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 ...
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.
The video is from this weekend. Pretty bad damage. Looks like an 8.0 quake hit that street.
The name “Rolling Hills” should have clued them in.
That’s OK, insurance will cover it...well until it doesn’t./s
Meh...I always heard it was going to slide into the ocean. It is taking far too long for that too happen.
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.
What mess.
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.
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.
We joke about California, but I’m sorry these people are having to go through this.
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....
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.
“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?
Interesting seeing beautiful x- million-dollar houses getting crushed by nature. All that hard construction labor n work, down the drain.
Not to worry....... the realtors and developers got their fees
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