Baltimore landslide engulfs cars in amazing video
An amazing cellphone video has emerged of a landslide in Baltimore engulfing a row of cars.
The wild scene took place Wednesday on East 26th Street after the city received a heavy dose of rainfall. Many residents from the neighborhood believed that what (literally) went down was an inevitability.
Via a witness who spoke with CBS Baltimore, “Several neighbors have called the city over the past year, they patched it with blacktop. But over the winter, because of the snow, it just kept cracking. I got home at 3:30 and there were already several cars, about eight of them, settling into the ground.”
A retaining wall gave way causing the cars seen in the following clip to collapse down onto adjacent railroad tracks.
Some families in the adjacent Charles Village neighborhood could be displaced from their homes for up to 40 days as inspectors work on figuring out what went wrong. The Baltimore Sun reports that the city may provide lodging and food for these families as well as shelter for pets.
Thankfully no one was injured. Here’s the clip again cued up to the moment the whole thing collapsed:
