Breaking News: Ahwahnee Hotel Evacuated After Rockfall
All 80 guests of the Ahwahnee Hotel were evacuated this afternoon after boulders tumbled off of The Royal Arches.
Dust from the rockfall briefly obscured most of the valley.
Yosemite’s Chief of Media Relations Scott Gediman said the largest of the rocks was about the size of a microwave oven. No damage or injuries were reported.
Updates:
@Ambitious_wench: Rockfall in Yosemite Valley at about 1:33 PM today, west of Ahwahnee Hotel, guests evacuated. Unconfirmed report of car damaged.
@tracyrene: Major rockslide at the Ahwahnee in #Yosemite right in front of me, yikes!
@sarahnidy: Mom called - huge rockslides in yosemite, ahwahnee evacuated. She's right in the middle of it. Yikes!
fizkid on August 26th, 2009 4:19 pm
love the pictures – i love natural disasters if no one gets hurt. nature is so amazing. thanks for being so current – now that i live so far away it helps a lot. i used to live about 1 1/2 hours away and went there constantly! great job!
johnny on August 27th, 2009 12:21 pm
is mother nature giving us all a freaking clue here!!
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