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.
OMG! Titos was my Favorite Place of all time! Have went there for years! I grew up in Culver City...
Thanks!
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."
I'd say it runs 50/50 there. It's filled with rich republicans, liberal artsy types and a very large gay population.
Did you build on solid ground or the side of a hill? THats the idiocy I have no sympathy for and they all do it.
Any of you rememeber Babs suing to get pictures of her beach etc taken off a surveying website a year or so ago? Good lord I despise her ilk.
The tax assessor may list that, but you can bet that the sale price of that home, BEFORE the mudslide of course, would have been well over $1 million.
Where are The Swish Alps , somewhere in the LA area , right??
LOL..Gretest Place ever..My mom still lives over there
Mar Vista...Use to go to Jhonny's Pastrami also...
Owww, that was so funny.... I hurt!!
Accelerated depreciation?
Just North of San Francisco.
Just because I haven't been posting ,... you think I not here!!??** I've followed "bunko teams" down Broadway , they never knew,until I walked up and said to their mark , "these guys are acting like they don't know each other,right?? Well,..."
There is a video on KNBC of a bunch of people fleeing that house as the hills is sliding out from under them! Looked like 8 people or so....I imagine you need that many incomes to pay the mortgage.
Ah Ha! You're spying!
NOooo , when I was brought to FR , my buddy said, LURK ,and shut up , I don't get in too much trouble that way,... I'd love to respond to some posts but just wait 'n see , it is how I'm learin'
A little more info, to possibility help understand matters.
That property (1096 Flamingo) was last sold in 1987 for $300,000. It was built in 1960.
The owners have a mortgage. There was a big slide very near, in 1978.
Bad things happen to good people.
LOL!! learnin' not the other NYC pastime,LOL!!
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