SoBo has seen two landslides this year in quick succession. A survivor of a 1985 landslide at Carmichael Hill, rues the fact that this city never learns from the mistakes of the pastu00a0

The sun was fighting a losing battle against thunderclouds on June 25, 1985. As the rain cameu00a0 down in torrents, a portion of the hill near the plush Usha Kiran building on Carmichael Road broke. A cascade of water, mud and boulders rained down on residents at the MP Mills Compound, Tardeo below. The force was tremendous as the debris crashed down several feet and on to tin roofs of roomsu00a0 in the chawl below, burying residents in mud and snuffing out lives. Arvind Boricha (47), one of those residents who lost seven members of his family in the tragedy, states that Usha Kiran building's swimming pool had filled with rainwater and the restraining wall broke,u00a0 precipitating the landslide. Usha Kiran Society, though, categorically denies that it was the swimming pool that caused the landslide.
(See: Not because of the swimming pool).u00a0


Gone through the roof: Tin roofs collapsed as mud and boulders
rained down on the houses