A California man is lucky to be alive after a rock fell on his car he was walking to Monday, according to reports.
ABC station KTLA in Los Angeles, California, reported that Maurice Henao was on his way to get into his car in Malibu when his girlfriend called him and asked him to take her bag that he left inside.
A boulder from a landslide in Malibu, California, crushed the top of a parked vehicle next to the hill where the boulder fell Monday.
(KTTV)
Henao then heard the roar of a rockfall and saw a giant boulder tumble down the side of the hill onto his Toyota sedan.
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The rock landed on top of the car where, if he hadn’t stopped to answer his phone, he would have been sitting.
“That rock is the size of the entire ceiling… it could have hurt or killed someone. I feel like it’s almost a ‘Final Destination’ move, but in real life,” Henao told KTLA.
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The landslide destroyed his vehicle, but he was also concerned about what might happen to his home if a larger landslide occurred.
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“After the roommate saw what happened to my car, they were a little shocked and a little traumatized and said, ‘I wonder if this big mountainside is going to go into the whole house,'” Henao said. . “They saw what happened to the car and they were worried that maybe some rocks would roll over the house and we’d end up in the Pacific or something. So, we were all a little worried last night.”
California has been hit by rains that have triggered landslides along the coast. More than 10,000 people ordered to leave coastal cities on the Central Coast have been allowed to return to their homes. Mudslides had damaged homes in the Los Angeles hills, while further up the coast, a sinkhole damaged 15 homes in the Santa Barbara County community of Orcutt.
