A possible landslide swallowed nearly a dozen cars on a street in Baltimore on Thursday morning, when one side of the street suddenly slid into a ravine and onto the train tracks below.
Witnesses say the street shook shortly after 3:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday before half of the street "collapsed into the pit" across the street.
The probable landslide comes following a day of heavy rainfall in the region. The Baltimore area received 4 to 5 inches of rain on Wednesday, with flood warnings issued in parts of the area.
"The wall, the lights, the cars–everything parked on that side of the street -- gone," one man told the local CBS affiliate.
“We heard the rumble,” said Jim Correlli, a manager of a storage company in the area. “We jumped up and looked and there was nothing (but) the hole. It had all caved in: the trees, the lamppost, the stone wall.”
No injuries were reported in the incident, which was initially reported by local media as a sinkhole.
The Associated Press reports the cause of the landslide is under investigation, and that cleanup is already underway.
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