{"id":11860,"date":"2014-09-23T07:06:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T07:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=11860"},"modified":"2014-09-23T07:06:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T07:06:53","slug":"joshua-tree-mudslide-california-a-very-lucky-escape-for-a-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2014\/09\/23\/joshua-tree-mudslide-california-a-very-lucky-escape-for-a-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Tree mudslide, California &#8211; a very lucky escape for a baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Joshua Tree mudslide<\/h5>\n<p>Last week a mudslide, triggered by heavy rainfall, swept through Joshua Tree in California.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This video shows an event on the same day at Joshua Tree, though I&#8217;m not sure if it is the same event:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wall of water in Joshua tree\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WczQU-6KuhI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The mudslide swept through the small town, and killed one person who, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.z1077fm.com\/storms-cause-a-fatality-in-joshua-tree-mud-and-flooding\/\">according to the reports<\/a>, attempted to drive across the channel before becoming stuck.\u00a0 The mudslide struck his car, killing him.\u00a0 In the town, the mudslide struck the house of the Scarcy family, sweeping through the building.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.z1077fm.com\/storms-cause-a-fatality-in-joshua-tree-mud-and-flooding\/\">Breitbart<\/a> has an image of the aftermath, showing how the mudslide demolished the rear wall of the building:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11862\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/09\/14_09-Joshua-Tree-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11862\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11862\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/09\/14_09-Joshua-Tree-1.jpg\" alt=\"Joshua Tree\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/09\/14_09-Joshua-Tree-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/09\/14_09-Joshua-Tree-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Breitbart: http:\/\/www.z1077fm.com\/storms-cause-a-fatality-in-joshua-tree-mud-and-flooding\/<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In the bedroom at the back of the house, one year old Tristan Scarcy was asleep when the mudslide struck the house.\u00a0 By the time his parents were able to get into the room he had been washed away.\u00a0 The likelihood of anyone, let alone an infant, surviving being caught up in a mudslide is very low, Tristan was found alive about 60 m downstream of the house.\u00a0 He had some cuts and bruises, and some debris in his lungs, but he&#8217;ll make a full recovery.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A baby had a very lucky escape when a mudslide struck the town of Joshua Tree in California last week, washing him away<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":11862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[137,469,959,48],"class_list":["post-11860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-california","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}