Experts: Wet Winter Triggered Landslide

[Sox62]

Hey honey-let's build our house on the side of a hill with no structure,rocks,or trees to support it.

What could be better?

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Eagler
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

Same thing with those idiots that insist on bulding houses next to rivers prone to major flooding like the Mississippi.

Personally I feel neither Insurance Co's nor our taxdollars should have to pay for either.

You want to roll the dice and build in these areas and you loose, it should be your problem

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by ASTAC
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:

LOL Yup. ok whos got that "cry me a river" pic?

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Airhead
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.

Money can buy you all sorts of things.
Including permits to build houses in stupid areas LOL

and its not like they havent had these landslides before.
We see them on the news every damn year.

What astounds me is even though these events are widely reported. people still buy these houses.

What astounds me even more is how anyone that dumb to buy a house in such an area can still be smart enough to make the kind of money to AFFORD to buy a house in that kinda area

[Drunky]

It's not just the water, the hill, or gravity.

CA has hot, dry summers also.  If the grass isn't burned from the wildfires they have every 2-3 years then the grass doesn't grow a substantial root system due to the lack of water.

Take this 'loose' soil, add some substantial rain, then...viola, someone's house has moved several hundreds of feet.

I find it somewhat strange that people still clasp their hands to the sides of their faces with their mouths wide open (ala Van Gogh's Scream) loudly proclaiming how surprised they are at all the devestation of the has caused.

Come one, it's CA.  A natural disaster occours 2 out of every three years.  Pick one, wildfires, mudslides, earthquakes.

BTW, leading experts are saying CA is due for another earthquake.

[lazs2]

mav... not just those whacky Californians... seems that everythime there is tornado or hurricane coverage they show some trailer park villiage that has been flattened with everyone saying "how could this have happened?"

we do have another odd California housing quirk tho... People will buy homes with water marks half way up the walls and be shocked when a flood wipes em out.

lazs