'Astonishing' collapse sends Rolling Hills Estates homes toward canyon floor
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2023
- Multiple homes in a Rolling Hills Estates neighborhood had slid down the hillside by Tuesday as a major landslide continued to push them into a canyon.
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Building a house on a cliff edge was not a fool proof idea?
What? 🤔🧐
Cause: greed, racism and the hubris of a dominant culture. So steeped in a false superiority that they build homes on “sand.”
Obviously they were spot on when they named the area "Rolling Hills".
Absolutely .
"Sudden Valley"
🤣😔
LA is becoming ugly place homeless corrupt democrats blacks will.get free millions dollars buying vote and criminals is OK only people's from asia think LA is cool place😂
Lol. The first clue.
What is "astonishing" is that people are still astonished by this. Maybe stop building on top of loose soil on landslide-prone hillsides.
exactly. did they think they were the special ones and it wouldn't happen to them?
Cause: greed, racism and the hubris of a dominant culture.
So steeped in a false superiority that they build homes on “sand.”
I'm guessing some political palms were heavily greased!
Nature always wins
Build a house on a canyon edge and cry when your house slides down.
ins must be more than than the house is worth
I think the developer know about the geological structure of the hill, and just sarcastically naming it "rolling hills" and just collect their check from unsuspecting buyer.
The only comfort is that this particular landslide is very slow can you imagine a quick landslide were you can’t even scape. 😨😨😨
Geologist: Turns out you built you home on sand.
Owner: What is this s-a-n-d you speak of?
Geologist: ...
Sand is a liberal conspiracy to destroy family values.
Hey the home owners could all be submarine tourist CEOs
Use your eyes. That's not sand. See it at 47 seconds. Sand doesn't stand up in a sharp-edged cliff like that. I think it's clay, but I'm not familiar with California soils.
@@merryhunt9153 ...it was a euphemism/joke. But, clay (for the most part) is just a highly compacted sand-like granular mat'l. Add enough water and it becomes mud. Conversely, sand cannot be compacted in a manner useful for supporting things like houses.
A dominant culture so steeped in a false superiority that they build homes on “sand.”
Maybe they can save some of those roof tiles
@@doodle8 😄
This place is called Rolling Hills?! ... Can't make this up
Rolling Hill Roll. What a shocker!
These townhomes are in Rolling Hills Park Villas, a gated community. They range in square footage from around 1,700 square feet to over 2,800 square feet and in price from approximately $635,000 to $1,540,000. The least expensive home in Rolling Hills Park Villas is 2,148 sq. ft. with 3BR and 2/half BA at $635K. The most expensive home is 2,338 sq. ft. with 3BR, 2/half BA, and 2-car garage at $1.54 million. The monthly homeowners association fees are about $557/month.
Thank you. I had only an idea.
The association really stockpiling cash.
Wth...I have a 2050 sq foot house with a huge yard and 2 car garage and we paid 238k in 2009. I don't get why people want to live in that part of California.
Wow. It really does live up to its name.
There is no bedrock in the Portuguese Bend peninsula of which Rolling Hills is a part. The substrate has layers of clay! This is not rain or climate change related. It has been happening to parts of the Ca coast for decades. Why did govt regulators issue building permits. Why would anyone risk living there? Who would insure this type of loss? Many hillside and cliff topping homes exist, but they are on solid terra firma or have supporting substructure that goes into bedrock.
Poor little rich people!
Maybe it'll happen to you next. Don't be so insensitive.
@@bonnegomez422 i repeat: Gd does not like the rich who hoard wealth. Also, working hard does not lead to wealth. if that were the case, your success in life wouldn't be impacted more by how rich you were at birth rather than how smart you are, and the hardest working people who have 2-3 jobs wouldn't still be living in poverty. You follow the prosperity doctrine. In our religion, Judaism, there is no interest in loans, amnesty for loans after 7 years, hell does not exist, and sins against other people can only be forgiven by the wronged party, not a god. So it is not up to a god to forgive the sins of rich people's avarice and greed. We are free to do as we see fit unless they atone properly. Only then are we obligated to forgive.
Your religion is not one we are obligated to follow. We are not a Christian nation. You are entirely entitled to be afraid to be like us. We are entirely entitled to be free to express our beliefs under freedom of speech and be free FROM your religion.
@@bonnegomez422 I don’t believe in your god, so I’m good. Thanks. I’m sorry that you’re not rich, although that’s all relative.
@@yannaleyva4554 LOVE it! ✌🏼
These people do not own multiple homes. This is their only home. These townhomes are in Rolling Hills Park Villas, a gated community. They range in square footage from around 1,700 square feet to over 2,800 square feet and in price from approximately $635,000 to $1,540,000. The least expensive home in Rolling Hills Park Villas is 2,148 sq. ft. with 3BR and 2/half BA at $635K. The most expensive home is 2,338 sq. ft. with 3BR, 2/half BA, and 2-car garage at $1.54 million. The monthly homeowners association fees are about $557/month.
they have known this area was prone to landslides for more than 20 years. why they built anything there at all is almost as mystifying to me as how any of the homeowners could be surprised that this happened.
Let's build a million houses on a fault line on a cliff, while climate chaos shifts habitats. What could possibly go wrong?
This is been happening for years many many years
YES! YES! YES! Carefully check the geology!!
Nobody should be surprised when a home built on a cliff-type feature falls into said feature.
Ohhhhh nooooo people with money suffering for buying houses on hills that roll ,like their name indicates.m
Sad but when you build your house on a canyon wall things can go bad
Mother Nature eventually claims back her land.
I feel bad for them! Rolling Hills should have been the first clue.
"Officials and residents said they were stunned." By what? You build houses on a loose hillside and they slide down the hill and you're stunned? Give me a break! 🙄
I admit I have money but I knew better than to live in that area, knowing this can happen.
Its just so tempting, I must admit I've always looked at hill homes with envy. The views must be amazing.
@@YourMom-ll4el So is that ride down the hill.
@@bigtex4058 😬😬
@@bigtex4058 hey, when you have a lifetime living in the shit cities below with non-working appliances including the ac, with a perfect view of those hill homes. The envy just builds up involuntarily.
I am now in a better living situation and glad I didn't get a hill house 😂
That’s what happens when you build on the side of a dirt hill.
The short version of what happened will be a 'violation of the laws of physics'.
Unfortunately, this stuff happens there whenever they get a good rain.
Back in the 70 80s, I watched them building on cliff edges along coast and canyons and they didn't care about integrity of the soft dirt. I remember Nixons mansion built right on the beach in San clementine sliding right into the shoreline. I heard gardener left a garden hose running, sounds fishy to me.
I hope folks can salvage things from their ruins.
I don’t know if that’s possible. A dominant culture so steeped in a false superiority that they build homes on “sand.”
Out of spite, they’re likely to build on an even higher Mount Olympus!
if you build structures on a cliff expect it to fall at some point. It's earth which moves...constantly. At some point there will be a major shift of the earths ground. I'm not surprised this happened. It's inevitable.
They were probably more concerned with the fact their homes are now spreadout alongside the vile beggar commonfolk
i live 25 minutes from there ... i feel so sorry for those multi-millionaires and billonaires
They are not billionaires or multi-millionaires. Many of them are retirees and this is their only home. These townhomes are in Rolling Hills Park Villas, a gated community. They range in square footage from around 1,700 square feet to over 2,800 square feet and in price from approximately $635,000 to $1,540,000. The least expensive home in Rolling Hills Park Villas is 2,148 sq. ft. with 3BR and 2/half BA at $635K. The most expensive home is 2,338 sq. ft. with 3BR, 2/half BA, and 2-car garage at $1.54 million. The monthly homeowners association fees are about $557/month.
So much for the good times. Bon Voyage!
I lived in the South Bay from 1964 to 1979 down the hill from Rolling Hills on th Palos Verdes Peninsula. I had friends up there and went to Marineland a lot. I remember driving up the hill behind a line of dump trucks and later asking a ftiend what were they doing there. He said there's a landfill up there. They dump area by area covering the trash with dirt as they move down hill. Then, they build houses on top of it after "it settles." Somebody needs to start a book on the history of the area. Terrible, really.
Rollin, Rollin, Rollin, Keep them doggies Rollin
No rain in months, I live there. It's dry as a bone. If it was rain caused it would be mudslides and some other cliff homes, there's thousands that could be falling off somewhere else nearby. This is a landslide? No housing dropping straight down 10 feet and from a lot of fissures and there was NO quake. The only quake was hundreds of miles north on July 2nd at 3.8. No landslides there either. Something seems to have caused fissure like a frequency weapon or underground tunnel activity, dynamite on the 4th of July or underground cave in, is all I can think of besides mother earth.
😂
Mother nature taking over these obscene "houses"
How is this a shock?
A friend who grew up in San Clemente , now 82, told me the beach where she played as a child is now gone. Erosion and sea rise.
Nothing can stop IT...😁💪😁💥... The earth don't want them there 🤷🏽♀️
Rolling hills literary
This estate is on a roll!
New show roll this house lol
It lives up to it's name "Rolling Hills" . Million dollars home on a roll. I think the whole neighborhood is unsafe. They are all on slippery slope or one heck up to a sinkhole. A few rains will turn it into a mud slide.
Welcome to Earth , rich people 😮
The Palos Verdes fault line runs right through the Rolling Hills Estates and what looks to be the Carrillo fault line runs through Rolling Hills. I would be very prepared if I lived there.
Well THAT is good! What would be required to flush the rest of that hellscape LA?
Insurance Companies: Surely this was an act of god!
An act of God would be covered. This is not.
Building on engineered fill.
The City should have never allowed that. But greed spoke otherwise.
Landslide , No landslide those homes still worth millions
Its not called "Rolling Hills" for nothing. ah ha... I'm gonna be a great dad.
Living up to its name
Dang! Ya beat me! “Never buy a house in a place called Rolling Hills.”
Insurance companies need to pay them all
Before the houses and landscaping the water would've flowed off , now not so much, weakening the structure of this cliff.
Broken sewer lines. Are there swimming pools up there?
garage sale this weekend! everything is half-off (literally)
What's with all the past participle
I grew up in So. Cal living there most of my life (over 50 yrs. there) and have seen so many times that this kind of thing happens. One would think that if someone were buying a million dollar home, they would put out the extra cash to have assurance (geo study/assessment) of the stability of the ground?!
Reminds me of a D&D adventure I ran once called The sunless citadel. The adventure takes place inside a tower that fell into a rift that opened up in the ground. The tower remained mostly intact because of magical forces but it fell so deep, the sun didn't shine down there.
I would guess that group of homes were on "fill" which the developer pushed out to accommodate the extra lots on the ridge.
thats why developers get rich, sell any kind of ground and run away and do it again
This is awful but it’s the reason you shouldn’t buy a house on a hill!!!!
Looks like it just sank right at the property line! I bet people are trying to sell their houses as fast as possible.
Only people buying are probably corporate housing investors.
Who will rent out the remaining homes for twice a regular mortgage payment.
Unsuspecting people will move in after it’s all prettied-up again.
Correct me if I’m wrong but I think there is a fault line in California? But that couldn’t possibly be the reason the earth is unstable there!
The San Andreas Fault is 60 miles north of here.
@@RaymondHng 60 miles is nothing in geological terms
Sliding into nature's trash compactor
Hey, where are
the looters ?
Love it, keep it going California!
Oh no! What will all the billionaires do without their west coast summer party mansions? I guess they'll have to satisfy themselves by rolling around in the lottery winnings worth of cash they'll get from their insurance payouts.
Just wait till its 🌧 season again
"Stunned"???? Building on the side of a hill in a geologically active earthquake and landslide zone and you are "stunned"??? Typical Kalifornia response. And where did the LA Times "reporter" learn English language usage? Oh, never mind. A Kalifornia university no doubt.
Sad thing is if there is a major fire it will cause a catastrophic slide from the rain.
$1 mil down the drain LMAO ROFL
So sad for all who are being affected. Can't imagine buying a home and just watching it slide apart and into the ground. Developers made their money and are gone now.
HOMEOWNER INSURANCE COMPANIES ARE NOT TO HAPPY WITH THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What's down there
Just call that your basement and build new on top of it!!!
Just remember that it does not only happen in California.
🙏
"Let's build our house on the edge of a hill!"
"Let's build our house next to this creek!"
"Let's build our house on this dune next to the beach!"
"Let's build our house in the middle of Kansas!" (or any other tornado alley area.)
(in unison) "Whaaaaaaa... Our insurance is cancelled? Why? Why?"
The rest of us, "Because we're tired of paying high premiums so you fools can live in areas you don't need to live in."
Literally ROLLING HILLS.
Split level. Hillside and Canyon Floor basement.
EVEN WORSE YOU HAVE TO HAVE SPECIAL COVERAGE ADDED ON YOUR INSURANCE OTHERWISE THESE HOMEOWNERS JUST LOST THEIR ENTIRE INVESTMENT😢
Wow rolling hills mansions collapsed off the mountain or hillside and ended up at the bottom of a hill. 🧐 who would had guessed this could happen.
I guess I'll go somewhere else when I can at least see what's going on instead of all the lettering covering up the picture. I'm noting your happy music
while you depict devistation.
Millionaires who wanted to build in dangerous positions of land.
Time for the American people to bail out the rich... yet again.....
Whaaaaaat? Nobody knows what’s causing these landslides?. On the contrary, there are detailed maps, showing the long lasting slope failure in this region of the Palos Verdes Peninsula. They should never have been allowed to build their mansions on that material. It’s been moving for over 50 years. So get your facts right LA times. I hope they don’t get FEMA money to rebuild their mansions after their stent at the Ritz Carlton.
Aw that's a shame
It is called Rolling Hills for a reason
Oh my Lord, how horrible for those homeowners !! Just horrific !!!!!!
don't worry, they are very wealthy people. THe average home there sells for almost 2 million USD
Don't worry the the rising cost of your insurance and taxes will cover it.
Oh my God boo-boo
There are some seriously sad situations in the world. This isn’t one of them.😊
😳😮😢🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️
Next time build a large tent or live in a mobile home. You can move anytime.
Ava. Hope u ok
"In May 2023, Rolling Hills Estates home prices were up 22.5% compared to last year, selling for a median price of $2.0M."
Maybe the rich shouldn't build houses in places they can't afford to lose it all
For real, I don't feel at all sorry for them. I often say in comments on various videos that maybe one day they will become like the homeless or poor they claim deserve it. I pray it happens to every single rich person. Then and only then will they learn that "whatsoever you do to the least of these people, you did the same to me."
Are these houses a 1 person owner or are Big builders firm ?
@@namename1 Doesn't matter. If it's one person, they can still afford a multi-million dollar house. If it's a firm, they probably have even more money.
@@SunnyAquamarine2 you sound just like another loser who blame everybody's else for their problem, or a person who join riots simply because you want to "get even". most of them are rich for a reason. dedication, persistent, high salary professional. even if shit happens and them ended up on streets, they will get back up and make that money back in no time. Most of them will buy another house in a year or two.
Same logic apply to those homeless people. They are homeless for a reason. Drug addiction, mental illness, plain-and-simple laziness.
@@namename1 These townhomes are in Rolling Hills Park Villas, a gated community. They range in square footage from around 1,700 square feet to over 2,800 square feet and in price from approximately $635,000 to $1,540,000. The least expensive home in Rolling Hills Park Villas is 2,148 sq. ft. with 3BR and 2/half BA at $635K. The most expensive home is 2,338 sq. ft. with 3BR, 2/half BA, and 2-car garage at $1.54 million. The monthly homeowners association fees are about $557/month.
"Unclear as to what caused the collapse.". lol
Twas gravity that caused the collapse. Damn you again, Gravity!
Hey, isn't that our neighbor's house passing by?
And this is not covered by any insurance!!!
I hope everyone was up on their property insurance!
How is it astonishing? 9 months ago, they warned about this
Nobody asked them to build houses there, they should be made cleap up their debris, instead off leaving their eyesore on the Environment!
This is also happening in a suburb of pittsburgh, yes pittsburgh.🙀
Too many structures perched on the edge for a view.