The Frank Slide
90 million tons of limestone rock slid down Turtle Mountain within 90 seconds.
I can not imagine the sound of a mountain letting go nor what the miners (who were underground at the time) felt after they dug themselves out. What they saw or rather didn't, which was the east side of Frank gone.
Read the write up on it, or google it. Or, if you can, hop in the car and drive through it, like we did. Wow.
90 million tons of limestone rock slid down Turtle Mountain within 90 seconds.
I can not imagine the sound of a mountain letting go nor what the miners (who were underground at the time) felt after they dug themselves out. What they saw or rather didn't, which was the east side of Frank gone.
Read the write up on it, or google it. Or, if you can, hop in the car and drive through it, like we did. Wow.
Devastation on a grand scale.
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