She points to an area all in red, a risk zone for more mudslides.
The road showed evidence of being hit by mudslides that had since been cleared.
The trees protect the neighborhood from floods and mudslides, which claim more Haitian lives every year.
Mudslides and forest fires that followed the earthquake appeared to be the final straw.
Coastguards have been dealing with a number of landslips and mudslides in Dorset and Devon.
Glacial melting has led to flooding and thawing permafrost has led to mudslides.
In Rio de Janeiro state, flooding and mudslides turned the once-picturesque tourist town of Teresopolis into a wasteland.
As far as worst-case scenarios, I thought of earthquakes, wildfires, mudslides and movie-star houses cascading into the ocean.
Victims were either swept away by the rising waters or buried in mudslides caused by the unseasonable downpours.
And the coastal state of Vargas still bears the scars of the 1999 mudslides that killed some 30, 000 people.
The storm could cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides, the hurricane center warned.
The mountains will help induce more rain and will funnel the precipitation -- intensifying flooding and causing an even greater risk of mudslides.
In Brazil more than 100 people were killed after hours of torrential rains triggered mudslides in Rio de Janeiro state.
So many trees have been cut down for charcoal that there's nothing to stop heavy rains from causing mudslides and flooding.
Even in Maputo city, poor drainage and illegal building meant that the rains caused mudslides that destroyed houses and blocked roads.
Network Rail staff had to leave the scene in Teignmouth after further mudslides made it too dangerous to inspect on foot.
And bad storms can still leave resorts inaccessible: last year, floods and mudslides closed one of the main highways to Lake Tahoe.
Potentially dangerous flooding and mudslides were a threat, the Hurricane Center said.
Reports of the flooding disaster in Venezuela are accompanied by aerial pictures of towns along the northern coast ruined by the mudslides.
In those cases, the roads are less frequented for a reason: read on for terrifying drop-offs, unpredictable mudslides and a complete lack of concrete paving.
In another sign of the devastation, a nearby mountain showed two streaks of red clay apparent mudslides that appeared to have wiped out all vegetation.
Melting glaciers have recently unleashed deadly mudslides, rare ecosystems are threatened, and a lack of snow is crippling economies that depend on winter tourism.
Unusually heavy seasonal rains have caused rivers to burst their banks, mudslides and power cuts across much of the north and east of the country.
Disasters such as Grasberg's mudslides also took their toll on production.
Rainfall could cause "life-threatening" flash floods and mudslides, the center said, with some spots along the Oaxaca coast likely to get 12 to 15 inches of rain.
It is the main story for The Independent , which describes the floods and mudslides as one of the worst natural disasters in South America this century.
There, mudslides and raging rivers swept away shantytowns perched on steep slopes of the lush Avila mountain and left tall buildings marooned in a sea of rock-hard debris.
So extensive were the wet-season mudslides that in some years more mud and rock fell back into the canal than had been taken out in the first place.
To make matters worse, more than 100 were killed and hundreds made homeless in the state this week as hours of torrential rain triggered mudslides in poorer areas.
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