Just before the turn of the 21st Century, unprecedented torrential rains fell over the "Cordillera de la Costa," North of Venezuela. The downpour not only lasted for weeks, but each day seemed to be worse than the other. The mountains that separate Caracas City from the Caribbean Sea absorbed the falling water until December 16th, when they couldn't take more, exploding like a volcano. A devastating tsunami-like mudslide and huge boulders weighing...