Thursday, October 9, 2008(10-09) 04:00 PDT Yosemite National Park --
A large slab of granite cracked loose from a cliff in Yosemite National Park early Wednesday and crashed into the Curry Village resort with a thunderous roar, flattening tents and forcing hundreds of campers to run for their lives.
Dozens of schoolchildren fled the scene screaming and crying as broken rock rained down, snapping trees, smashing through the walls of cabins and sending a plume of dust hundreds of feet in the air.
"It sounded enormous, like the earthquakes I've been in in Los Angeles," said Tom Voelpel, a lighting technician from Valencia who was sharing a tent at Curry Village with his twin brother, Dave, in celebration of their 50th birthday. "You could hear trees snapping and rocks crunching and cracking against each other."
Click here to see the rest of the article. Why wasn't this on the news? They were too busy telling us about (insert annoying overdone news storty here) Souns like it was really scary. I just goes to prove my greates fear as a climber "rocks can move".
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