Avalanche comes down on chairlift

[carbonXshell]

Must've been pretty scary for the people on the lift...

 

[mriceyman]

Treed

 

[goldsbar]

That illustrates the power of an avalanche really well. BTW, when it stops, all that snow turns into cement.

 

[SIKSKIER]

Amazing they never stopped the lift.Maybe the operaters were running away?Still think they would have hit the stop button if they bailed.

 

[Mapnut]

I don't know whether they had time to think of this, but the chairlift was traveling up out of the avalanche path. So letting it run might have saved a few riders from getting buried. Any mot on casualties?

 

[bvibert]

I don't know whether they had time to think of this, but the chairlift was traveling up out of the avalanche path. So letting it run might have saved a few riders from getting buried. Any mot on casualties?

That's what I was thinking. They may have purposely left it running as long as they could to get as many people out of the avalanche zone as possible.

 

[TropicTundR]

Is that N. New Hampshire or Maine?, the first lady spoke with a NJ accent, but the guy's accent screamed Boston-Italian.