YUM!!!
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.
My thoughts exactly!
YUM!!!
Seriously, I feel bad for those poor folks, whether it's a bad idea to live there or not.
Leni
You have no hills or cliffs there. And if you did, those in Florida would build on them.
"You'd have a hard time building on a hillside in Florida!"
LOL-- unless it was a fire ant hill!
"And if you did, those in Florida would build on them."
Hey, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying there aren't stupid people living in stupid structures for the area in Florida. But then, I don't have a huge amount of sympathy for them either.
"It is not class envy by me -- I think it is dumb to build on hillsides and even dumber to rebuild where there was a slide in the past. That has nothing to do with money but lack of common sense and I think that is exactly what a lot of people are thinking."
I see. So people are stupid to live in Oklahoma, because of the "dustbowl" risks.
Stupid to live in Galveston, or anywhere along the Gulf of Mexico, or the Atlantic, for sake of hurricanes. (Galveston site of most lives lost in the history of the US, rebuilt by "stupid" people).
Stupid people all across the globe. Wind, floods, cold, heat, droughts, pestilence.
Check with PhiKapMom to learn where it is safe for "smart" people to live.
Is the Las Brisas Restaurant still there?
I'm looking at a great photo of my wife (then girlfriend) that was taken from the rear of that restaurant looking towards the south.
KCBS TV in Los Angeles reported that yes, it is still moving in some places.
News conference from Laguna Beach town hall is scheduled to begin any time now...
TV? Radio?
What the hell is your problem?
KNX says it's starting now.. the mayor is yakking pleasantries so they'll catch it when she gets to the meat. They went to commerical (1:10p). I am listening to KNX 1070 AM.
Oh, this happens on every post...people who dont live in the disaster area rip on those that do....
What should we check with you for? My guess is pretending to have money.
Thanks, laine.
And that could be said for those that live in hurricane regions, fire areas, forests, near rivers, dams, mouuntains, tornado regions, etc.
Like I told another poster, there are probably tens of thousands of homes along the Cal coast, that have been there for many, many years, and only a small fraction have ever experienced an event like this. Unlike Florida for example, where hurricane's that almost occur annually affect large portions of the state.
Next time we see tornado's ripping through towns, like they do every year, in the Mid West, shall we not offer any sympathy? Should we point fingers at them and call them idiots? Should our sympathy be limited to specific areas, and only to specific natural disasters?
Well, that looks like some sort of high school pettiness.
Listen, you all "feel our pain" during hurricane season (but we hve warnings) so I'm with you all on this one.
kgal = mia lee
Reminds me of the scene from the Holy Grail.
[The King gestures to the window.]
King of Swamp Castle: Some day, lad, all this will be yours.
Prince Herbert: What, the curtains?
King of Swamp Castle: When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. And that one sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Son, the strongest castle in all of England.
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