Building homes on hillsides and near cliffs is one of the dumbest things humans do, hillsides and cliffs are ALWAYS in the natural process of erosion. Earthquakes push the hills and mountains upward and the rains wash them down, no hillside is permanent.
Terrain is not steep at that location. Looks like a slippage of soil that was compacted to carve out a lot for that home. It's not an ideal location for a home.
The destroyed house sold for $1.8M in ‘21 and Zillow “currently” values it at $2.5M. It looked like a nice California Ranch style with a stone veneer facade from the entry side but photos from two bedrooms and an exterior shot of the rear literally shows a steep, bare hillside butted directly against the house looming above it.
Also, do *NOT* build any homes in Tornado Alley, in the Mississippi River flood planes, on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, and definitely not anywhere in Florida.
Thank you they already had a nice home that decided to build a bigger one and this is what they get and how we as public taxpayers have to pay for emergency services for these rich insurance jobs
Insurance should not cover to build on these sites. It is a gamble. At your own risk ! Most of these people have money to waste, so it should not be an issue.
they Don't, but its their job. Don't worry if they get so much as a small cut they can spend years getting paid for staying home and retire early with MORE than full pay.
Visiting friends acquaintances or other reasons to be driving in LA hillside neighborhoods..always marveled at the willingness of people to live in homes perched on edge of hillsides. Recall visiting a couple who’d just adopted kitten from rescue group I worked with..I had to park at bottom of steep driveway to their home and sitting inside their living room it was perched over air..an illusion yet breathtaking and scary at the same time.
You’d think it would be illegal to build a giant mansion on land susceptible to landslides. Like aren’t there architectural permit offices that supposedly prevent people from building whatever whereever? Or did they pay off someone to be able to illegally build here? This kind of thing is going to become more and more common as people build more and more and more large buildings in mudslide and earthquake zones.
Some of them aren't that big, though, not at Rand and Ventura Canyon. I'm sure there are some rich goofballs going in there and messing it all up, though, like they do elsewhere.
For the meantime all CA homeowners need to pay insurance premiums that has gone up to the roof to pay for the poor choices of these homeowners who chose to live by the edge of a cliff when they know it's not safe!
Can you even get insurance for something like this? I know you have to buy flood insurance first, then the mudslide/landslide is separate and based on risk. Tough to find a carrier.
All of California is unstable land. I remember in geology class 35 years ago,they said California will at some point, slide off into the ocean….at some point. hopefully this isn’t ‘at some point..’
@@bngr_bngr looks like old Sea Bottom Mud to me. I grew up in Northern California and have only been around Sherman Oaks a bit, but I have seen big Black Oaks just upturn in storms, so it may be similar. Around Malibu I remember it was miles of Tuff- I would drive pilings if I was building on a slope there.
Really? I lived in the valley 40 years ago, and there were never mudslides like this. Many of the homes in Ventura Cyn. and Topanga Cyn. were well over a hundred years old then. They never collapsed. Could it be that formerly stable land is now unstable, due to fires that burned the vegetation retaining the soil?
Well, the rich can recover a lot sooner than the poor. And if some of them got their money by deception or working the poor to death in sweatshops, then...boo hoo.
@Mr.President.2028 LOL you need to replay the clip. That chopper reporter straight said that pool was empty. The one with the pavement cracking away from the house and pool. I know I don't need my eyes checked. Come again sir. 🧐🙄🤗
That's so devastating.I live in Florida.You never know when a hurricane's gonna get you or not.So I feel for these people in California.I'm sorry this is happening to you
Paving over terrain for a tennis court & pools on the side of a cliff has not helped the situation with global warming. Rain needs somewhere to go. Dealing with my own coastal flooding issues I ripped out lawn in favor of native plants and added rain collection to my gutter system. With mcmansions cropping up around me causing more drainage issues it is a full job bringing in more dirt & plants to make up for what they pave over. Code enforcement in every city needs to consider how much paved surface is in the area before allowing new development. Add tax credits for going native, removing paved surfaces like pools & tennis courts and utilizing rain collection. Require new development to build green space for run-off while limiting new space to be paved.
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I still don't understand why people are allowed to build homes on hills, in mountains on sea cliffs and then complain when Mother Nature does what she's supposed to do. This is why insurance is so high in California. People are paying for jerks who build homes where they shouldn't and the loss is passed on to everyone else. If you choose to build your home on a beach, cliff, hill, mountain you should pay the most expensive insurance and sign a waiver that you take full responsibility for the cost when it falls down, slides down, burns down, and crumbles down.
@@anon-w9la few years ago my insurance stopped. I had no claims, were on a hill so no flooding ever anywhere near my place. No forest fires either. Had to find another and it cost be twice as much.
Significant rains this year super saturated the soil. They should change the name of the Fire Dept to Department of emergency services because I don't see a fire here
5:11 - 5:18 How utterly quaint, 'old school' and indeed charming to see a diving board at this home's pool. Most of us are under the impression the lawyers and liability insurance companies had completely eviscerated diving boards that until late in the last century provided playful, fun, skilled athletic diversions at most residences', hotels' / motels', colleges' / universities', summer camps' swimming pools. The Las Vegas Strip hotels' pools thoughtfully offered high dives, no doubt enticing future Olympians. "Good Luck" to the affected residents and home owners. In dealing with YOUR insurance policies' full coverage as well. And "Thank You" to LAFD for minimizing damage and preventing additional hillside catastrophes; plus KTLA 5 for updated, reliable field reporting.
Average cost per square foot in Sherman Oaks - $761. I mean the American oligarchs who live in Sherman Oaks can just live in their second or third homes right now. Santa Fe? Aspen? Montana? That NYC apartment?
When people realize they just can’t build house any place you like especially if you don’t find out about the land history first there is history of our land people
An average home swimming pool is about 20,000 gallons and custom pools average around 30,000 gallons. That is 160,000lbs and 240,000lbs respectively, removing a quarter million pounds of dead load pressure is more than a good idea.
I lived in CA for 13 years, used to fly R/C gliders off the cliff in Palos Verdes, and if you aren't familiar with the land composition, you'd understand why it gives way so much once you see it. Ever seen the old movie "It's a mad, mad, mad, mad, world"? The opening sequence on the road where Jimmie Durante drives over the edge and crashes? I've been on that road, you can see where huge sections of the road has slid down the hill 50 feet and you're standing on the replacement of that section. And there is another section sitting below that section where that road slid down before. The ground is a sedentary rock type, and the sediment that formed it is, basically, sand, built up over eons and compressed into hard rock. So it crumbles and erode very easily. The cliff I flew off I'd had to descend a couple times to retrieve my plane, so I could see up close what it was made off, and the dirt eroded from the cliff collected on its slope is a dry, dusty, sandy soil that my feet would sink into - no real support to it. So, yeah, building on the edge of those cliffs is, to me, the height of stupidity. ESPECIALLY when you are prone to earthquakes!
Rich or not, it's heartbreaking to lose everything you have in one fell swoop. *For those who are gloating and cheering the misfortune of these people, never forget, "there but for the Grace of God go I."* It could be you.
since landslides are not covered by regular insurance what ultimately happens to these people? do they literally lose everything? Obviously the lot cannot be sold because it doesn't really exist any more.
You need what is called a Difference in Conditions policy because a mud/landslide is not covered by a regular Homeowners, Flood or Earthquake policy. Absent that specialized type of policy your only hope is to recover from a negligent third party.
I feel pretty safe to make my comment after reading others. I now live in Las Vegas after being run out of California, so there's no love lost. We have to give up our lawns and trees' not to mention flowers and the such because California "needs or wants" more water. That's right, Cali gets most of the water than dry Nevada. Looks like they have too much water on those water soaked crumbling hills. Payback is something else.
Lived in LA 70S-90S..Drove through that area often...There were many areas I thought would eventually "wash away" certainly along Pacific Coast Hwy but never this area.
Taking water out of a pool is not a great idea. The water pressing against the sides is what keeps the sides from collapsing due to the pressure of the dirt around it!
@ 1:37 & on I see a Wooden " Stick Framed Addition " Ruined by this Mud Slide ! I guess the Contractor will have to " Junk " All the work that he has done. Only to have another Contractor come in & Get the wood from that Junk-yard !
How about not issuing building permits for land on unstable slopes?
It wasn’t unstable when they did the structural engineering report.
Where's the money in that? This country is capitalist, if you have the money, you have the right.
How about not playing armchair quarterback?
Tiny landside anyway, nothing to see here.
Mr capitalism doesn't care
Building homes on hillsides and near cliffs is one of the dumbest things humans do, hillsides and cliffs are ALWAYS in the natural process of erosion. Earthquakes push the hills and mountains upward and the rains wash them down, no hillside is permanent.
And, living along a river or in a flood plain.
Mountains too the sea .
Every ten million years the valley floods.
@@frederick6008That was necessary for the development of human agriculture, building on hills was never necessar
More money than sense in COMMIEFORNIA!
Terrain is not steep at that location. Looks like a slippage of soil that was compacted to carve out a lot for that home. It's not an ideal location for a home.
The destroyed house sold for $1.8M in ‘21 and Zillow “currently” values it at $2.5M. It looked like a nice California Ranch style with a stone veneer facade from the entry side but photos from two bedrooms and an exterior shot of the rear literally shows a steep, bare hillside butted directly against the house looming above it.
Maybe having a swimming pool on the hillside was not such a good idea. the weight of the pool put a huge stress on the hillside.
absolutely, seems the pools caused more damage than the sliding houses. As pools move the water rolls side to side causing motion damage.
At water at 8 lbs/gallon is was a great stress. How do they get permits for this!
We need to discuss what Gushing down the driveway is.
Don’t build your house on a slippery slope
or on sinking sand do not build your house
next to a lake if the water level is higher than your lot
Thank you father.
my insurance premium will go up thanks to their negligence and dumb choices!
But we like the view...
They have lot of money rebuild easily everyone is rich in CA along the coast.
@@wendybutler1681 does the view get better the further you slide down the hill ?
LoL 😂
Google Sherman Oaks liquifaction soil. It's a big problem there with wet soil or earthquakes.
Any chance it is near Oprah's billion $ mansion ? She probably has special protection from her mentor, Lucy.
Only one is Red Tagged ?
They have all got to be in jeopardy
One tag a day........
I'm surprised that insurance companies still insure hill/cliff side homes in Kalifornistan.
They pass the cost off on we that build on flat lands.
From what I've read, insurance companies are not renewing policies.
Also, do *NOT* build any homes in Tornado Alley, in the Mississippi River flood planes, on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, and definitely not anywhere in Florida.
@@DemPilafianOr anywhere. This is a death planet, just trying to kill us in any way possible.
This is what greed looks like and everyone else has to pay higher prices for insurance
Home insurance doesn't cover landslides.
Uh, look at the slums in Tijuana… many are built on hillsides…
Thank you they already had a nice home that decided to build a bigger one and this is what they get and how we as public taxpayers have to pay for emergency services for these rich insurance jobs
All this money could go to homeless for their drugs and alcohol enjoyment.
Insurance should not cover to build on these sites. It is a gamble. At your own risk ! Most of these people have money to waste, so it should not be an issue.
“Castles made of sand…. Slip into the sea…. Eventually….” - Jimi!
He also said, _"You'll never hear surf music again"._ And you know what? I haven't.
That reporter needs a class on what gushing water looks like..she took a stream of water and calls it gushing...
Facts
🎯 gushing? Where? 👀 More like seeping! 🤣😂🤣
@@borountree4539 trickle ... Turn that thang on
Right! 😂😂😂
By her account, that road was inundated.
Those firemen are very brave to stand on that, how do they know it’s not going to move again under their feet?
I think the instincts of these people are exceptional when it comes to sensing the stability, etc of stuff like this. At least it seems so to me.
they Don't, but its their job. Don't worry if they get so much as a small cut they can spend years getting paid for staying home and retire early with MORE than full pay.
They are not "feeling it".......
NOT BUILDING YOUR HOMES OR LIVES ON A SOLID FOUNDATION CAN HAVE CATASTROPHIC EFFECTS...
' Where does that home stand right now ' It's not standing anywhere, it's lying down there.
Visiting friends acquaintances or other reasons to be driving in LA hillside neighborhoods..always marveled at the willingness of people to live in homes perched on edge of hillsides. Recall visiting a couple who’d just adopted kitten from rescue group I worked with..I had to park at bottom of steep driveway to their home and sitting inside their living room it was perched over air..an illusion yet breathtaking and scary at the same time.
First time I came to California I thought, how can people live like this? I saw this happening straight away.
Don't feel sorry for them one bit.
Ges let them eat cake 🍰🎂 they can pull themselves up by thy bootstraps.
They buy a small cottage then demolish it and build a multi million dollar home in its place.. what do they expect 😹😹😹
You’d think it would be illegal to build a giant mansion on land susceptible to landslides. Like aren’t there architectural permit offices that supposedly prevent people from building whatever whereever? Or did they pay off someone to be able to illegally build here?
This kind of thing is going to become more and more common as people build more and more and more large buildings in mudslide and earthquake zones.
In that area a small cottage IS a multi-million dollar home.
Money talks... Bullsh*t walks... $$$$$$ permits are obtainable to the highest bidder.
with a swimming pool, apparently a problem.
Some of them aren't that big, though, not at Rand and Ventura Canyon. I'm sure there are some rich goofballs going in there and messing it all up, though, like they do elsewhere.
For the meantime all CA homeowners need to pay insurance premiums that has gone up to the roof to pay for the poor choices of these homeowners who chose to live by the edge of a cliff when they know it's not safe!
finally some common sense in the comments
Poor choices rich people make
Same comment I made!
The area allows permits is a big problem.
I don’t think insurance covers landslides.
I “speculate” that it’s not safe to build expensive homes on hillsides in LA.
You would like to think that ppl would be wiser....
And the long months of rain didn't help the situation.
🤣😂😅🥲
No wonder insurance companies won't insure homes built in such areas.
Not in this day and age.
Can you even get insurance for something like this? I know you have to buy flood insurance first, then the mudslide/landslide is separate and based on risk. Tough to find a carrier.
This is a dangerous area… if it rains all will be tumbling down those mountains
It's always been unstable land.
How so?
All of California is unstable land. I remember in geology class 35 years ago,they said California will at some point, slide off into the ocean….at some point. hopefully this isn’t ‘at some point..’
@@bngr_bngr looks like old Sea Bottom Mud to me. I grew up in Northern California and have only been around Sherman Oaks a bit, but I have seen big Black Oaks just upturn in storms, so it may be similar. Around Malibu I remember it was miles of Tuff- I would drive pilings if I was building on a slope there.
Really? I lived in the valley 40 years ago, and there were never mudslides like this. Many of the homes in Ventura Cyn. and Topanga Cyn. were well over a hundred years old then. They never collapsed. Could it be that formerly stable land is now unstable, due to fires that burned the vegetation retaining the soil?
One home "red tagged" and two "yellow tagged". This report is just more news network drama.
Doesn't matter if you're rich or poor losing someone's home is nothing to joke about.
Everyone has an opinion😂
Its HILARIOUS... Sherman 🤭
Well, the rich can recover a lot sooner than the poor. And if some of them got their money by deception or working the poor to death in sweatshops, then...boo hoo.
I'm joking plenty. Don't underestimate just how much most people hate California
@@MidwestFarmToyswe really don’t give a f*ck if you laugh. Haters gotta hate!
That pool was NOT Empty.
2:34 That pool does not have much water left
3:14@@Mr.President.2028
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@Mr.President.2028 LOL you need to replay the clip. That chopper reporter straight said that pool was empty. The one with the pavement cracking away from the house and pool. I know I don't need my eyes checked. Come again sir. 🧐🙄🤗
@Mr.President.2028 @5:33 he says yes that pool seems to be empty and which it's clearly not.
"water gushing out of the driveway" huh? thats a tiny little water hose leak wth..
That's so devastating.I live in Florida.You never know when a hurricane's gonna get you or not.So I feel for these people in California.I'm sorry this is happening to you
How many times have landslides occurred in this area. Apparently people keep building in a known landslide area. That seems pretty stupid to me.
Maybe they shouldn't have pools in these hillside communities.
Sorry but the land surveys are supposed to be done by Gov officials before the build
The entire city of San Bernardino is built on sandy soil that is known to liquify in an earthquake, but they allowed it to be built anyway.
Insurance doesn’t cover this unless there is specific coverage for landslide.
Another reason why insurance is so expensive....poor land building decisions
Depending on w here your is at . Alot of California's have hone insurance
Geological surveys are a requirement for building houses in L.A.County...but, it's like at the beach...the views are killer...literally
No more granite counter tops and marble bathrooms. What will the neighbors think?
All that extra weight........
WATER GUSHING DOWN THIS DRIVEWAY? I WOULDNT CALL THAT GUSHING..
I would grant "streaming." Gushing would be grandma being carried down the way....
@@rcstl8815 I'd even allow "flowing", although that could be a stretch. Too bad she's not smart enough to just *not* make that comment.
Just don't understand why anyone would build a house in areas subject to mudslides.
Who builds a pool on the edge of a hill like that?
The architects and builders of these pools.
Why do you have to give the public the exact address?
3811 Ventura Canyon Avenue. Pay attention.
It so we can make an offer to buy the property. Bids are starting at $1
It's so the homeless can pick through the remnants for building materials.
Its public info . Don't watch it😂
Nature cannot be reasoned with. It doesnt know fear, or pity, or pain, and it will not stop, ever, until the houses are dead.
Paving over terrain for a tennis court & pools on the side of a cliff has not helped the situation with global warming. Rain needs somewhere to go. Dealing with my own coastal flooding issues I ripped out lawn in favor of native plants and added rain collection to my gutter system. With mcmansions cropping up around me causing more drainage issues it is a full job bringing in more dirt & plants to make up for what they pave over. Code enforcement in every city needs to consider how much paved surface is in the area before allowing new development. Add tax credits for going native, removing paved surfaces like pools & tennis courts and utilizing rain collection. Require new development to build green space for run-off while limiting new space to be paved.
Global warming or not, this has been happening for millenniums.
😂😂😂 global warming
@@MidwestFarmToys My global warming reply got deleted for some reason.
@@dr.emilschaffhausen4683 of course it did. RUclips wants to control peoples' thoughts
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I still don't understand why people are allowed to build homes on hills, in mountains on sea cliffs and then complain when Mother Nature does what she's supposed to do. This is why insurance is so high in California. People are paying for jerks who build homes where they shouldn't and the loss is passed on to everyone else. If you choose to build your home on a beach, cliff, hill, mountain you should pay the most expensive insurance and sign a waiver that you take full responsibility for the cost when it falls down, slides down, burns down, and crumbles down.
This is one of many thousands of reasons why insurance is so high in California. They can all be traced back to democrats./
World's tiniest violin...
This is only the beginning
Sad. Hope they have insurance.
@@anon-w9la few years ago my insurance stopped. I had no claims, were on a hill so no flooding ever anywhere near my place. No forest fires either. Had to find another and it cost be twice as much.
Cali home owners insurance probably wont pay unless "migrants/ DEI" were harmed
It doesn't matter guaranteed they don't have it
@k9khodi363 this has nothing to do with that
Even if you have insurance, that is not a guarantee they are going to pay. They have cancelled many insurance policies vs actual pay outs
Man, that's someone's dream home, their biggest asset, a huge debt with now no value attached. Such a disaster.
My house has been on a hillside in L.A. county has been there for almost 100 years... but I still worry...you never know
With all the crimes earthquake fires floods and high taxes why the hell would anyone want to live in California
Guarantee majority of those pools have sinkholes that have been leaking for years.
Rich people who can afford to lose $1 million + and not lose any sleep over it , just so they can have status of a million dollar view.
Damn, those multi-million dollar homes are literal trash now.
Nice.
Significant rains this year super saturated the soil. They should change the name of the Fire Dept to Department of emergency services because I don't see a fire here
5:11 - 5:18 How utterly quaint, 'old school' and indeed charming to see a diving board at this home's pool. Most of us are under the impression the lawyers and liability insurance companies had completely eviscerated diving boards that until late in the last century provided playful, fun, skilled athletic diversions at most residences', hotels' / motels', colleges' / universities', summer camps' swimming pools. The Las Vegas Strip hotels' pools thoughtfully offered high dives, no doubt enticing future Olympians.
"Good Luck" to the affected residents and home owners. In dealing with YOUR insurance policies' full coverage as well. And "Thank You" to LAFD for minimizing damage and preventing additional hillside catastrophes; plus KTLA 5 for updated, reliable field reporting.
Water from a pool leaking underground...
These mudslides have happened for decade's yet people keep build on sides of hill & cliffs
Hey great building location! Why not rebuild on the exact same spot? I mean you have the money while we struggle to buy food.
Get a geotechnical engineer out there!!! OMG
For what it's Done
Average cost per square foot in Sherman Oaks - $761. I mean the American oligarchs who live in Sherman Oaks can just live in their second or third homes right now. Santa Fe? Aspen? Montana? That NYC apartment?
do these people still have to pay property tax?
Damaged part of the home? That home is gone.
That reporter asked a lot of good questions and got the details!
Oh, those poor rich people! My heart goes out to them for the loss of their McMansions, swimming pools, and tennis courts!
De-watering a swimming pool. Learn something new everyday.
I'm surprised he didn't say dis watering.......
I guess "draining it" doesn't sound as serious or sophisticated?
0:35, water gushing from hillside? Gushing?
When people realize they just can’t build house any place you like especially if you don’t find out about the land history first there is history of our land people
Norcal and socal residents have different realities. Soils in the that region have always been unstable. Duh....
Water main break?
Mother Nature takes back what is hers ...................
An average home swimming pool is about 20,000 gallons and custom pools average around 30,000 gallons. That is 160,000lbs and 240,000lbs respectively, removing a quarter million pounds of dead load pressure is more than a good idea.
Praying
I lived in CA for 13 years, used to fly R/C gliders off the cliff in Palos Verdes, and if you aren't familiar with the land composition, you'd understand why it gives way so much once you see it.
Ever seen the old movie "It's a mad, mad, mad, mad, world"? The opening sequence on the road where Jimmie Durante drives over the edge and crashes?
I've been on that road, you can see where huge sections of the road has slid down the hill 50 feet and you're standing on the replacement of that section. And there is another section sitting below that section where that road slid down before.
The ground is a sedentary rock type, and the sediment that formed it is, basically, sand, built up over eons and compressed into hard rock. So it crumbles and erode very easily.
The cliff I flew off I'd had to descend a couple times to retrieve my plane, so I could see up close what it was made off, and the dirt eroded from the cliff collected on its slope is a dry, dusty, sandy soil that my feet would sink into - no real support to it.
So, yeah, building on the edge of those cliffs is, to me, the height of stupidity. ESPECIALLY when you are prone to earthquakes!
😳 Mr MaGoo is definitely looking @ that “Under Renovation”, disturbing the base of the “natural habitat.
Rich or not, it's heartbreaking to lose everything you have in one fell swoop. *For those who are gloating and cheering the misfortune of these people, never forget, "there but for the Grace of God go I."* It could be you.
Only if someone has enough money. Rich people problems aren't something everyone needs to worry about.
It couldn't be me because my brain wouldn't let me be this stupid
@@MidwestFarmToys But your brain let you make this stupid comment. So don't trust your brain dude, it may fail you miserably.
5:42 Think carving out the hillside for the highly necessary tennis court may have had a factor in the failure?
since landslides are not covered by regular insurance what ultimately happens to these people? do they literally lose everything? Obviously the lot cannot be sold because it doesn't really exist any more.
They have $ and they were willing to take the risk and they lost.
You need what is called a Difference in Conditions policy because a mud/landslide is not covered by a regular Homeowners, Flood or Earthquake policy. Absent that specialized type of policy your only hope is to recover from a negligent third party.
@@tomconten2065I'd say if you live in California you're a negligent *first* party.
Engineers have no idea how to build structures in mud-slide zones.
I want to buy a house around this area anything for sale?
Taking water from the pools is not going to stop that hill side from sliding down more 😮😮😮
This is happening more and more in LA... it was never like this before to see so many homes getting swept in floods and mudslides...
it would be just awful if california slid into the sea
I have about as much sympathy for these rich you-know-whats, as they would have for me (given a similar situation).
That is a fool's errand to pump water out of the swimming pool to reduce the potential "structural damages" to the properties below.
no rain where s water come from??
This is the first time I have heard of people "dewatering" a swimming pool.
I feel pretty safe to make my comment after reading others. I now live in Las Vegas after being run out of California, so there's no love lost. We have to give up our lawns and trees' not to mention flowers and the such because California "needs or wants" more water. That's right, Cali gets most of the water than dry Nevada. Looks like they have too much water on those water soaked crumbling hills. Payback is something else.
Need to turn off their spigot. They have a whole ocean right there.
Y'all might want to rethink building up in dem dare hills
This land is going back to Mother Nature, nobody will be able to build here again.
NEVER BUY A HOUSE ON A SLOPE OR IN A MUD AREA. COMMON SENSE.
Imagine spending millions on a house to only see it disappear from Mother Nature 🌬️
Kudos to mother nature
Wow! The power of Mother Nature.
Lived in LA 70S-90S..Drove through that area often...There were many areas I thought would eventually "wash away" certainly along Pacific Coast Hwy but never this area.
All these Real Estate companies ought to be put out of business in the Courts.
Taking water out of a pool is not a great idea. The water pressing against the sides is what keeps the sides from collapsing due to the pressure of the dirt around it!
Well if you looked at the pictures you would see that the dirt around it has left the concrete structure of the pool by several feet.
A lot of folks drained their pools in the 80s, and we had a cool place to play with our skateboards, but I never saw a collapse.
They did this in Bluebird Canyon in Laguna Beach in 2005 for a McMansion
what state? why can't these news channels add the state initials in their channel name???
It's the deep state, due to the mudslide.
The house looks made of matchsticks.
the fire dept shouldn't be responsible for draining peoples pools that insist on living on the side of a cliff
@ 1:37 & on I see a Wooden " Stick Framed Addition " Ruined by this Mud Slide !
I guess the Contractor will have to " Junk " All the work that he has done.
Only to have another Contractor come in & Get the wood from that Junk-yard !
STOP BUILDING MANSIONS IN FOOLISH AREAS