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[VIDEO] Terrifying Moment Woman Narrowly Escapes Deadly Roofalanche

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SnowBrains | November 9, 2021
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14-Year-Old Truckee, CA Boy Survived Hours Under 5-Feet of Snow Following ‘Roofalanche’

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On Wednesday night a 14-year-old boy was playing in a snow cave next to his home in the Serene Lakes area west of Truckee, CA, when the snow slid off an adjacent roof, completely burying him. Nobody witnessed the incident but when he didn’t come inside after a few hours, worried family members began looking for him, couldn’t find him, so-called […]

SnowBrains | January 29, 2021
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Man Survived 2.5-Hours Buried Under Snow After Roofalanche in Crested Butte, CO

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On March 8, Alex Theaker was at work in Crested Butte, CO shoveling snow away from a vent on a home when a ‘roofalanche’ slid from above and landed right on top of him. “It just buried me. Immediately I started wiggling and trying to get out and especially with how wet the snow was it just hardened like cement […]

AvyBrains | March 29, 2019
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1 Man Killed and 2 Hospitalized in Separate ‘Roofalanche’ Incidents in Crested Butte, CO

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A ‘roofalanche’ was triggered on the afternoon of Saturday, March 9th  from the roof of a commercial building in Crested Butte South, CO killing one man and hospitalizing another, according to a press release from Gunnison Regional 911 Center. Related: NWS Warns of Dangers of Deadly ‘Roofalanches’ as Atmospheric River Barrels Down on the Sierra Nevada The two men were reportedly clearing […]

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AvyBrains | March 11, 2019
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