Enorme modderstroom Mesa County (Colorado VS) 3 mensen worden nog vermist

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Als gevolg van een enorme modderstroom in Mesa County (Colorado) het afgelopen weekend,
worden nog 3 mensen vermist.

(Modderstroom = four miles long, two miles wide and 250 feet deep).


Massive mudslide in western Colorado

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Massive Colorado mudslide seen from the air
The Mesa County Sheriff's Office has released aerial pictures that revealed the extent of the area covered by a massive mudslide in the remote Colorado area.
Rescue teams have so far failed to find any sign of three men missing after a ridge saturated with rain collapsed, sending mud sliding for three miles.

Clancy Nichols, 51, a county road and bridge employee, his son Danny, 24, and Wes Hawkins, 46, have been missing since Sunday after the ridge gave way.

They went to check on damage from an initial slide near the edge of Grand Mesa, one of the world's largest flat-topped mountains, after a rancher reported that his irrigation ditch had stopped flowing, Mesa County Sheriff Stan Hilkey said.

The search near the small town of Collbran has been hampered because only the lower third of the slide is stable.

While the surrounding area is popular place for fishing, hiking and camping, the slide hit on land with an access gate that isn't open to the public.