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'They're going to fall': 12 California homes evacuated after massive landslide
SF Gate ^ | 7/10/2023 | By Amy Graff

Posted on 07/10/2023 9:54:51 AM PDT by NohSpinZone

A massive landslide Saturday afternoon led homes to cave in and crumble in a Southern California neighborhood.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department said at least 12 homes were evacuated due to a sliding hillside on Pear Tree Lane in Rolling Hills Estates, a city in Los Angeles County on the northern side of the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

A video posted by the fire department shows massive damage to the homes.

A house in Rolling Hills Estates on Sunday, July 9, 2023, is severely damaged after a landslide on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles County.

Janice Hahn, chair of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, said some of the homes were pushed off their foundations.

She visited Rolling Hills Estates on Saturday night while the ground was moving. She said she had “never seen anything like” the damage that occurred.

“To think that these homes were intact, you know, yesterday afternoon, and today you can hear the creaking, the cracking, the crumbling,” Hahn said Sunday. “They’re going to fall.”

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; disaster; houses; landslide; palosverdes
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It’s California - they can probably just mail the keys to the lender (debt may even exceed pre-disaster value, so they may come out ahead.) It is possible to get a deficiency judgment in California, but most lenders don’t bother.


41 posted on 07/10/2023 11:36:14 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: hadaclueonce

The video is from this weekend. Pretty bad damage. Looks like an 8.0 quake hit that street.


42 posted on 07/10/2023 11:39:43 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Michael.SF.

The name “Rolling Hills” should have clued them in.


43 posted on 07/10/2023 11:46:13 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: Jim W N

That’s OK, insurance will cover it...well until it doesn’t./s


44 posted on 07/10/2023 11:54:17 AM PDT by Farmerbob
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To: NohSpinZone

Meh...I always heard it was going to slide into the ocean. It is taking far too long for that too happen.


45 posted on 07/10/2023 12:03:21 PM PDT by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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To: dware

More than 50 years ago there was a popular song about California falling into the ocean. People were advised to tie up their boats in Idaho.


46 posted on 07/10/2023 1:02:02 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: I Drive Too Fast

What mess.


47 posted on 07/10/2023 1:08:37 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: Verginius Rufus

I have family in Cali - mostly around the San Joaquin Valley. I’ve told them for many years they gotta get out, because I’m going to throw a party when it finally happens. I tell them I’ll feel bad about it, but I’m still throwing that party. Lol.


48 posted on 07/10/2023 1:42:21 PM PDT by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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To: Sacajaweau

Good point. Lots of names have a correlation with historical fact. If you’re lost in Death Valley in the peak of summer, you might want to be worried.


49 posted on 07/10/2023 1:50:11 PM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
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To: NohSpinZone

We joke about California, but I’m sorry these people are having to go through this.


50 posted on 07/10/2023 1:51:16 PM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
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To: NohSpinZone

trouble is there will be no repreussions for building on a landslide area just like there seems to be no reprecussions when one builds on a flood plain....SOMEBODY else always pays....


51 posted on 07/10/2023 1:52:10 PM PDT by cherry
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To: LouAvul
We joke about California, but I’m sorry these people are having to go through this.

I joke about California all the time and I live here. But I feel for these people whose lives have been upturned. Many families with children are impacted.

52 posted on 07/10/2023 2:17:34 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“One minute you are house-rich, the next you are house-poor. “

Hey, now... you’re coming dangerously close to asserting that migration between socioeconomic categories is actually a thing. You know as well as I do that the L.A. Times et. al. will vehemently deny that to their dying day. If these homeowners can become poor, then for sure there’s poor folks who can escape poverty, and then what would become of all these leftist Poverty Industry Workers?


53 posted on 07/11/2023 1:02:58 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: NohSpinZone

Interesting seeing beautiful x- million-dollar houses getting crushed by nature. All that hard construction labor n work, down the drain.


54 posted on 07/12/2023 6:04:13 AM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence-stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice)
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To: dennisw

Not to worry....... the realtors and developers got their fees


55 posted on 07/12/2023 6:09:10 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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