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Offline Holden McGroin

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« on: June 02, 2005, 12:59:18 AM »
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LOS ANGELES - Accumulated rainfall from an unusually wet winter most likely triggered Wednesday's landslide that destroyed 18 luxury hillside homes in Orange County's Laguna Beach, scientists say.


Good thing we have expert scientists on this or we would have never known the cause.

I would have thought gravity had something to do with it or maybe a combination of gravity and mud to cause a mudslide, but mudslides are not in my field of expertise.

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« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2005, 01:10:11 AM »
my mixology text says mudslides are cause by a combination of kaluha, bailey's, vodka & a lady with a sweet tooth
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« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2005, 01:51:20 AM »
I blaem Boosh
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« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2005, 03:55:04 AM »
4 MORE YEARS LANDSLIDE YAH WOOHOO8!


Errm...wait, i go this "landslide" all wrong :o
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« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2005, 09:16:09 AM »
Holden was this the same group of experts that determined the tobacco companies targeted women to get them to smoke? Thank God for these experts or we'd have never known that Virginia Slims target women!  

(You've come a long way baby, to get where you've got to baby...

You've got your own cigarette now baby, you've come a long long way)

It's all so insidiously subtle! The tobacco monsters are teh EVIL!

Thank God we have these experts to point out things like rain plus dirt = mud and that cigarettes wrapped in pink packages are for girls, or we'd all be adrift in a sea of ignorance.
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« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2005, 09:19:02 AM »
sides of mountains are prone to landslides ....

let's build our house on one...

no worries though, what their insurance doesn't cover, your tax dollars will
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« Reply #6 on: June 02, 2005, 09:52:40 AM »
Sue the descendants of Newton!
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« Reply #7 on: June 02, 2005, 10:15:34 AM »
News has just reported that mudslides aren't covered in the owners insurance. No company covers it as they consider it an act of God.

Just seems kinda logical that if you build on a steep hillside with soil composed mostly of sand that bad things will happen eventually. Those wacky Californians!!
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« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2005, 11:08:26 AM »
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Just seems kinda logical that if you build on a steep hillside with soil composed mostly of sand that bad things will happen eventually. Those wacky Californians!!


What would you call those who insist on building and rebuilding on the Mississippi flood plain? How 'bout the ones along the Florida and gulf coasts?

It seems, according to your standards, that there's quite a few whacky people in this country :)
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« Reply #9 on: June 02, 2005, 12:50:09 PM »
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It seems, according to your standards, that there's quite a few whacky people in this country :) [/B]


I didn't say that :D

We don't have mudslides in here but floods are every spring bane in northern Finland and also when the ice leaves the lakes it usually takes few berths and sometimes saunas if built near shore with them.
And again ppl build new saunas and leave their berths in the water; hoping they have better luck next spring...
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« Reply #10 on: June 02, 2005, 01:08:21 PM »
Mudslides are just mountain's way of scratching their back.
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« Reply #11 on: June 02, 2005, 02:24:42 PM »
awww...a couple rich people lost their houses because they built them in a dumb place...hold on while I wipe my sympathy tears away:rolleyes:
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« Reply #12 on: June 02, 2005, 02:48:47 PM »
People like to show off. A house built on the side of a mountain looks very cool and posh.  It's also the dumbest place to build one.
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« Reply #13 on: June 02, 2005, 08:58:24 PM »
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What would you call those who insist on building and rebuilding on the Mississippi flood plain? How 'bout the ones along the Florida and gulf coasts?

It seems, according to your standards, that there's quite a few whacky people in this country :)


While that is quite true, the wacky Californians spend MUCH more to do the same stupid thing and then get all surprised when it falls down.
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« Reply #14 on: June 02, 2005, 09:45:00 PM »
Sheeesh, for some reason I feel kinda bad for the people who have lost thier homes- it seems to me if you buy a house you have a reasonable expectation it won't slide down the hillside or the local powers that be would have never issued a building permit for that site. Now they've lost not only thier homes but also thier lots, and they're left with nothing.
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