some kid took one of those really detailed HO train sets with all the little houses and poured sand from the sandbox all over it. Weird to think of nature doing that to real houses where actual people live--awful.
Every time I think of this, turning around and seeing a mountain of earth coming down on you. That scares me. This goes on the list of ways I hope I don;t die.
I was wondering how the mud slide destroyed 15 homes (+ or -). Now I know. They didn't stand a chance. What an awful way to go. I heard a TV news report which said there was a mud slide in this very same location a number of years ago.
19. It much worse than that. La Conchita has had massive mudslides
since the 1800s. Houses there go for $4000 dollars. Can you imagine, $4000 in California - by the beach? Everything else near there goes for a million plus. Tells you something doesn't it. Now they want to rebuild so more people will die in the next big rainstorm. I don't get it. They should just red tag the town and be done with it.
20. There's an area in Palos Verdes also that has land shifts
People are constantly having to reinforce their structures etc.. at a huge cost every 6 months or so, with no guarantee the whole thing won't just slide off into the ocean one day.
I'm all for a beautiful view etc.. but if the land just is not stable no building should be allowed.
You'd think the deaths from all this would be enough to want them to leave :shrug:
21. I agree, I would rather live in my car than take the very real chance of
being buried alive like that. Arnold said the state would do whatever it takes to secure the mountain. I bet he will end up eating those words because even yesterday and today, the land is continuing to slide.
22. Arnold's an idiot.. but I'm sure you know that
:-)
there's too much land that is too unstable to try and 'secure' it. Leave it alone and let mother nature do what she has to with it. There are a million other things that need to be done with any money used to try and hold a mountain back that is hell bent on shifting.
Land movement has been going on since the beginning of the planet - it's not going to stop for idiots who would rather have an ocean view than be safe.
The first time I was ever in CA I visited a Northern CA town (Crescent City?) that had been destroyed by a tsunami in the 1960's. I'll take my chances with GA tornados. They are a sort of random natural disaster. I don't have to worry about floods, fires, mud slides or earthquakes here.
that people were being told "don't ever go back" because it's so dangerous now and they don't know when or if ever it will not be too dangerous to go there.
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