Rain in California: Rancho Palos Verdes looking for aid for landslides

[@dianaguenzler2897]

The land on those hillsides hasn't been stable in my life time. I'm 70 yrs old.

[@mamalor13]

It's like no one ever looked at California and asked how it ever came to look like it does. The whole landscape was formed by continual pushing of the shores sands, which continues today. It's nothing but compacted sand dunes! No one ever wondered how it all formed? It's no mystery why it all comes tumbling down!

[@ReynaldoAbasr]

MY GEOLOGIST professor told me back in 1987

[@dbcooper692]

I am also 70 and all my life that area has been at risk. I lived at the Portuguese Bend Beach Club in 2007 and 2008 and back then I wondered how much longer those houses would be livable!!

[@lt6209]

Don’t build your home near a moving mountain. It’s been moving for decades. It’s like building a home on a volcano. Sooner or later the house will be destroyed.

[@bargdaffy1535]

Actually not a Mountain. Palos Verdes is an ancient Sea anticline outcropping. Uplift starting in the Pliocene resulted in the submarine formation of a doubly plunging anticline along the south side of the northwest-trending Palos Verdes fault. The anticline emerged as an island during the Early Pleistocene and became part of the mainland by the end of the Pleistocene.

[@donaldhenderson5039]

We ( this guy ) are Serious about Recieving other people's money.. - I'm shure You Are Stanford is smart ask their Geology Department 😊

[@donaldhenderson5039]

​@@bargdaffy1535Excellent Work ❤

[@MdArif-tf8ql]

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[@ReynaldoAbasr]

must be ANCIENT

[@phyllisarrington7436]

Aren't they silly. No walls or concrete or barruers are going to stop miving earth. It's gonna move. Period. Accept it and move on.

[@BradKwfc]

In California, even the rain is taxing😅

[@kingboagart899]

It's been an ever-changing topography since I was a kid and it was called simply "Palos Verdes" and my parents could afford to live there. All of us knew the land was moving and it was no secret. The folks that offered us way too much money for our houses knew exactly what they were getting.

[@bargdaffy1535]

Rich People should pay for their own Aid by paying appropriate Taxes.

[@Bitcoin_Gold]

Yeah right tell that to corrupted Newsom & Corrupted Fake President Joe Biden who never pays taxes

[@________________7279]

I live in Palos Verdes. I wouldn’t characterize us as rich. Most people bought their homes and condos years ago. My neighbor bought his condo in 1998 for 300k and now it’s 1.3 million. Doesn’t mean that he shouldn’t be able to collect aid money. My parents bought my condo in 2003 for 400k and my unit is 1.4 now. Shouldn’t preclude me from being able to receive state or federal assistance, especially since I’m sure the residents here pay more taxes than the average Californian.

[@bargdaffy1535]

I thought the State had a $68 Billion Deficit and was having problems with the Budget anyway, can't Rich Folks pay for their own expensive property upgrades?

[@ClippingWisdom]

US defense budget is $900 billion so there is plenty to around---especially for the rich

[@alanbourne2332]

@@ClippingWisdomdon’t we need that money to secure Ukraines border

[@________________7279]

I live in Palos Verdes. I wouldn’t characterize us as rich. Most people bought their homes and condos years ago. My neighbor bought his condo in 1998 for 300k and now it’s 1.3 million. Doesn’t mean that he shouldn’t be able to collect aid money. My parents bought my condo in 2003 for 400k and my unit is 1.4 now. Shouldn’t preclude me from being able to receive state or federal assistance, especially since I’m sure the residents here pay more taxes than the average Californian.

[@AndrewPerez-j6o]

@@________________7279 Boo hoo there's no such thing as a risk free investment

[@ChicanoPhD]

No welfare for rich people.

[@donaldhenderson5039]

Gravel Pile on the Move Strange thing when mixed with Water..

[@ohwhataday7171]

Like the mayor said, they have been experiencing this the last 20 years. Only to get worse. If they knew this, why didn’t they take preventative measures to avoid or lessen any issues?

[@ReynaldoAbasr]

CONSULT WITH A GEOLOGIST BEFORE you purchase or build

[@gloriakanta4652]

It's gonna happen...the whole damn state is gonna slide right into the ocean! 😢

[@miss.maroon2249]

You're right because a long time ago I heard it when I was in the middle school! He said, it will happen and the whole state will slide into the ocean! It really sounded scary! 😲

[@ReynaldoAbasr]

haha YOU'VE WATCHed 2012

[@paulfinck259]

Gravity never rests

[@bargdaffy1535]

Rust never sleeps. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@mitchyoung93]

Dude, these people are insanely wealthy...they have the resources to deal with this.

[@iwishpeoplecaredagain]

Wheres the money gonna come from the new migrates are getting 10,000 in ny maybe they will help you all.

[@ohwhataday7171]

The news guy said climate change for that city?? Pablo’s Verde Peninsula is a big hill. It’s been happening for 20 years and the city has not taken measure to prevent mudslides and ground shifting/movement. To be expected for hilly areas. I learned this in elementary school science and geography classes.

[@mamalor13]

Long time residents above are saying 70 years.

[@l.plzsavethebeez485]

To bad they allowed so much building in a continual slide area!

[@piperlani]

IF the Governor was on top of things, he shouldn’t wait to be begged!!! What a LOSER!

[@WesternStatesTrailMuseum]

Wise up! This problem is MUCH, MUCH bigger than one person, Governor or not.

[@AoCabo]

Don't mean to be insensitive. It's a really beautiful area, but many of these houses are built right on or near a cliff. What do you think is gonna happen? Should taxpayers be asked to pay for damages to your million dollar homes because you decided to build on unstable grounds? Smh

[@bargdaffy1535]

What is the Plan? There is no Plan, if there were a Plan, we wouldn't be here.....lmao. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Bitcoin_Gold]

Plan is the democrat gov Newsom will.ignore it and will mostly put his attention on helping Ukraine. lol..

[@Noodlepony]

*Earthquake in California*: 😒 *Rain in California*: 😰😳

[@NextGenNative]

These people live In million dollar homes lol and they need help?

[@kingboagart899]

A million wouldn't get you past the security cameras on your way in.

[@danlowe8684]

From 1989 study published in the journal Science Direct: The Portuguese Bend landslide represents a reactivation of movement of the eastern part of a complex of prehistoric landslides occupying an area of approximately two square miles. This latest episode of movement began in 1956, presumably in response to placement of fill during a road construction project. The active slide subsequently was enlarged by sequential failure of adjoining blocks of ground, and by September 1969 about 54,500,000 metric tons of debris was slowly moving downslope in an area of approximately 104 ha. Movement has been continuous since recent failure began in 1956, although the velocity of the active slide decreased markedly after that year. Between 1962 and 1972 the velocity fluctuated only slightly about an average value of about 1 cm per day. Movement is occurring along a distinct basal failure surface. The eastern part of the slide is underlain by bedrock and is bordered by bedrock with a general structure that limits further deep-seated propagation of failure to the east and northeast. In contrast, the western part of the slide is underlain and bordered by extensive ancient landslide deposits that are marginally stable. Further encroachment of the active slide westward and northwestward into these materials was viewed as a distinct possibility at the time the dissertation was prepared and has occurred since then. Continued movement of the Portuguese Bend landslide since 1956 has been due to four main factors. A rise in the water table during the period 1957-1968 has been documented in the northwestern part of the moving mass and is attributable mainly to infiltration of surface runoff entering numerous open fissures that cut the surface of the slide. The toe of the active slide daylights along the shoreline and is subjected to storm-wave erosion, so that any natural build-up of resisting forces is prevented in this area. The redistribution of mass as the slide has moved along an undulatory failure surface has been responsible for local fluctuations in the driving and resisting forces. Finally, smoothing of irregularities in the failure surface by the moving slide mass must have decreased some of the forces resisting movement.

[@dhelmich3250]

My in-laws used to live there, and way back in the 1980’s they knew they had a land slide problem!! Even the old houses up there are overpriced, but because of the views and elevation that put them out of the normal housing area, they are definitely at a higher risk. Time to move into your other house!!!

[@ReynaldoAbasr]

which is the Shack

[@eugenebdotson7363]

The 1880's would be way back not the 1980's !

[@grapeview61]

Miraleste High Rules!!!!

[@sergiosoria3822]

IT'S TIME TO RUN OUT OF THERE!! GOD HAVE MERCY!

[@losocampo9239]

They can use their own money 🎉

[@harrykuheim6107]

Cali is an ongoing Emergency...

[@haroldbranch7971]

ahhh poor rich people

[@justgivemethetruth]

ugh, that annoying announcer on the left who chaired the debate ... can't stand him.

[@patgibsonguitar5000]

Saturated? You betcha.

[@rainbowwarrior11400]

God's plan...Time is up!

[@Marilyn-wz5uk]

Failing down my fair lady it never rain in California they tell me now you don't sleep at night without a plan to split 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 florida

[@jamesg2609]

Lots of haters !

[@waynetyson3822]

@bargdaffy1535 is correct. Too bad the text was edited. Re-post? It is VITAL that the natural mass movement be distinguished from those instances where it appears that land development practices such as mass-grading (cutting the buttressing toe away from natural slopes and maximizing lot yield with fill dirt (unconsolidated material, perhaps compacted to conform with lab testing of doubtful real-world utility, perhaps not). That is, distinguish apples from oranges. One also wonders just how pinning pieces of a faulty fault together is going to accomplish much except increase the size of the failure blocks . . .

[@bargdaffy1535]

Is this what caused Tiger Woods to crash? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Bitcoin_Gold]

No .. idiot Tiger was DUI

[@davidgarner601]

How's that global warming working out for you in the middle of winter?