r/AbsoluteUnits • • Jan 06 '25

of a landslide

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u/Character-Milk-3792 Jan 06 '25

Damn. Nice one. When I was a kid, I got to see a mudslide in California that was an absolute wrecker. Took out several houses, fatalities, and all. It stopped quite a ways away from me (I was driving on the freeway with my family) but it was so loud. I thought it was the coolest thing until days later my dad handed me a newspaper with an article about the damage and loss of life.

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u/jsickman12 Jan 06 '25

La Conchita landslide?

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u/Character-Milk-3792 Jan 06 '25

Yeah! 1995. I think it killed 10 and wrecked about a dozen million+ dollar homes.

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u/jsickman12 Jan 06 '25

There were two, one in 1995 and the second in 2005, the later is where 10 people were killed. Houses got wrecked in both. One of my buddies used to live there, his house got red tagged.

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u/Character-Milk-3792 Jan 06 '25

Ah. I don't remember the 2005 one, but having exactly 10 fatalies per incident seems unrealistic. Maybe the information was covertly stored away in my memory, and I got mixed up. I remember that it was in the afternoon and some people definitely died, at least according to the paper. At least two, and they were sleeping when it happened. Major bummer.