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	The Lodal disaster of 1936 Around 4.30 A.M on Sunday, September 13th 1936 another loud bang was heard from Ramnefjellet. What everyone had feared but no onereally believed could happen, had happened again. A new piece of rock,this time with an estimated volume of around one million cubic meters,broke loose 800 meters up in the mountainside and tumbled into thelake. The floodwave this time was much larger, as tall as 70 meters. Whilethe wave in 1905 had split asunder at the Nesodden headland, this oneflowed right over and washed over all of Bødal. All the houses here weredestroyed, both Gjerstun and Raudi which were left from 1905 and all theother farmsteads which had been rebuilt further from shore. 44 people died in Bødal.