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The slow-moving landslide creeping in for two weeks on a hillside in Jackson, Wyoming, has picked up speed and force to strike the city, while already shearing apart a house and closing in several others to swallow. With its “stunning amount of movement,” as local geologist, Jason Rolfe, figured out, Jackson officials have warned residents living on top of the hill to stay away of their homes and shut down their businesses at the bottom. Photographs taken from a drone showed that a house has been literally cut in half by the landslide, threatening at least 3 others to hit. Encompassing a space of about 500 feet wide and 400 feet long, the landslide also poses a threat to a critical water pipe, electric poles and town favorites like Sidewinders Tavern.
According to Jason Rolfe, during the last couple of years a leak at one of the houses in the area spilled an estimated 200,000 gallons of water, which combined with the melting winter snow to produce enough lubrication in the clays to go for a ride. Just about one month earlier, an even larger and stronger landslide in Washington State, ravaged the town of Oso, killing at least 39 people.
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