Just seen on BBC news channel here near midnight, about a landslide at Gjerdrum near Oslo with about 10 people missing.
I do hope all our friends in Norway and everyone else in Oslo tonight are O.K.

Erik Snow .... hope youre far from it and safe



ROCKMAN

Thoughts & prayers to our friends in Norway. Hope BV & family are OK!

This is really awful, people have lost their homes, ten people still missing...

Here´s some footage from the site:

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Matti from Finland



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Rockman
Erik Snow .... hope youre far from it and safe

Thanks mate, yes I'm up in the north for the vacation, it's a disaster what has happened down there

It is just terrible. I woke up to the news yesterday morning.

It has been raining like crazy all of December here, and even most of November, in the Oslo area where I live. I live 20 km i.e. 13 miles south of Oslo, while the landslide is 30 km i.e. 20 miles north east of Oslo. Lots and lots of rain, and warm weather, no frost in the ground. Very unusual December. The rivers have been super high, everything wet wet wet.

At 3:59am yesterday morning the emergency units in Romerike got messages from Nystulia in the county Gjerdrum, about a terrible landslide, quick clay landslide with many houses in an area of 700 m x 300 m i.e. 2,000 feet x 900 feet just a big crater may be 10-12 m i.e. 35 feet deep.

The first reports said 26 people missing, then as people reported they were accounted for, being at their holiday cabins in the mountains, for the Christmas holiday, or visiting friends, we are now down to 10 missing people, with 15 or so houses with 35 or so homes lost in the landslide.

Gjerdrum is a small county half way between Oslo city and Oslo Airport, just 6,000 people. The landslide area forced 750 people to evacuate their houses at 4am in the night yesterday, leaving everything behind. Daytime more houses fell into the deep black hole of clay and damaged houses. Another 500 or so people needed to evacuate they said. Farms with cows to be milked, and many other pigs and other animals to be fed, had to be abandoned, so rescue people have to work with both abandoned farms, and search for peopl, as we see specialist rescue workers working from long ropes off helicopters, into the very dangerous and unstable rubble of houses, clay, snow, rain, and it was still raining and snowing a lot yesterday. Today luckily the rain and snow stopped, it is easier to work.

Naturally, since yesterday, there are no more news about the corona virus in Norway. We are all focused on the missing people, and all of those who lost their homes, and everything private they own.

One of my cousins live in a house just a few feet from the crater hole, he was luckily not at home when the landslide happened, but he hope the house will stay, so that they may get their personal belongings eventually, whenever it is safe to get to the houses.

Again, like many times in the past, we are reminded by the fact that we live near nature, and that nature control our lives, the sea, the land, the storms, we just have to live with nature.

They say we should not fire up any fireworks in that area, because it may harm the rescue workers. I would support that. I haven't been firing any fireworks in 30 years time, as it is an insult to anyone who are starving to burn money, extra money, better spent otherwise.

We all hope the missing ten people will be found, but unfortunately we fear the worst, as the floating clay is cold, and it is now winter at freezing point in the area.





Bjornulf

how awful ...
Hopefully missing people will be found alive

Horrible. My thoughts goes to those affected by this disastrous landslide.

OMG. Let’s hope for some miracles. Hope rescue workers stay safe.

"Take all the pain...It's yours anyway"

Incredible - my thoughts are with all of those involved.

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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......

Picture taken earlier today. Private photo (Dagbladet)

Wow, Hopefully they can rescue the missing. We have those out here in California. Very scary. Stay safe. Enough of 2020 already.

Norway landslide: Body found as rescuers search Gjerdrum landslide (BBC)

Bjornulf

What a sad way to start a year.
Lot of strength for Norway !

Been watching the BBC News channel a lot today and seen how bad this landslide has been.
I pray and hope that there will be survivors in this awful tragedy.