{"id":15604,"date":"2017-08-25T12:20:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T07:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15604"},"modified":"2022-12-13T14:14:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T09:14:20","slug":"irish-woman-escapes-landslide-that-threw-car-through-kitchen-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15604","title":{"rendered":"Irish woman escapes landslide that threw car through kitchen wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>URRIS, Aug 25 (TNS):<\/strong> Torrential rains in northwest Ireland, described by the country&#8217;s weather office as a once-in-a-century event, triggered a landslide that sent a car flying through the wall of a house today.<\/p>\n<p>No casualties have been reported as a result of the rains which totaled up to 80 mm (3 inches). Bridges collapsed, homes flooded and authorities moved to deploy defense forces in flood-hit areas from Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Bernie Kearney, a medical receptionist who lives in the northern county of Donegal, was dining alone in her kitchen evening when a landslide hit the hill beside her house.<\/p>\n<p>Kearney said in a telephone interview that she heard a loud bang and &#8220;the kitchen tumbled in around me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll never forget it. It was terrible. The roar of it coming down the mountain. I didn&#8217;t know what it was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kearney escaped by climbing out a window. She was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>In the light of day, Kearney discovered that the landslide had thrown a boulder against her car, pushing it into her kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>The damage was captured in Reuters pictures that show her silver hatchback sitting high on a pile of mud and rubble, with its roof touching the eaves of her bungalow. The property has been condemned.<\/p>\n<p>Kearney is staying with relatives while searching for alternate accommodation and dealing with her insurers. Local authorities have been attempting to clear rubble from the property.<br \/>buy augmentin online <a href=\"https:\/\/dentalassociatesmn.com\/wp-content\/themes\/dental-assoc\/inc\/php\/augmentin.html\">https:\/\/dentalassociatesmn.com\/wp-content\/themes\/dental-assoc\/inc\/php\/augmentin.html<\/a> no prescription<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>URRIS, Aug 25 (TNS): Torrential rains in northwest Ireland, described by the country&#8217;s weather office as a once-in-a-century event, triggered a landslide that sent a car flying through the wall of a house today. No casualties have been reported as a result of the rains which totaled up to 80 mm (3 inches). Bridges collapsed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,838],"tags":[108,839,733],"class_list":["post-15604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-urris","tag-tns","tag-urris","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110589,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15604\/revisions\/110589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}