California Mudslides

[emmie]

not content with fires now this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42632660

[murraymints]

awful..such a mess... poor folks :0(

[mikey4444]

I have visited California many times over the 40 years, and I often said that I would love to live there. Now, I am not so sure !

But Arizona would be ideal.

[emmie]

the officer in the link likened it to a WW1 battlefield, 13 dead with more probably unaccounted for.

[Peter Pedant]

// the officer in the link likened it to a WW1 battlefield, 13 dead//

kinda jus like the first day of the battle of the Somme with 50 000 dead on the first day

(or perhaps Pershing's boys storming the St Mihiel Wood in 1917 - but I fear that is too technical)

[emmie]

not too technical, but estimate was 60 thousand dead and wounded on the first of the Battle of the Somme and Pershing seemingly was an arrogant so and so who sent men into battle when the war was done,

[mikey4444]

Emmie....lions led by donkeys, as the phrase goes.

[Islay]

I would imagine the officer was referring to the mud not the number of dead!

[Togo]

Short Video and more pictures with this link.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/california-mudslides-kill-at-least-13-people-in-area-ravaged-by-wildfire/ar-BBIbq8Q?li=BBoPWjQ

[emmie]

Islay he was...

[zebo]

Mikey, I'm at the head of the queue for Arizona! A few years ago there was massive coverage of fires in Colorado where we were due to go a few weeks later. When we got there no-one knew much about it, they'd been asked by lots of out-of-state people! We're off to the Keys in April, we feel that our bookings have an adverse on the US weather.