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.
Seems cheap now
That will make it hard to fight the fires that are coming
I'm still looking for a company that lets you buy insurance after-the-fact.
Whatever.
I know! Hilarious! Now, that's a guy with a serious aversion to packing! LOL!
LOL!
Of course, if you get stuck in bumper-to-bumper rush hour traffic, it might be kinda nice to slip into the ole homestead, grab some dinner, freep a little, and then get back to driving. LOL!
The whole area recently had some rain just last week with heavy drizzling expected a couple of days this week.
The more late in the year moisture, the better. As far as fires goes that helps.
Thanks for the ping lainie, this just doesn't end.
I feel sorry for the folks. John Gibson on FOX has
been having update on this.
The house is insurable, the land isn't. Bummer.
not really just adds more fuel a couple of santanna winds and its toast
No way.
You've got to be kidding...
Well, that is why the 4th of July down near there allows zero fireworks.
All the fireworks must be lit off a barge in the ocean and many communities down there do that at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars.
Well, there goes the neighborhood.
Lol. Beat me to it. Good catch.
The whole group, including Summer is safe, sheltered as they are under Peter Galleger's eyebrows!
Oh good, I dont know what I would have done without another season of her and Seth sparring over Cosmic Girl
Now there's a brushfire at Palos Verdes, 120 FF on the incident. No homes threatened.
Another one off the 210 fwy at La Tuna Cyn.
That's Santa Ana winds there, pilgrim! This Santana stuff is baloney. Despite the fact that Devil winds would be el viento del Diablo and Satan in Spanish is Satanás, this article is pretty good.
http://www.losangelesalmanac.com/topics/Weather/we23.htm
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