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This morning there was news that a rock slide had occurred on Wears Valley Road (US Highway 321), just a few miles north of our office (as the crow flies) but in the Wears Valley community.  I had to go that direction to take pictures of a new Gatlinburg area foreclosure that we will soon have listed and this is what I came upon: Note that the fallen rock is a single chunk of the mountain that is at least twice the size of the car that is going by it!  When those signs say, "Watch for Falling Rock", they ain't just whistling Dixie as the old saying goes.  Believe it or not, this picture doesn't quite do justice to just how large the rock really is.  It is a rough cube in shape, approximately as deep as it is tall and wide.  You really could fit about two SUVs within the volume that this rock occupies.  Even more amazingly, the rock came from the rather obvious void visible in the top right corner of the photo.  That's right, it ROLLED to wh...

This morning there was news that a rock slide had occurred on Wears Valley Road (US Highway 321), just a few miles north of our office (as the crow flies) but in the Wears Valley community.  I had to go that direction to take pictures of a new Gatlinburg area foreclosure that we will soon have listed and this is what I came upon: Note that the fallen rock is a single chunk of the mountain that is at least twice the size of the car that is going by it!  When those signs say, "Watch for Falling Rock", they ain't just whistling Dixie as the old saying goes.  Believe it or not, this picture doesn't quite do justice to just how large the rock really is.  It is a rough cube in shape, approximately as deep as it is tall and wide.  You really could fit about two SUVs within the volume that this rock occupies.  Even more amazingly, the rock came from the rather obvious void visible in the top right corner of the photo.  That's right, it ROLLED to wh...

The much publicized rock slide that has closed the southbound lanes of highway 441 between Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg (known to locals as "the spur") is just one of many (albeit the largest) rock slides around the county.  The old funny signs that say "Watch for Falling Rock" aren't so funny anymore as this has become a reality all too often.  In fact, many steep cut banks are losing large and small amounts of rock and causing a lot of damage and frustration.  With three major highways now closed in East Tennessee due to rock slides it seems that there is sudden rash of land moving south for the winter.  Here ares some pictures of the latest rock slide on the Spur: The cause of this latest wave of rockslides is probably the unusually cold weather we have had recently.  With hard freezes comes broken rocks and when the heavy rains followed the very cold weather you have the perfect recipe for moving hillsides.  While our landslides aren't as spectacula...

The much publicized rock slide that has closed the southbound lanes of highway 441 between Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg (known to locals as "the spur") is just one of many (albeit the largest) rock slides around the county.  The old funny signs that say "Watch for Falling Rock" aren't so funny anymore as this has become a reality all too often.  In fact, many steep cut banks are losing large and small amounts of rock and causing a lot of damage and frustration.  With three major highways now closed in East Tennessee due to rock slides it seems that there is sudden rash of land moving south for the winter.  Here ares some pictures of the latest rock slide on the Spur: The cause of this latest wave of rockslides is probably the unusually cold weather we have had recently.  With hard freezes comes broken rocks and when the heavy rains followed the very cold weather you have the perfect recipe for moving hillsides.  While our landslides aren't as spectacul...