The benighted Corinbank team have now been trapped at their festival site by a rockslide near Gibraltar Falls.
Spare a thought for the guys who were having a pretty rough time of things (what with their year of hard work going down the gurgler) even before being separated from their families for the next couple of days.
[Photo by Webby]
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Rockfall on Corin Dam road
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You mightn’t get a Kenworth around it but a careful driver in something smaller…np.
The portaloos will start smelling like the Festival really happened…
HenryBG said :
My understanding from working with the nerdy world is that it would be described as rockslide pr0n.
m@d 1337 5k!115 h@x0r ftw!!11!!l and all that…
I saw some other pics and there are more rocks behind the big one in the bend.
Jivrashia said :
Lucky you brought that up again, I first read: “Anybody who, like me, is a fan of rock spider porn”
I stopped wondering why he didn’t want to go near a court of law.
Jivrashia said :
I’m sorry – not my meaning at all. Although you have me intrigued….no…no…I won’t go there.
In my understanding, “[insert word]-porn” refers to excessively geeky, and perhaps slightly over-excited, fascination with galleries of pictures relating to a very narrow area of interest.
HenryBG said :
I’m serious starting to have misgivings about the Internet Rule No. 34.…
johnboy said :
Or beer.
In fact, with zero guests having turned up, supplies should be looking very good indeed.
Would there be anywhere better you could trapped this week, in the world?
johnboy said :
You mean there are a couple of flimsy yellow trestle-style road barriers sitting in the middle of the road somewhere down near Tidbinbilla road?
ACT Coroner’s report: “I find they died of a combination of starvation and exposure due to being trapped on Corin road. They were unable to be rescued because somebody had put a couple of flimsy yellow trestle-style barriers across the road. The ACT government bureaucrat in charge of flimsy yellow road barrier decisions was off on stress leave after having to make 17 decisions in one week”.
well they’re not out of food or water at the Corinbank site as far as I know.
Captain RAAF said :
Yeah, because any sensible Kenworth driver would really love to stick his centre of gravity over the side of a mushy verge…..
Otherwise – valid point – maybe they’re talking about people with no friends or family to come and pick them up from the other side of the rockfall?
Minor point that the road is closed for fear of further falls.
Trapped….seperated?
You could drive a Kenworth around those rocks!
HenryBG said :
Haha, quite.
Come on, Holden, humour fail or what….
Anybody who, like me, is a big fan of rockslide porn, might enjoy:
http://www.uow.edu.au/eng/research/landslide/landslideimages/rockfalls/index.html
Well worth a visit:
http://seacliffbridge.com/index.php/seacliff-bridge/history-and-construction
Recent activity:
http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/news/local/news/general/slide-rips-open-keiras-old-wound/2445925.aspx
Less than 2 years ago:
http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/news/local/news/general/wombarra-landslip-no-risk/1943017.aspx
(This one is very visible from the main road – it’s very impressive).
Effing ‘ell! That is some big rock. I wonder how long it will take them to clear the road. And after they clear the road, what is the process they follow before they declare the road safe to drive on again?
Disinformation said :
You mean, in the middle of the road?
Lucky those sturdy fences were there, or those rocks could have ended up anywhere!