The video makes a slowish start, so keep watching. This is the first debris flow of cars that I have seen on video...! This is a Google Earth perspective image of Atrani:
I guess it is not hard to see how very heavy rainfall, or another hydrological event in the catchment, can lead to such an event.
Impressive video! This also remainds me of what happened in Madeira island (I'm from Portugal)on February 20th this year. You can search on youtube by "inundações madeira" and some videos with impressive images will show.
ReplyDeleteWow! Such a powerful flow! This is a great example of how geologic processes can overrun and bury areas and wildlife. Fossil bed discoveries that describe large numbers of plants and animals being quickly buried could owe their existence to events like this. I hope there is an engineering solution for this town and other like it along the coast that can be implemented.
ReplyDeleteHere are some pictures of the day after situation. One girl is unfortunately unaccounted for
ReplyDeletehttp://napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca/2010/09/10/foto/alluvione-6948962/1/