Toyota Yaris vs rock...

The Mirror newspaper in the UK yesterday carried a dramatc illustration of the effect that a boulder can have on a car.  This car was parked by the side of the road in Hayfield in Derbyshire on Sunday when an eight tonne boulder slipped off a lorry.  Fortunately there was no-one in the car:

 Time to buy a new bottle of T-cut?  Picture from the Mirror

Floods in France

France is currently suffering some terrible flooding that is also resulting in a serious threat of mudslides to the extent that some motorways (freeways) have had to be closed.

Although not really landslides, I felt I just had to show the following pictures of the Grangent reservoir on the Loire valley, which has trapped an extraordinary amount of debris washed down the river as a result of the rainfall:

Debris on the surface of the Grangent reservoir, France. From here.

More debris on the surface of the Grangent reservoir, France. Also from here.

There are also some fantastic pictures and videos, such as the image below, on this blog site (in French).