An unoccupied bungalow cracked in half and tumbled over an oceanside cliff Wednesday as this small Newfoundland town was hit by another in a series of landslides.
The crumbling, 30-metre bluff also gobbled up a chunk of Route 430, the only main road through the town, leaving most of the communities on the island's Great Northern Peninsula temporarily cut off from the rest of the province.
Two sheds also toppled down the steep, dark embankment and a number of other homes face the same fate.
Local officials have suggested that warmer temperatures have loosened clay soil in the cliff and migrating meltwater is washing away the earth at a rapid rate.
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