Footage shared Wednesday showed the moment an enormous rockslide collapsed onto a parking lot in the popular tourist destination of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, on Sept. 1.
The sudden slide was somehow captured on film without seeming to injure anyone, and it’s one of the most intimidating things I’ve ever seen. Shared by AccuWeather, the video shows a rock face next to a Food City supermarket parking lot, which has clearly been “reinforced” using bits of spit and crepe paper…? Whatever the reinforcements actually are, they clearly didn’t have any real strength.
What started as a tiny tumble of a few rocks quickly developed into half of the cliff face collapsing in one fell swoop, sending a torrent of heavy rocks and debris into the parking lot. Some cars were definitely hit, but it’s unclear precisely what damage the slide caused.
Well, that escalated quickly…A…
