© AP PhotoEarth opens up on hillside community, Utah.
About 6 a.m. Tuesday, a hillside broke loose slowly demolishing the house as debris and rock filled and crumbled the residence. The family had evacuated prior to the slide entering the home.
City engineer Paul Ottoson said at a news conference Tuesday that one house remains in immediate danger if it rains tonight.
Nobody has been injured.
Ottoson says officials have been aware of the cracked soil on the hillside since last fall. He says the home developer and crews from the city removed some soil last year and were getting rid of more this week in hopes of making it less steep and alleviating some of the pressure.
Homes in the cities of Helper, Spring Glen and Carbonville were damaged also by the deluge, as well as the Westwood area about 100 miles southeast of Salt Lake City.
Gov. Gary Herbert said Tuesday in a statement from his office that state officials are working with local municipalities in the affected areas.
County road crews have already begun the cleanup effort and are providing hundreds of sandbags for people affected by the waters.
Comment: If researchers would only pay attention to what is going in the planet, then they will realize that we are hardly on a "long-term global warming" phase as the article suggests.
For an explosion you need two things: an igniter and combustible material. The Arctic, as with many other places on Earth is outgassing methane at never-before-seen rates. Lightning discharge events are also increasing in intensity and frequency because the solar wind is being grounded while comet dust loading of the atmosphere increases nucleation and resistance, leading to greater precipitation and greater charge-rebalancing respectively.
These 'crater-holes' are not an indication of global warming. They're another indication of the planet opening up.
See Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection: The Secret History of the World - Book 3 where this is explained in greater detail.