© AP Photo/Juan KaritaPeople walk next to an area where around 100 houses were destroyed after a landslide was triggered by heavy rains at the Valle de Flores neighborhood in La Paz, Bolivia, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011.
La Paz, Bolivia - Heavy rains caused a hilltop to collapse in a poor neighbourhood of the Bolivian capital Sunday, cracking roads, destroying at least 400 homes and burying people's belongings under mud and debris.
There were no fatalities but significant damage from the landslide in the barrio of Callapa, La Paz Mayor Luis Revilla said.
Edwin Herrera, a city government spokesman, called Sunday's slide the worst that La Paz has ever seen - and he said the earth was still moving downhill.
"So far we are talking about 5,000 (people) affected, but the slide is affecting neighbourhoods in lower areas," he said.
Residents began evacuating late Saturday when the hill, saturated after prolonged rains, began sliding and cracks appeared in streets and homes.
Comment: Besides the suggestive undertones hinting that controlled regional nuclear warfare could be a GOOD thing for the planet, this rather sounds like a plausible cover story for atmospheric blasts produced by comets/asteroids and for the coming Ice Age (which will be precipitated by interaction with same, initially "at a distance" ref. McCanney).
Astronomers Victor Clube and Bill Napier even named their ground-breaking book on neo-catastrophism The Cosmic Winter, a play on the concept of a "nuclear winter" because of the high degree of probability that cometary bombardment will be mistaken for nuclear attack.