24 May 2021 08:00 in mitigation by Dave Petley
Rest and Be Thankful in Scotland: a remarkable bund, 6 m high and 180 m long, has been constructed to protect the Old Military Road from landslides
Tags: Europe, featured, flexible barrier, highway, road, Scotland, UK
22 March 2021 08:39 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Late last week the Scottish Government announced the preferred route corridor for the A83 at Rest and Be Thankful. The road will remain within Glen Croe, but there is a range of options for how it will be aligned.
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30 November 2020 07:31 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In recent weeks the landslide problems at Rest and Be Thankful in Scotland have continued to develop, causing increased disruption
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9 October 2020 07:08 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The problematic A83 at Rest and Be Thankful in Scotland: the cause of the landslide problems that cause repeated disruption
Tags: Europe, featured, highway, road, schist, Scotland, UK
10 September 2009 09:58 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Image from The Times The Scotsman is reporting today that engineers anticipated the occurrence of the Rest and Be Thankful slide this week, shutting down the road before the slide happened. The report suggests that the intense rainfall prompted an inspection of the hillside by engineers because of the previous occurrence of landslides at this site. Once there, the engineers noted that the water in the burn (stream) was discoloured …
Tags: forecasting, landslide report, prediction, Scotland
9 September 2009 12:39 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The BBC has a short video on its website of the Rest and Be Thankful landslide site in Scotland. It can be found here.
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8 September 2009 14:22 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Probably the most infamous landslide event in recent years in the UK occurred in Scotland in August 2004 when a series of landslides occurred, including one on the A83 at the rather delightfully named “Rest and Be Thankful”. The same area was affected again by landslides in 2007. The images from the time were quite spectacular, as shown by the BBC at this web page, which is the 2007 slide: …
Tags: landslide report, road network, Scotland
2 November 2020 08:13 in landslide report, Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Nejapa: a deadly channelised flow in El Salvador on 29 October 2020 killed ten people and displaced 60 families
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26 October 2020 08:37 in Photo gallery by Dave Petley
Recent examples, from India and Vietnam, of the ways in which landslides can affect roads, causing extensive disruption
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28 August 2020 08:39 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 26 August 2020 debris flows induced by intense rainfall hit Charikar in Afghanistan, killing at least 100 people.
Tags: Afghanistan, debris flow, featured, landslide report, western Asia
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