We had one rock in the road... now we have no road!

This is the 2nd major rockslide in this part of the country in three weeks.

How can anyone be taken seriously with such a goofy accent? Admittedly, I've got a prejudicial problem with that but...come on! It's just plain silly.

>> ^shuac:
How can anyone be taken seriously with such a goofy accent? Admittedly, I've got a prejudicial problem with that but...come on! It's just plain silly.


I'll forgive you because I grew up a yankee, and I know how hard it can be to overcome that prejudice. For example, when I was in college, we had an engineering professor who, in addition to being a former NASA employee, had also worked on the Apollo missions. He also had one of the thickest Texan accents I've ever heard. It was very odd to hear "you can solve these differential equations using a simple LaPlace transform," in that voice. Eventually (actually, rather quickly) I got over it and heard the words more than the voice.

I've been in the south for quite a few years now, long enough that when I go back up north I wonder "what's wrong with these people!?!"

I'm a yankee-born southerner as well. Born in NY, live in Atlanta. Been in the south since '94 and many times, I still can't understand what the hell they're talking about.

My favorite is when someone from the carolinas goes to change the oil in their car. They'll pronounce "oil" as though it rhymed with "girl". "I gotta change the earl in my coor." It's too fuckin' funny.

Moving this video to garmachi's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

Oh no you don't. This is nature in action! A rare event when considered from the scale of human time. And for a camera crew to be on hand as it occurs? This is something everyone should see!

*beg

Also, because erosion is the evolution of the planet, and because the footage captures what could have (but thankfully not) resulted in dozens of deaths, *eia.

Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter garmachi.

For what it's worth, Sifty ignored my eia request. Was it because it was parsed after the beg? Or am I crazy? Or both?

*promote

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by original submitter garmachi.

Here's a aerial photo of the rockslide. Much bigger than it looks in this video:

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/6726/rockslide.jpg

I think his accent was hilarious, and thank goodness that the rock crusher machine wasn't still in that spot when the whole thing slid.

*quality

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by gwiz665.

Dang dun der did it yessery! Thank Jesus nubudy did get hert!

Perseverance pays off. It took over 3000 views, a beg and a promote just to escape the queue, and hours later, look where we are!

Someday the sift will learn to trust me.

"Honest occifer, the tree ran out in front of me!"

"The mountain done came off."

And that's why he's the foreman!

Rockslides always amaze me. Earth and rocks don't usually seem very fluid.

It done come off real good!

As a Southerner born in Alabama (yes, they have hospitals) and raised in Georgia (yes, we have schools) his accent is pretty soothing - almost like a "comfort accent," if there could be such a thing. A deep South Georgia/Florida everglades accent would be much harsher and is sometimes difficult even for native Southerners to understand.

Amazing!

Also see this (bigger) landslide
http://www.videosift.com/video/Landslide

What is that... shale or slate?

>> ^Nebosuke:
What is that... shale or slate?


It's Shate.

they tuk er rerrrrrrrrd...

Don't agree with the EIA tag here. Everyone was just doing their jobs, no stupidity and thankfully no harm done. Can't see how it applies.

morons, shame that area is to be closed forever....I've ridden that road on a sport bike and loved to ride that area of Georgia...accents are what make us all unique.....northern accents are as funny.....like how fa {far} is it to the ca {car}
it is a loss of a great recreation area..maybe they will get it back open one day...
rockinrod

"The mountain has came off"

Yes it has.

*rocknroll

Adding video to channels (Rocknroll) - requested by calvados.