Cutting roads and such into the sides of hills always carries a risk. Sometimes you can have enough knowledge and design for it. Sometimes not. And sometimes people don’t even know or worry about the hazards until too late.
But at some point even the Grand Teton will end up on the valley floor.
Shift happens!
They talk about the higher rainfalls this year. The buildings, roadways, parking lots, etc. also reduce the amount of open land to allow the rain to soak in slowly. Looking at the one house on the nose of the ridge, I can imagine the roof drains and driveway taking all of the water and loading into one portion of the property, and overloading the soils in that area, which would increase the risk of movement.
I understand the desire to live on high points of land like that, or out on the edge of the coast where I live. But one runs a risk depending on the geology.
A buddy of mine had a cabin perched 5 feet from the edge of a 60-foot cliff that dropped down to the water. Solid granite though and all bolted into solid rock.
I don’t know. Made me think of the thread on the earth crust and the earthquake swarms, which ultimately leads to Yellowstone - but hopefully not.
Not my fault!
My M.O. isn’t creeping piles of land.
Climate change is responsible. If we would all drive the Chevy Volt and buy carbon credits from Al Gore and put solar panels on our houses and put windmills on aircraft carriers and improve cow farts,, we could keep the climate from changing. The world would become static: we could preserve it as it is: no mudslides; no El Nino; no hurricanes; no tornadoes; no melting ice caps; no unhappy polar bears; no volcanoes; no earthquakes; and no mudslides; no smog in Beijing; no continental drift. The world would be eternally placid and stuck on neutral.
EVERY DAY WOULD BE EARTH DAY. Oh, the endless possibilities for celebration of the Dirt Spirits!
The downside of stasis, however, is that New York would be stuck with all those potholes forever. Oh, that’s already the case. isn’t it? My bad.
I’m Praying for the town of Jackson Hole.
I have a soft spot in my heart for that place. Got married in the little log-cabin church in the park back in 1970 and spent our honeymoon backpacking up the String Lakes area.
Jackson Hole will just be Jackson because of those creeps.
Any one live in the East Bay and drive along I-80 -580?
Look at the homes in the Berkeley -Oakland hills?
Eventually,all that will come down.
The earth moves.