if I lived in Cally, I'd sleep with my clothes on.

[KG]

Calif. landslide sends 18 homes crashing

By BEN FOX
Associated Press Writer

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- 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." MORE>>>

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[m0nkeyneck]

1. most of us don't..

live on cliffs

[Der Blaue Engel]

2. or own multimillion dollar homes

n/t

[KG]

4. what? isn't everybody in CA tree-hugging liberal millionaire movie-star?

who knew?

[CottonBear]

5. Those look like maybe &175,000 - $200,000 homes in GA.

For a couple of million you could buy a huge farm with a nice big house and barns.

[CottonBear]

3. What happens to your mortage when the house and land are gone?

I mean, there's nowhere to rebuild? Even if you could rebuild, a tsunami, earthquake or brush fire could take you out.
:scared:
I feel safer here in NE GA with just the occasional deadly tornado. I don't live in a flood zone so I don't have to worry about flooding.

[one_true_leroy]

9. of course, if it keeps raining here in NE GA,

we both may have to eat your words!

and yeah, the real estate dollar stretches a little better here.

[CottonBear]

11. It's raining as we speak!

I spent three hours in the rain tonight repairing a fence at the farm where my horse lives! I'm ready for some sun. I'm gonna have to mow grass like crazy in about 2 weeks!
:)

[Gormy Cuss]

16. You eat the mortgage.

You can't buy regular homeowner's insurance for earth movement risk. There are separate expensive policies for earthquake insurance; there may be same for slides.

The house is a total loss but the land is still there, It just has a different topography. You'd be surprised what that slippery slope is worth even today. With a little grading and a new survey the land would sell for top dollar. Location, location.

[WillyT]

13. Most Of Us Don't Sleep With clothes On !!!

:shrug:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

6. Da roof! da roof! da roof is

in the basement...

Sorry.

Kinda. Mebbe. Sorta. ;)

[BiggJawn]

7. Not me.

But I'm a bit of a show-off anyway...

Not that I'd be living anyplace that was in danger of sliding into the ocean.

Not on MY paycheck.

[Cleita]

8. This is has happened in California along the coast in the past.

The most recent landslide before this one was at La Conchita. People insist on building on these cliffs for the ocean view. (La Conchita was built up a against a cliff that came down on top of the little town.) When the ground is dry, they are fine, but one wet rainy season will saturate the ground enough to cause landslides. They really should pass laws against building on those places or under them.

Besides why should the rich have all the great views? These land areas should be converted for use for the public, like for picnicking, hiking and camping. If a slide occurs, then a few picnic tables go with it, quite different than million dollar homes. Now these guys are going to be looking for federal assistance because their insurance won't cough up the dough. It happens all the time.

[Gold Metal Flake]

10. Every time it rains heavily out here....

In Laguna Beach or Laguna Nigel or Laguna Whateverthefuck houses fall off cliffs. You would think that with a history, a well known history, of such happenings that people would live on less mobile soil. Naa.

Oh, well. Just means the rest of us have to come up with more insurance premiums.

Oh, listening to the news, they always say "homes destroyed, some of them high-priced". That's because the loss of a high-priced home is more tragic than the loss of a median-priced home.

[ObaMania]

12. It really breaks my heart to see..

.. multimillion dollar homes go crashing down in a landslide.

Boo f'n hoo.

Gee, you think a homeless person's box shelter is caving in under some heavy rain somewhere in 'murica tonite?

[Cleita]

15. That area is mostly Republican too. n/t

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

14. "...18 multimillion-dollar houses crashing down..."

:rofl: