La Jolla Landslide

[bugzy]

http://www.10news.com/news/14259253/detail.html

[bugzy]

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20071003-9999-7m3slipping.html

[TOYr32]

Ahhh . . . the everyday stresses of the privileged . . . and who said being wealthy wasn't all that it was CRACKED up to be!!!

[mike]

People need to realize when they build houses or buy a house on a hillside, unless its on a giant chunk of bedrock, its gonna settle and move. this is the result. Especially on man made hills. I have a house in a hilly area and I have cracks in my drywall and sloping floors from settling and my house was built in the 80's.

[Paul]

it's a pretty massive slide... articles don't do it justice.

[EDM]

Yeah just wait until we finally get some rain.

[daygoVR6]

i live in la jolla thankfully on the other side from where this is going on but I do work with someone who lives pretty close to this thankfully on the PB side of MT Soledad

[PhätTony]

:soapbox:

people dont realize that if you live on a hillside, cliffside, beachfront...its called shorline degradation. take a oceanography class, it teaches you a lot an opens eyes to all this. all this rich property is going to fall apart one day. even these cliffs over in sd that people go hangliding from...gonna be gone son. It's already depleting. It's just the way it is.

any kind of rock stands no chance.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b65/Bishop4695/shortlinedeg.png

[Paul]

you do realize that this is mt soledad, which doesn't touch the ocean right?

[PhätTony]

you do realize that this is mt soledad, which doesn't touch the ocean right?

yes, but my point is that the earth shifts... it's all eventually going to come down, or in this case shift across

[Paul]

oh sure, eventually the land we're on will end up back under ground but you don't expect it to happen in your lifetime. This slide was pre-shadowed by a slide in 1961 so it's a known geological event in that area.

From what I read, granite base (mt soledad), layer of clay, then top-soil. the granite didn't move, the dirt on top of it did. This slide had nothing to do with shoreline degredation is all i was saying.

[v2rocket]

all this rich property is going to fall apart one day. even these cliffs over in sd that people go hangliding from...gonna be gone son. It's already depleting. It's just the way it is


if the melting polar ice caps doesnt make arizona beachfront property before then.