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A Norwegian Tsunami
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Item title reads - Norwegian landslide. Lakeside villages submerged. Norway. L/S's of picturesque fjords and impressive mountains in Norway, M/S of a boat sa...
Thanks for sharing SSG(P) (Join to see) what must have been terrifying to this small Norwegian community as the massive Langhammaren collapsed into the Fjord and sent a tidal wave up the Fjord to Storfjorden.
"In Tafjord, in the district of Sunnmøre, at the end of the fjord known as Storfjorden, five kilometers from the site of the rockslide, parson Anton L. Tafjord tosses and turns in bed. It is April 6, 1934. He had arrived that same day, on the boat Coronan, to celebrate his parents’ 78th and 80th birthdays. Several other guests had arrived on the same boat. There had been a party in the village. And now, after the party has ended, the parson has trouble sleeping. A little after 3:00 a.m. he is startled by a huge cracking sound. Soon he is wide awake. A sudden blast of wind, as if from a hurricane, roars through his bedroom. The house creaks. “What is going on?” he thinks. He listens. The sounds are inexplicable. Whooshing and roaring, they come ever closer, grow ever stronger. He jumps up, looks out the window, and is shocked by what meets his eye. Is that a snowdrift hurtling down the fjord? Or a waterspout? Something as high as the house he is standing in, is racing toward him. And he is on the second floor.
The villagers in the picturesque villages of Tafjord and Fjørå have no idea what is happening. It is impossible to see anything in the dark. The sound is what awakens them. Like a roar from nature, the rock face Langhammaren crashes into the fjord. People are awakened for miles around. “Worse than dynamite,” says one survivor, “all the houses shook.” The sounds are so inexplicable that many people think Judgement Day is upon them."
Here is a 1936 video of a Norwegian Landslide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1-MA3xeL8U
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq. Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx SSgt (Join to see) TSgt Joe C. SGT John " Mac " McConnell SP5 Mark Kuzinski SrA Christopher Wright Maj Marty Hogan PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SP5 Robert Ruck SCPO Morris Ramsey SGT Michael Thorin SPC Margaret Higgins SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
"In Tafjord, in the district of Sunnmøre, at the end of the fjord known as Storfjorden, five kilometers from the site of the rockslide, parson Anton L. Tafjord tosses and turns in bed. It is April 6, 1934. He had arrived that same day, on the boat Coronan, to celebrate his parents’ 78th and 80th birthdays. Several other guests had arrived on the same boat. There had been a party in the village. And now, after the party has ended, the parson has trouble sleeping. A little after 3:00 a.m. he is startled by a huge cracking sound. Soon he is wide awake. A sudden blast of wind, as if from a hurricane, roars through his bedroom. The house creaks. “What is going on?” he thinks. He listens. The sounds are inexplicable. Whooshing and roaring, they come ever closer, grow ever stronger. He jumps up, looks out the window, and is shocked by what meets his eye. Is that a snowdrift hurtling down the fjord? Or a waterspout? Something as high as the house he is standing in, is racing toward him. And he is on the second floor.
The villagers in the picturesque villages of Tafjord and Fjørå have no idea what is happening. It is impossible to see anything in the dark. The sound is what awakens them. Like a roar from nature, the rock face Langhammaren crashes into the fjord. People are awakened for miles around. “Worse than dynamite,” says one survivor, “all the houses shook.” The sounds are so inexplicable that many people think Judgement Day is upon them."
Here is a 1936 video of a Norwegian Landslide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1-MA3xeL8U
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq. Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx SSgt (Join to see) TSgt Joe C. SGT John " Mac " McConnell SP5 Mark Kuzinski SrA Christopher Wright Maj Marty Hogan PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SP5 Robert Ruck SCPO Morris Ramsey SGT Michael Thorin SPC Margaret Higgins SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
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