Polk County Tennessee Rockslide Nearly Kills Road Crew

[TheCottonTop]

"This is what happens when you mess with nature!"

Al Gore.

[lakishadressel]

This is exactly what i was looking for. This is AWESOME!!

[jjojjorge]

Also, why employ the term "Break-up" in "Break-up the boulder"? If the journalist is going to employ such compounded words, why not apply the term "break-down" in this case?

[jjojjorge]

A perfect example of the ineptitude that reigns the vast majority of the planet. The so-called competent private contractors should not have attempted destroying the displaced boulder exactly in front where the slide had recently happened. By the way, such slide should not be called an accident because road-engineers know that slides can and will happen, therefore they should be prophylactic...

I will go search for a spring-break video and comment about our future so-called professionals.....

[otirudam]

wow vanessa bateman a true heroine, amazing.

[Coolerzmaster]

yaya hehe me cat is tikling me balls yayhehe!!!!!

[AnotherNutJob]

You don't have to be a geologist to know when a hill is thumping snapping and cracking that you should get the F outta there!

[JenningsIRL]

Give that geologist a medal.

[mistershake860]

World record trundle

[gemmabee43]

I am morbidly fascinated by natural occurences like this, it's just so immense! The sheer power of nature is incredible

[ReaderOfHearts]

Oh yeah I remember this, was pretty intense!

[gggreggg]

notice that it was a STATE GOVERNMENT PERSON!!!

(govt works when people want it to work!!!)

blind hatred of govt is what gives us bad govt!

[gotham61]

@YDontUSmelWhtUShovln I've driven that road many times. The alternative is a 2 hour detour. In the middle of the mountains, you can't just put a road anywhere.

[utvolsnumber1]

that would suck to get hit with a mountain

[murdock770]

RE Opened today! woohoo 4/14/2010

[BaltoFan121]

And it's still closed, we couldn't get over there, cause it was blocked.

[treasurebooks]

I am all over the roads in tn and nc. this scares me to death. all the rain that we have and lots of snow this year. I think I will just start staying home.

[lollinandbawlin]

I drove that road about 100 times doing some forest technician work. Crazy to think something like that could happen randomly

[soulcornflake1]

Yeah, but if you've driven on 64 you know there are signs everywhere that say 'watch for falling rocks' still, you only expect A rock, not the entire side of the mountain.

[birddoggarton]

There was a guy killed on Hwy 70, close to pegram tn. Just out side of nashville.

A rock , about the size of the one in this video, fell on top of his pickup. It stopped and crushed his truck, killing him instantly.

I think it was in the late 70's or early 80's.

The Overhangs on Hwy 70, need to be blasted. I wish TDOT would do something about it. Every year at least 3 or 4 cars are totalled along that stretch of HWY.

[WanagiAkicita]

I've known a lot of people who were killed on that road. It scares the hell out of me. About 10 or 15 years ago, a rock the same size as that boulder landed a car's length ahead of me. My sister was up there, in her pickup, and I was sure she was under it. But she wasn't, after we got around and finally got back home, she was home, clueless about the rock slide, said she wondered where we went to, oh well. Those narrow curves, don't get me started. Wrong place and wrong time when a truck comes..

[snowflakexsv]

yea this sucks but atleast no one was hurt...i normaly ride my motorcycle up this road a few times a weeks....not anytime soon!

[jaynem3]

nateville is an idiot.

[CraigTPE]

I was about a mile away when it happened. My dad and I were enroute from Michigan to Blue Ridge, GA and we were to pass that spot. TDOT was rerouting people just up the road because of the slide earlier that morning. Scary to think we were that close and seriously could have been passing it when it happened.

[BrianWC85]

nateville... you're gay

j0e... you're gay too...

[215jami]

If you pre drill the rock ,it will break along the drill lines in manageable pieces, a lot faster ! She would be great in the ditch thats what reading is all about *****

[tr1bis2gago]

i live near there i take that road all the time

[natevilledotcom]

I feel sad for the trees :(

[j0e2]

wow some dirt moved. thrilling.

[RLaurenceDavis]

As professor who teaches his students about natural hazards, all I can say is "this is why we do what we do!"

[von32897]

Wow. Thanks God the geologist made that call. If not for her, it would've been very deadly. She's a hero.

[vidmister]

@von32897 thank the geologist, not god.

[Jerod18]

some people i go to college with had to stay in town to make it to school this morning! haha wow