Posted on 06/01/2005 8:55:57 AM PDT by Howlin
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. - A landslide sent at least five expensive homes crashing down a hill Wednesday and may have damaged many others.
Fire department personnel had no estimate of the damage, and there was no immediate word on whether there were any injuries.
Television helicopter footage showed smashed homes on heavily built-up Flamingo Road. The earth was still moving beneath the homes. Some fell nearly intact, while others were ripped apart and left trails of debris.
The steep coastal area has had slide problems before and several homes were "red-tagged" as uninhabitable in February, during the second rainiest season on record in Southern California.
Laguna Beach is about 50 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
well i did find that on cnn
That explains it!
But then, people would want to move here. Look what that did to Laguna Beach!
My mother lives in the WLA Area and she tells me the coverage is on all news channel.ME Cannot find it on TV and I am in the Oceanside area closer to Laguna Beach?
it was on all the LA channels earlier.
donations for what?
a lady I work with has a "beach house" in Laguna that the family had from the 60s...she always is wish there is a huge fire that takes it out, because it has been labled historic and they can't make any improvements...
now she is wondering if she can rent it out for the summer to these people that lost their homes.
http://nbc4la.feedroom.com/iframeset.jsp?ord=982110
if you have broadband, you can watch live....
300 homes affected
1000 evacuated
do you ever go to titos tacos on washington place?
for the poor and downdrodden in laguana beach
EXACTLY. And how much ya wanna bet they'd do it again if they had the chance to buy on a hill somewhere. People are so stupid.
My grandson lives in Yucaipa. I had never heard of it before they moved there. CA is dangerous!
It sinks.
I hope Summer got out!
Frankly if I owned an insurance business I wouldn't insure homes on Laguna's hillsides. Absolutely nuts building there. The earth there is so sandy and brittle. Many of the homes aren't attached to any bed rock and if they are so what, the earth on top or a sliding house above will take away everything on top of the foundation. Go across PCH on the seashore side where cliff homes cost $5 mil dollars that where closed up, condemned because a nearby gas stations gas tanks leaked and contaminated the soil, weakening it. Living in that paradise isn't paradise after all. You generally sacrifice something in paradise, sometimes you won't know what it will be until it hits you.
"I've been driving through Laguna for years"
I walked in one. You had to walk a long gang plank style walkway to get to the actual entrance. No thanks. I felt very uneasy the whole time I was in that hillside house. Every little crackle or pop noise made me jumpy. An occasional crackle or pop usually means a house is settling which is normal but I don't want to be in a settling house in Laguna.
"Rich California types building in stupid areas. Count me low on the sympathy scale. They probably voted for Kerry and think Babs is an amazing talent."
Humankind everywhere lives with the possibility of a natural disaster event.
Flooks, Hurricanes, Tornados, Tsunamis, Avalanches, Floods, Drought, Extreme Cold, Extreme Heat.
Galveston Texas, about 100 years ago was the largest natural disaster, with thousands killed.
Most of the "rich Californians" were not born rich. They earned it the old fashioned way, using our free market system.
Orange County has the lowest unemployment rate, in this state. Orange County is the conservative stronghold, of California.
Class envy is a liberal ploy.
Laguna Beach is about 12 miles down the coast from me, and I have sympathy for these people. Laguna happens to be more liberal, than other coast towns.
In the context of this disaster, so what if they are more liberal?
Most of the house is foundationed on solid bedrock. Only about twenty feet of the side facing the ocean was on about eight feet of fill.
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