California landslide sends homes crashing

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California landslide sends homes crashing

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. - A landslide sent 18 multimillion-dollar houses crashing down a hill in Southern California early Wednesday as homeowners alarmed by the sound of walls and pipes coming apart ran for their lives in their nightclothes. At least four people suffered minor injuries.

About 1,000 people in 350 other homes in the Blue Bird Canyon area were evacuated as a precaution.

In addition to the houses destroyed, several homes were damaged and a street was wrecked when the earth gave way around daybreak in this Orange County community about 50 miles southeast of Los Angeles.

“The pipes started making funny noises and the toilet sounded like it was about to explode,” said Carrie Joyce, one of those who fled. “I could see one house, huge, we call it ‘the mausoleum,’ 5,000 square feet or more. It had buckled, the retaining wall in the front of it was cracked. It just looked like the whole house was going.”

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Those hills are fake hills handcarved, filled, and formed by developers trying to make a quick buck. If you want a safe hill to live on try the San Gabriel mountains which is pure bedrock and nothing not even earthquakes could send the houses down on those type of hills.

I dont care if rich folks lose their houses because someone feigned mother nature in the quest for big bucks.

Richard
 
maybe if they move to Tennessee, then Tennessee won't ever get bored, if more people come here and stay.
 
Builds a million dollar house on stilts in a canyon where the ground is unstable is a bad mistake. California biome is Mediterranean climate. In the winter California have strong rainstorms that wash away the soil causing erosion. Due to deforestation and excessive amount of housing built that strips farmland and nature/wildlife....the soil is BARE with no plants and trees to hold it into place. When the spring and winter rains come - the rain strips away the soil because there is not enough vegetation to hold the earth in place. FLOODS mudslides and disaster. Why building zillion dollar houses on the sides of canyons! The biome in California has creosote and chapparell plants that INGITE and burn to germinate their seeds and grow new plants. Wild brush and California mediterranean vegetation has extremely high natural grease content that burns up easily. The heat of brush fires, germinates seeds and new life beings. Bottom line is zillionaire who build houses in that region will have their houses slide into the muddy canyon and burn up during brush fires. Build a house in the flatlands - a reasonable sized house - not a monstrosity with 23 bedrooms. There is huge shortage of affordable housing in California - because mostly the LOT SIZE is too big in suburban houses. To live in Northern California and the size of one new tract house could easily be used to build four reasonably sized houses.

Agree? :thumb:
 
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