Gazost is a tiny village located high in the Hautes-Pyrenees region of France.  On Friday afternoon a reasonably large and quite mobile landslide removed 150 m of the only access road to the village, leaving the 20 or so inhabitants stranded.  Reports suggest that the landslide occurred after a period of heavy snow in February and then rainfall more recently.

Source info: france3 via http://blogs.agu.org/

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