CLEANUP UNDERWAY Boulder Breaks Free, Creates Extensive Damage
Reported by: Associated Press
Web Producer: Bethany Simmons
Reported: Mar. 21, 2012 2:00 PM EDT
Updated: Mar. 21, 2012 2:07 PM EDT
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Athens
, Ohio
A boulder that broke free form a hillside in southeast Ohio has crushed two vehicles, damaged a house, knocked down utility poles and damaged an underground water line.
The Athens Messenger reports no one was injured when the boulder and debris crashed down about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Athens' engineering and public works director says the family living in the house was home, but in a back area of the house that avoided damage. He says the boulder was about 25 feet in diameter.
The family and residents of a neighboring home are evacuated until crews can evaluate the hillside's integrity.
Mary Diles, who lives nearby, says she heard the boulder break away and at first thought it was thunder, then saw sparks and thought it might be fireworks.
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