A landslide triggered by heavy rain and wind took down trees next to an apartment building in downtown Juneau late Wednesday night. Although this slide didn’t damage homes or hurt anyone, people living in the building are calling it a near miss.

On Thursday afternoon, Dave Bonilla stood outside the Strasbaugh Apartments on Gastineau Avenue smoking a cigarette and gazing at a gash in the mountainside adjacent to the building. He has lived there for more than five years.

The night before, a torrent of soil, rocks and large trees slid down Mount Roberts, barely missing the building. Bonilla said he really didn’t know what had happened.

“I have no idea,” he said, laughing. “I was asleep, and it came down, I guess woke everybody else in the building up — but I was out.”

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