways as well as a voting center ahead of Chile´s presidential election on Sunday.
KHAR, Pakistan – A Pakistani official says a mudslide has killed eight children and wounded two others in the country&aposs northwest near the Afghan border.
The train derailment was likely caused by a mudslide, with a "pretty significant big" tree being a secondary cause, Union Pacific spokesman Francisco Castillo said.
Everything else -- Sierra Leone is in a "race against time" to avoid a new landslide only days after a mudslide claimed more than 330 lives.
The mining dam burst on Friday, triggering a deadly mudslide which buried mining facilities and nearby homes in the town of Brumadinho, killing 60 people.
But those streams quickly became rivers that then suddenly became a mudslide, and Ms. Pérez, 38, and her relatives had to fight for their lives.
Things changed in 223, when, during his senior year of high school, a mudslide, swollen by days of heavy rain, crashed down on the town.
Divers were eventually able to get about a third of a mile beyond the chamber before a mudslide forced them to turn back, he said.
In Switzerland, footage emerged this past week of a mudslide hitting the village of Grugnay in the municipality of Chamoson, as witnesses scrambled to safety.
In Chattanooga, a Subway restaurant was flattened by a mudslide caused by rain from the same storm system, according to the Signal Mountain Police Department.
My mother had been sick before the mudslide, but she got so much worse after, and I think deep sadness made her death come faster.
"They were trained in providing psychological support and promoting hygiene and sanitation," said Nafo-Traoré - skills that are now being used to aid mudslide survivors.
Their goal was to set up instruments to measure runoff when the rains inevitably came, part of a program to improve understanding of mudslide hazards.
Also in Ehime, two elementary-school girls and their mother who got sucked into a mudslide were rescued but their hearts weren&apost beating, it said.
Earlier Saturday, the governor of Veracruz reported that two people died in a mudslide caused by Tropical Storm Katia, which made landfall in Mexico overnight Friday.
A mud-covered small animal can be seen struggling in the mud on the lower-right corner of the video before getting swept into the mudslide.
It was still searching for a 64-year-old employee who it said was swept away by a massive mudslide while clearing debris from a ravine.
Luckily, the Connecticut-based quick-serve chain Wayback Burgers is offering up a gateway bug for would-be entomophagists like myself: the Cricket Oreo Mudslide milkshake.
One was just under the mudslide so we were trying to dig her out while the train was hanging, so it was a pretty crazy experience.
Up to 1,000 people are dead or missing after a devastating mudslide in the capital of Sierra Leone Freetown, with thousands more left without a home.
All eight members of Deen's family are living in a small tent in Juba camp, alongside nearly 500 people who lost their homes in the mudslide.
Humanitarian workers and others are drawing on their experiences of dealing with the 2014-2016 Ebola crisis to respond to the mudslide disaster, Nafo-Traoré said.
The spill, called the Taylor oil spill, started in 2004 when an oil platform owned by Taylor Energy sank during a mudslide caused by a hurricane.
The mudslide, which was caused by torrential rain on Tuesday falling on earth recently scorched by wildfires, has claimed 15 lives with many more injured or missing.
Woody and Lindsay Thompson thought their cat, Koshka, had been lost after the mudslide left them stranded in the debris of their home and buried in mud.
At least six people died, with two of them killed when a bus was buried by a mudslide while driving along an exposed coastal road, authorities said.
Just weeks before the mudslide in, the area experienced its largest wildfire on record, burning through a total of 273,400 acres and destroying more than 1,000 structures.
Villa Nueva, Guatemala (CNN)At least 9 people died after a mudslide ravaged southern Guatemala early Wednesday, according to volunteer firefighters in the municipality of Villa Nueva.
On Friday, Sierra Leone buried 461 victims of a mudslide that swept away homes on the edge of Freetown, the capital, and 600 more people are missing.
"I just kind of waited it out because I did not want to go down to Toro Canyon while ... the mudslide was actually going on," he said.
I've said some bad things myself -- never that bad, I want to emphasize -- and feel guilty for having contributed my own small portion to this moral mudslide.
Freetown, Sierra Leone (CNN)Rescuers have recovered over 300 bodies after Monday's deadly mudslide on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital, the country's tourism minister said Wednesday.
Help Sierra Leone mudslide victims Nigeria Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari tweeted that more than 100,000 people had been displaced due to flooding in the state of Benue.
A mudslide forced the temporary closure of a section of the Pacific Coast Highway Monday, while some schools will be closed Tuesday in anticipation of heavy rain.
Game 53 of the Warriors' first-round playoff series against the Houston Rockets on Sunday afternoon was a basketball mudslide, and Curry got the worst of it.
There had been no need to sound a newly-installed siren to warn local residents, according to Samarco who said the mudslide had not left its property.
Experts say while heavy rainfall triggered the mudslide, decades of unchecked development in the outskirts of the mountainous area of Freetown laid the ground for the disaster.
The leak started in 2004, when an oil platform belonging to the Taylor Energy Company was damaged by a mudslide after Hurricane Ivan hit the Gulf of Mexico.
Last January, 21 people died in the Southern California beach community of Montecito after a massive mudslide tore through hills burnt raw by a fire the month before.
While there are promises of homes being built for victims of the August mudslide, so far only 57 homes have been constructed, all away from the city center.
Thirteen bodies were recovered from the rubble, a military spokesman said, adding that most of the victims had been buried in their homes by the mudslide Tuesday night.
In 2015, Brazil experienced the worst environmental disaster in its history when a dam holding mining-industry waste burst and sent a toxic mudslide along the Rio Doce.
The violent storm and mudslide on Sunday night caused the Losentze river to overflow, carrying with it two vehicles, including one that was empty and later found wrecked.
"Military personnel and medics are still digging through the rubble from the mudslide to find survivors despite the risk of further landslides in the area," General Ranasinghe said.
She was asleep on the second floor when the mudslide lifted her home off its foundation, breaking it apart and pushing it down a hillside -- with her inside.
The mudslide happened after torrents of mud water triggered by heavy rains and flooding brought the side of Mount Sugar Loaf crashing into shanty towns below the hillside.
He must act now to prevent another deadly flooding or mudslide by enforcing the National Protected Area law, which forbids construction in protected areas like those around Sugarloaf.
On Tuesday, a mudslide forced the closing of parts of the A2 highway in Switzerland, including the Gotthard Tunnel, one of the main thoroughfares running through the Alps.
At times, we'd come across a bite mark of pavement that had tumbled down the slope, a mudslide of toppled trees, and large rocks we had to drive around.
Last year, hundreds of people were killed in a mudslide in Freetown, Sierra Leone, along a hillside where residents of the booming city had cleared forests to build homes.
Disaster in Colombia: The death toll is more than 230 and still rising from a devastating mudslide that struck the southwest city of Mocoa, near the border with Ecuador.
Samarco, a joint venture between Vale SA and BHP Billiton, said in a statement the mudslide involved residual mud left in the area devastated by the earlier dam burst.
Disaster relief crews have already spent weeks digging through the mud trying find victims swept from their homes in the mudslide from the Thomas Fire burn area near Santa Barbara.
There's this professor of business, I think Clay Christensen, and he called it the "mudslide hypothesis," which is a kind of small change, a small technological advantage ... One pebble. Yeah.
Last year, Guatemala had one of its worst ever natural disasters when nearly 300 people died in a mudslide in Santa Catarina Pinula on the southeastern flank of Guatemala City.
If you don't die in a mudslide or building collapse immediately after The Big One, here's everything you need (and the stuff you can leave out) for your survival kit.
Samarco, a joint venture between miners Vale SA and BHP Billiton, said in a statement the mudslide involved residual mud left in the area devastated by the earlier dam burst.
Five members of one family who were buried in a mudslide — a husband and wife and their three teenage daughters — were laid to rest in a common grave Saturday afternoon.
For example, the social satire aspect of the novel comes to a glorious climax in the book when a mudslide explodes into a neighbor's house during a school fundraising brunch.
The researchers don't know what caused the mass death, but given that the site is associated with climate change, theories abound including a mudslide triggered by a volcano, Ciochon said.
A community called to action The Taylor spill started when an oil platform belonging to Taylor Energy was damaged and sank during a mudslide caused by Hurricane Ivan in 2004.
Sausalito, California, saw five inches of rain in the past 24 hours, which triggered a mudslide in the hilly Bay Area town and forced people to evacuate at least 50 homes.
In the frantic hours after the news about the mudslide came in, Idalia Amaya noticed something unusual about the first emergency coordination meeting: Even this early, there was a full house.
"The mudslide swept down from the hills on the outskirts of Freetown early this morning and spared nothing in its path," said Sasha Ekanayake, Save the Children's Sierra Leone Country Director.
BOGOTA (Reuters) - A mudslide killed at least seven people and buried more than 10 others along a mountainous stretch of Colombia's main highway between Bogota and Medellin, authorities said on Wednesday.
The President also spoke of a man who had saved for years to move his family into the area affected by the mudslide and another who was due to marry Friday.
For lunch, the quiches, soups, and sandwiches are all warm and inviting, but it's the pastries—oatmeal jumble cookies, mudslide cookies, bread pudding, carrot cake, and more—that you shouldn't resist.
It wasn't lava that caused the destruction, though, but a mudslide of volcanic ash triggered by rain, which I experienced as a biblical deluge four of my five days in Pumalín.
At midday on January 25, 2019, the town of Brumadinho in the southern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais was hit by a mudslide after a dam break, killing over 200 people.
The camera zooms in on Bezos, who's lounging in a chair on the roof of the facility with the nonchalantness of a dad enjoying a half-priced Mudslide at a TGI Friday's.
The worst damage was in the community of Montecito, Santa Barbara County Fire Department spokesman Mike Eliason said, where some homes were knocked off their foundations by the strength of the mudslide.
Kamara is one of thousands who lost everything in the mudslide and is now living in one of several camps set up by the government with the help of international aid agencies.
In New York, the rush hour got off to a rocky start as service on Metro-North&aposs Danbury Branch in Connecticut was suspended due to a mudslide and signal power problems.
Arif Khan said the children, of ages 8 to 10, were collecting mud for their houses Friday when the mudslide buried them in the village of Gardai in the Bajur tribal region.
The mudslide created leaks in 25 undersea oil wells, snarled the pipelines leading from the wells to a nearby oil platform, and brought the platform down on top of all of it.
Jones, in late January, told insurers they were obliged to cover the mudslide damages upon a finding that wildfires, which ravaged the region during the weeks before the mudslides, spurred the disaster.
Along the mudslide that was once part of the hamlet of Corrego do Feijao, from which the mine takes its name, residents concentrated on trying to put their lives back in order.
Clutching her two-year-old daughter, she weeps as she tells of how she escaped from the mudslide, only to realize she couldn't find her husband, Lansana, 25, a motorbike taxi driver.
On Monday, a natural gas pipeline in Guizhou owned by China National Petroleum Corp collapsed due to a mudslide, causing an explosion that killed at least eight people and injured another 35.
People can contact the AMPR .. It is also raising money via a gofundme page for Evelyn Rivera, a teacher who was buried alive for six hours in a mudslide during the storm.
Even if Los Angeles crumbled around it—burned up in the wildfires, collapsed in an earthquake, dried up in a drought, was entombed in a mudslide— the Last Bookstore would still remain.
I had been fishing with my son in a small river upstream from the dam when the mudslide happened, and so I didn't know there had been an accident until I returned.
Devastating scenes after an explosion in Russia and a mudslide in Colombia: In St. Petersburg, a bomb tore through a subway train midafternoon, killing an estimated 11 people and injuring dozens more.
What she didn't know was that a massive mudslide was about to trigger a series of events that would very nearly kill her and take the lives of nearly two dozen people.
YAOUNDE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Experience gained taming West Africa's Ebola outbreak is helping Sierra Leone deal with its recent mudslide disaster, but urgent action is needed to prevent future catastrophes, experts say.
Professor Matthew said satellite imagery, drones and locally gathered data and knowledge can help with pulling together relevant information fast, as well as producing high-resolution models of flood and mudslide risk.
FREETOWN, (Reuters) - A mudslide killed more than 200 people on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown on Monday, sweeping away homes and leaving residents desperate for news of missing family members.
The mudslides that scoured the affluent community of Montecito, 4503 miles (137 km) northwest of Los Angeles, caused the greatest loss of life from a California mudslide in at least 13 years.
In Sausalito, just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, a mudslide carried away two homes and engulfed five cars, sending one woman to the hospital, Southern Marin Fire Department tweeted.
In California, a gigantic mudslide closed a section of Interstate 80 in the Sierras and high winds felled a famous giant sequoia tree with a hollowed-out tunnel that motorists could drive through.
Rainfall earlier this week did not trigger any large debris flows, but Roth said the danger of a mudslide will remain far into the future for hillsides that flames have stripped of vegetation.
For Ortiz, and many other families living in Mocoa, the horrific mudslide was only the latest in a string of losses in a country riven by both armed conflict and worsening weather disasters.
Much more damage would be done if one or more of the thousand or so production platforms that now blanket the Gulf of Mexico were destroyed without warning by a deep-sea mudslide.
Along the massive mudslide that was once part of the hamlet of Corrego do Feijao, from which the mine takes its name, residents concentrated on trying to put their lives back in order.
In Hokkaido on Thursday, rescue workers were struggling to get to the homes crushed by a mudslide in the towns of Atsuma and Abira after the quake, which struck just after 3 a.m.
In another neighborhood of the capital, Regent, the rain caused a massive mudslide that killed seven members of the same family, including children, when the two-story building in which they lived collapsed.
A woman died in a mudslide on May 19 not far from the wreck and officials in Polk County were asking people living in vulnerable areas to voluntary leave before the weather got worse.
It's possible this mudslide of cash is therefore not a huge positive for the Democratic Party—but it's great for the low-level workers who are going to be paying off their student loans.
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - At least nine people died and two people were missing from a small town near Guatemala City on Wednesday after intense rains the night before caused a mudslide, emergency workers said.
VICE spoke to Ana Rapha Nunes, a professor of text production at the FAE University Center in Brazil, who recently published Mariana, a children's book about a young girl who experiences the tragic mudslide.
We read about the mudslide through a detailed report written by the school's authorities, as they provide a full and honest account of events to the parents and recommend best practices for avoiding PTSD.
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Sixteen people died and six more were missing after a mudslide triggered by heavy rains tore through a village in India's mountainous northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday, officials said.
A year later, the memories are still fresh In all, 21 people died in the mudslide that relentlessly cascaded down the hillside, through the town, across the 101 highway and into the Pacific Ocean.
The eldest of six children from a working-class family in the coastal state of Vargas, Guaido survived a devastating 1999 mudslide that posed one of the earliest tests to Chavez's 14-year rule.
Weeks after a massive mudslide tore through the Southern California beach community of Montecito, killing 33 people, officials acknowledged that they sent out inaccurate evacuation information that excluded dozens of homes from a warning zone.
Technically, Zia Valentina promotes these waffle-cone cups for coffee or ice cream, but there's no reason you can't enjoy a Nutty Irishman or Mudslide in them — and then gobble down the glass as well.
There has been flooding at some of its installations, and a search effort is underway to find a worker swept away by a massive mudslide while helping clear debris from a ravine, Southern Copper said.
Impact on local life The mudslide dealt another blow to residents and businesses that have been grappling with road closures with the demolished Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge to the north and the landslides to the south.
On Cold Devil, Drakeo raps with a patient, almost syrupy cadence that sounds like a tanker truck full of honey caught aflame, or mercury leaking from a shattered thermometer, or a mudslide hitting a confectionary.
A mudslide and flooding closed a 10-mile stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway, aka State Route 1, in both directions from western Malibu to the Ventura County line, the California Department of Transportation said.
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Donor pledges are pouring in from countries across the world to aid Sierra Leone after a mudslide devastated the capital this week, killing at least 2000 people and leaving 2300,2000 homeless.
Republicans accused Democrats of fomenting "mob rule" by egging on protesters, and Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican and majority leader, repeatedly blamed Democrats for setting off a "mudslide" of personal smears against Justice Kavanaugh.
The day we were originally supposed to check in, hotel management was exceedingly accommodating when we called to inquire about changing the reservation after waking up to torrential rains and a round of mudslide warnings.
At these establishments, no one (at least none of the employees) judges me for ordering an appetizer sampler for myself or pounding back a Skinny Lime Margarita, a Bubblegum Daiquiri, and a Mudslide for dessert.
CONAKRY (Reuters) - The bodies of 19 people thought to have perished in a mudslide in Sierra Leone more than a fortnight ago have washed up on Guinea's shores, the government in Conakry said on Wednesday.
Vale S.A. – Shares of the Brazilian mining company fell more than 11 percent in premarket trading Monday as rescuers continued to search for hundreds of people missing after a burst mining dam sparked a deadly mudslide.
Pick a natural disaster — wildfire, hurricane, mudslide, or heat wave, many of which research shows have already been exacerbated by climate change — it's always the people with the least to lose who get hurt the most.
FREETOWN (Reuters) - Rescue workers have recovered nearly 400 bodies from a mudslide in the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, the chief coroner said on Tuesday, as morgues struggled to find space for all the dead.
Where Sore was an unforgiving noise mudslide (save for the ending piano ballad "Burned By the Cold,") Heaven is healing, intimate, an understanding that absence weighs more than presence, that life is both sweet and sour.
That's personified by next-door neighbor Audrey (Kristen Wiig), who railroads the parents at her kid's school into attending brunches at her spacious home, where the children perform "African" dances before a mudslide carries everything away.
In the mountains of North Carolina, two Department of Transportation workers survived a close call when their dump truck was swept away by a mudslide in McDowell County while trying to clean debris from an earlier slide.
It's classic Southern Gothic, and the fourth and final season shows no sign of letting up: All that slowly oozing small-town dirt has become a mudslide, and we can't wait to see where it takes us.
Finally, a mudslide in Santa Barbara caused Amtrak rail service to be suspended Saturday morning between San Luis Obispo and L.A. Story updated to include response from California Natural Resources Agency, which commented on behalf of Gov.
In response, going from Vladimir Putin's playbook, we can expect a furious, relentless, inventive and brazen propaganda campaign that will probably continue indefinitely, hoping to bury the truth in a mudslide of conspiracy theory, denial and rumor.
In a statement, the Minas Gerais state prosecutors who requested the judicial action said the mudslide had destroyed schools, water and sewage networks, football pitches and public buildings in the town of Barra Longa and surrounding area.
A couple was found dead in a farmhouse buried in a mudslide in Kagoshima prefecture Monday, while earlier a woman who was reported as missing after getting trapped in her car was found dead, Kyodo news service reported.
In the Philippines, at least 60 people died after Typhoon Mangkhut made landfall on Saturday, and many more are feared to have been killed after a mudslide struck a miners' bunkhouse where people were sheltering from the storm.
LIMA, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Southern Copper Corp has partially suspended its operations in southern Peru due to heavy rains and is searching for a worker who was swept away by a mudslide, the company said late on Sunday.
Freetown, Sierra Leone (CNN)Sierra Leone is in a "race against time" to avoid a new landslide, an official has said, only days after a devastating mudslide on the outskirts of the capital claimed more than 330 lives.
The debris added weight and force to a mudslide that took out a bridge in the Guaynabo neighborhood outside San Juan, stranding families who may now have to hike through mountainous, overgrown terrain to get food and water.
Speaking of which, it's getting difficult to suss out Trent's true identity as a colorful Mississippi mudslide due to his recent string of spiffy suits and zero hats — and the judges can no longer tolerate such blatant sophistication.
Brazilian miner Samarco Mineracao SA, in which BHP Billiton owns a 29 percent stake, said on Wednesday it evacuated some workers after rain caused a mudslide at the site where an iron ore tailings damn burst in November.
As noted by California police, the scene following a mudslide that devastated parts of Southern California evoke images of World War I, as thick rivers of mud consume entire neighborhoods, leaving an unprecedented trail of destruction in their path.
Facebook and other social media platforms are powerful centrifugal forces, binding groups together to fight other groups within their own country, driven mad and propelled into battle by an eternal mudslide of outrage-inducing viral videos and conspiracy theories.
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When aid worker Idalia Amaya arrived at the scene of the mudslide that devastated Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, she was horrified to find homes washed away, entire villages engulfed by mud, and corpses floating down the streets.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth sent her deepest sympathies to hundreds of victims of a mudslide in Sierra Leone that swept away homes on the edge of country's capital city in one of Africa's worst flood disasters in living memory.
Opinion: Now we have a moral duty to talk about climate change Africa Sierra Leone A massive mudslide sparked by heavy rains and flooding in an area of Freetown, Sierra Leone, has killed around 2000 people and left hundreds more missing.
What drilling on shaky ground does In 2000, storm surge and monster waves from Hurricane Ivan initiated the huge mudslide that destroyed the Taylor Energy platform, an aging facility called MC2200A, located about 2000 miles off the Mississippi River's Birdfoot Delta.
On Monday afternoon, Mr. Estrella, the man who was unable to get the bodies of his relatives in the morgue, recalled rushing to the neighborhood of San Miguel after hearing the mudslide to see if his family members were still alive.
Three weeks before the mudslide, far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro was sworn in as Brazil's president, after campaigning on tax cuts for big businesses; loosened mining restrictions; less government spending on environmental protection; and dismissals of human-caused climate change.
FREETOWN, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Facing the threat of disease, Sierra Leone on Wednesday began burying hundreds of victims of a mudslide that swept away homes on the edge of the capital, one of Africa's worst flood disasters in living memory.
Brazilian rescuers searched into the night on Sunday for hundreds of people missing after a burst mining dam triggered a deadly mudslide, as the death toll rose to 58 people and was expected to keep climbing more than two days after the disaster.
Seawall in Blackpool, UK Artificial lake in Silvretta, Austria Avalanche and mudslide barriers in Fionnay, Switzerland Nothing about a dam or a sea wall or an artificial island is natural, yet engineers try so hard to make them blend into the landscape.
The death toll from the devastating mudslide that buried a Southern California city in mud and debris earlier this month has risen to 210 after authorities found the body of a 289-year-old mother, the Santa Barbra County Sheriff's Office said.
John Reed was a neighbor of the couple in the Oso area, which was hit by a deadly mudslide in March 2014, and Shunn had reported to police that he and his wife had been threatened by Reed in a property dispute.
In Tujunga, just north of Burbank, where a Southwest flight skidded off the runway in heavy rain Thursday, a portion of La Tuna Canyon is closed near Interstate 210 due to what officials described as 2-inch debris flow from a mudslide.
The mudslide exposed the government's lack of vision and refusal to act when illegal structures were sprouting all over the city, said Ibrahim Abdullah, a former professor of history and African studies at Fourah Bay College at the University of Sierra Leone.
Luce has scanned the scene with her binoculars and has discovered nothing to alarm her unduly, except that the repair work on the upper stretch of Vedders Hill Way, which was recently washed away in a mudslide, seems to have temporarily stopped.
The country's interior cabinet secretary, Fred Matiangi, said 17 people died in a mudslide in the village of Takmal in the Pokot Central district, while 12 others lost their lives in mudslides in the villages of Parua and Tapach in Pokot South.
Climate change likely played a role in the Sierra Leone mudslide as warmer air can hold more moisture, increasing rainfall - but human factors are also to blame, said Richard A. Matthew, professor of international and environmental politics at the University of California, Irvine.
I haven't shit my pants yet, but I've come to accept that if I keep going with this diet it's just a matter of time before we lose a battle, and I fill my undies like a rainforest mudslide overtaking a mountain road.
When Eisenstein ventures out of his hotel, he visits the city's famous El Museo De Las Momias (The Mummies' Museum), and after the news of a catastrophic mudslide, goes to the disaster scene and is traumatized by the death of a child in his arms.
Brown, in response to questions of why some places were not part of the mandatory evacuation zone, said it was not possible "in a situation like this to define to the house or to the block or to the neighborhood" where a mudslide might occur.
FREETOWN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After losing her baby boy in the devastating mudslide near the Sierra Leone capital Freetown, Aminata Kamara now fears that she could also be forced out of her home city when camps for survivors of August's deadly landslide close next week.
Sisay said some people have wrongly claimed to be mudslide victims in the West African country that was already struggling to help all those impacted by the Ebola crisis in 2014 that killed about 3,000 and a civil war raging from 1991 until 2002.
It may be that things outside of Kim's control -- like a random defection across the line -- or a mudslide that moves landmines into areas patrolled by Southern troops (as allegedly happened in August 2015) will escalate again the war of words between the two sides.
MOCOA, Colombia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two years after a mudslide that killed more than 300 people in the Colombian rainforest town of Mocoa, local authorities are struggling to get the funds to resettle tens of thousands of residents living in areas at risk of flooding.
BRUMADINHO, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian rescuers searched into the night on Sunday for hundreds of people missing after a burst mining dam triggered a deadly mudslide, as the death toll rose to 58 and was expected to keep climbing more than two days after the disaster.
Still, the 2100 fatalities confirmed in and around the affluent community of Montecito, 2101 miles (26 km) northwest of Los Angeles in the coastal slopes adjacent to Santa Barbara, ranks as the greatest loss of life from a California mudslide in at least 1.83 years.
The storm brought drenching rains and 11-foot surges of seawater; shook and damaged buildings; and left dozens injured in the city, after first ravaging the Philippines, where on Monday workers were still searching for survivors in a mudslide in the northern town of Itogon.
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Food aid is reaching thousands who survived a mudslide on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday, two days after 163 people died and more than 216,24 were left homeless.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Brazilian miner Samarco Mineracao SA said on Wednesday it evacuated some workers after rain caused a mudslide at the site of a November dam breach that killed at least 17 people and led to about 800 losing their homes.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Two people died in a mudslide in Mexico sparked by storm Katia, and thousands were left without power as the weather front dissipated inland on Saturday, threatening to dump rains in waterlogged areas also shaken by a major earthquake this week.
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of people in Sierra Leone left homeless by a mudslide which killed at least 400 people urgently need food, shelter and healthcare, aid agencies said on Tuesday, as they raced to prevent outbreaks of fatal diseases such as cholera and typhoid.
US-VALE-SA-DISASTER Brazil resumes search for missing after dam collapse, ends evacuation BRUMADINHO, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian firefighters on Sunday resumed searching for hundreds of missing people and called off an evacuation of nearby residents after a mining dam ruptured on Friday, triggering a deadly mudslide.
Travelers who book their stay at Solage through a Virtuoso adviser also get daily breakfast, a $230 resort credit, a bottle of wine, a mudslide treatment at the property's spa and a room upgrade as well as an early check-in/late checkout, depending on availability.
In Zimbabwe's Coppa Rusitu Valley, a township in Chimanimani near the Mozambican border, hundreds of homes were flattened by large rocks and mudslide from a nearby mountain, burying some residents, who never stood a chance as the cyclone unleashed its fury at night when most were sleeping.
Cooper said in a statement that two state Department of Transportation workers were swept away by a mudslide in McDowell County as they cleared debris from a previous slide but managed to stand on the side of the truck after it fell into the Catawba River and were rescued.
DAKAR, Aug 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of people in Sierra Leone left homeless by a mudslide which killed at least 270 people urgently need food, shelter and healthcare, aid agencies said on Tuesday, as they raced to prevent outbreaks of fatal diseases such as cholera and typhoid.
From the catastrophic mudslide in Shenzhen to the Sino-Japanese dispute over the Diaoyu Islands (which the Japanese call the Senkaku) in the East China Sea, the exhibition touches on topics pulled straight from the headlines, but interpreted by artists who are storytellers more than they are documentarians.
It was impossible to see the gracefully draped cream tunics, cowls creating their own topography, the elephantine trousers, mudslide leather boleros and boiling sea-foam capes, however, and not feel a potent nostalgia for a world gone by: Natural or political just depends on your point of view.
Track severe weather across the country Mudslide threat in California California, which for weeks battled massive fires as dry weather turned much of the state into a tinderbox, will see 2 to 4 inches of rain across the state as a winter storm descends on the West Coast.
And as hours went by after the mudslide and bodies began to decompose in the soggy heat, volunteers knew from dealing with the highly contagious Ebola virus that small measures — like wearing masks and gloves then safely disposing of them, to prevent the risk of waterborne disease — took on outsized significance.
Earlier this week, as a spring training guest of the New York Yankees, Gossage loosed a densely fragrant mudslide of superheated bitchery into the nearest open microphone—about young players, Latin players, kids today, managers today, geeks, dweebs, weirdos, and how They Make The Orange Juice Too Strong These Days.
"Last night I was doing a show in Santa Barbara for the mudslide relief in Montecito, and there's a lot of guys who are there 'cause I think they want to be, but I know that they're usually there to support their wives or girlfriends or kids," Perry told the outlet.
Through all the noise and extracurriculars of the N.B.A. finals, a series that has played out with the elegance of a mudslide, James has remained the steadfast captain at the wheel of the Cleveland Cavaliers, guiding his team away from elimination — twice now — and filling this championship-starved city with hope.
My constitution has been weakened by the current political and ecological climate: It's less fun to watch a movie about people lost at sea or adrift in space when I'm also genuinely worried about cities struggling to recover from a devastating hurricane, a torrential downpour, a mudslide or raging wildfires.
If his entire oeuvre was buried in a mudslide and unearthed hundreds of years from now, a person looking at it might think that our age was actually an admirable one — a time when we placed a premium on our friendships, savored nature and its splendors and promoted social tolerance.
After losing her house to a mudslide and bouncing for years between temporary shelters — and even, for a time, an unfinished skyscraper called the Tower of David that was occupied by squatters — she was given a home in Ciudad Tiuna, a housing project that Mr. Chávez erected in a vast Caracas military base.
There are a few clues I wish had survived the final edit, notably 20-Across ("Mudslide component" — more fun than giving away the store with the brand reference, no?) and 10-Down ("Its name comes from the Aztec word for testicle" — so evocative, and once you know it, you can't un-know it).
In British Columbia, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said a local fire chief went missing after a swollen river swept him away in Cash Creek, B.C. An elderly man is also missing after a mudslide enveloped his home in Tappen, B.C. "This is the heaviest rainfall we have seen in over 8003 years," Brien said.
If Democrats like me want our chosen president to be able to govern, we had better elect a Democratic Senate, too, and, if at all possible, a Democratic House, or we can look forward to having our hopes for the next four years buried in a mudslide of partisan hearings, allegations and, most chilling of all, indictments.
In a state already suffering an acute housing shortage, the fire that swept through the town of Paradise and neighboring hamlets has once again laid bare one of California's biggest vulnerabilities: With each disaster — wildfire, mudslide or earthquake — there are thousands of people who cannot find homes in a market that for years has had very little vacancy.
Seawall in Blackpool, UK Artificial lake in Silvretta, Austria Avalanche and mudslide barriers in Fionnay, Switzerland Grimsel Pass Dam, Switzerland Grass-covered seawalls along the Skagerrak strait in Lønstrup, Denmark Snow sheds at Sella Pass, Italy Reservoir in Tauernmoos, Austria Rock netting in the Alps near Schwarzach im Pongau, Austria Artificial island Neeltje Jans off the coast of the Netherlands.
Tosh describes sometimes funny, sometimes weird details that make up the texture of his atypical life: from a devastating mudslide to his shared passion with Wallace for 1960s pop music to his absolute aversion to smoking weed to his pretentious declaration of the best music to have sex to (at the time): side two of Evening Star, the 1975 studio album by Robert Fripp and Brian Eno.
In addition to Jonathan, Gower, Riskin, Rohter, Taylor, the Sutthithepas and the Mitchells, the others killed during the mudslide were: • Kailly Benitez, 3 • Joseph Bleckel, 87 • Martin Cabrera-Munoz, 48 • David Cantin, 49 • Morgan Christine Corey, 25 • Sawyer Corey, 12 • Peter Fleurat, 73 • John McManigal, 61 • Mark Montgomery, 54 • Caroline Montgomery, 22 • Marilyn Ramos, 27 CNN's Joe Sutton, Konstantin Toropin, Janet DiGiacomo and Joe Sterling contributed to this report.

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