Here today - gone tomorrow

We should consider ourselves fortunate that our routines of driving down the same old roads each day don’t ever come up against this kind of setback in this country…


Picture the scene… You’re driving past a diner, around a left hand bend towards a bridge, and then a T junction at the other end…


So far so good until you get to this point… Pic 3…


Just a few days ago, your journey towards the junction could continue over the bridge as per Pic 4 above, finally reaching the T junction at Pic 5 below…

Only now your journey has to end at Pic 3. The linked Dmail article below (won’t re-post their pictures directly for copyright reasons) - and the “sugar loaf” style hill you can see above you on the far side of the ravine has collapsed, destroying the bridge, and piling thousands of tons of earth all over the T junction as you can see in the ariel shots. (Dmail pics 2, 5 and another shot of the diner further down)

Over 40 people have died in this quake, and many others are missing, presumed buried under the landslides.

How can we moan about the tribulations on the M25 when another Island nation, similar climate to ours, and even driving on the same side of the road as we do - has THIS happen to them out of the blue? :frowning: :frowning:

RIP.

Yes, bloody awful and now another one in Eucador.