Holy cow, four miles long by two miles wide, up to 250 ft deep. I wonder that it didn't register as an earthquake:
Large mudslide in Mesa County; 3 missing
The Mesa County Sheriff's Office has confirmed a large landslide on the Grand Mesa near the town of Collbran. The Sheriff says the slide was first reported at 6:15 p.m. and is estimated to be 4 miles long, 2 miles wide and as deep at 250 feet in places. 3 people who live in the area have also been reported missing, it's not known yet if they were caught up in the slide.
The Sheriff's Office says they have personnel on scene with multiple other agencies to search for those reported missing. Everyone aside from emergency responders is being discouraged from going anywhere near the area because of potential dangers due to the unstable situation.
A witness who called into dispatch this evening, described hearing a noise that sounded much like a freight train that is attributed to the slide.
"This slide is unbelievably big," Lt. Phil Stratton, Mesa County Sheriff's Office, said. Weather, including rain, has fallen in Mesa County most of the day and likely contributed to the cause of the slide.
The Sheriff's Office doesn't expect to post any updates overnight due to lack of cell phone service, but will pass along new information Monday.
Grand Mesa is supposedly the biggest mesa in the world. It's an unusual place, the change in elevation causes a moist alpine forest on top, surrounded by high desert and canyons all around.
Nature at work. If I remember my college geology, a mesa is a place that resists erosion while everything else around it subsides to natural forces. Eventually, mesas become undercut, get unstable and fall. If you look at a classic picture of a mesa, there's rubble at the base. That rubble came from the top. It's not a question of IF a mesa will fall, it's only a question of when.
The three men missing in a massive mudslide that washed over a rural area of Colorado were surveying a previous slide when the second one hit, officials said Monday after surveying the area.
The vehicles the men were driving — a pickup truck and 4-wheeler — have not been found in the slide, which stretches 2 miles and is a half-mile wide and 200 feet deep in some areas, said Mesa County Sheriff Stan Hilkey.
I hope they find those guys and they're all okay, but I kinda' doubt it.
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
I kinda figured it would once daylight returned and they got pics. Still darn big. As mentioned in the article, we've really taken a soaking over the last few days.
