Photo: Tareom
On Tuesday evening, January 21, 2014, the life of Trebo Herbert and his family was rocked when giant boulders crashed into their house in Tramin, northern Italy.
A landslide dislodged the boulders and sent them hurtling down the hillside, straight at the Herbert's home. Two boulders hit and flattened a 300-year-old stone barn and destroyed farming equipments. Another one stopped just inches short of hitting the main house, and thus miraculously spared the family's life.
Herbert, an owner of a local farm, told journalist that the rockfall "sounded as if a train had thundered through the living room."
The three boulders left huge gashes in the vineyard that the family had spent years planting, as can be seen in the areal photography and video taken by Markus Hell of Tareom using a drone.
View more amazing photos of the rock fall over at Tareom's Facebook gallery | Donation page for the Herbert family.