Oh give me a home, where the hills do not roam. And the ground lies flat every day . . .
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.
Stooooopid, isn't it?
***I guess this falls under the category of your basic act of God, eh?***
Or perhaps an "act of the stupidity of man".
God didn't build those houses there!
:)
yup , but oh well , I'd like to live somewhere else , but here we are now ,and YES, there are FReepers in NYC ,LOL!!
No but when it gets dark bad people will sneek in and get stuff
Yes there are GOOD Freepers there....!!!
I'm old enough to remember , "looters will be shot!!" , and that did tend to almost stop looting
My stepmother lives in the Laguna Beach area (& some of her friends). I'd better give her a call.
heh heh.. Air America headquarters.
Speaking of which, I just got around to watching "Left of the Dial" last night. It was hard to take but interesting. I see Lizz Winstead filed a lawsuit against them last week. Ahhhh, implosion.
Oh give me a home, where the hills do not roam. And the ground lies flat every day . . .
I hope they will. Local TV discussed one lone man who is refusing to leave his home, and that cops/sheriff departments aren't able to physically go in and drag him out of course. It's his choice, but with no utilities and the fact that rescuers have moved on, he probably won't be in there long.
Hi, I contacted friends who have a vacation home in Three Arch Bay near there.
Everybody knows that where those homes are sliding is very unstable.
Reaffirms the old CA adage that the most expensive property in CA RE is often located on the most unstable land.
Even left the curtains up ,LOL!
I was living in Michigan where a tornado went through. Helicopters flew overhead all night watching out for looters, and cops blocked the entrance to the subdivision.
Laguna is gorgeous. Among the best shorelines in the United States.
This happened off the coast back in some hills that are pretty steep. With all the rain, this wasn't a surprise IMO. I told lots of friends slides would still be coming maybe through September.
Count yer lucky stars
Not too far away from the area you describe, I remember Westpark out by Gessner in the early 90's having some severe pavement heaving - the ground settling. The same applies to the Alkek Velodrome (near Barker-Cypress and Katy Freeway). When the drome was built, the dirt was just piled up, and the concrete was poured (at least rebar was used). No underlying drainage (either porous pipe, or a layer of caleche over the dirt berm). As a result, the ground settled, resulting in a lot of cracking, water geysers out of the cracks since the dirt is saturated, etc. Built cheap, fast, and high maintenance.
Yes, Clinton's giant erection of a museum.
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