Egads.

[WilliamPitt]

California mudslide.

[aden_nak]

1. That's so bizzarre it looks fake. And it's so bizzarre 'cause it's not.

[vixengrl]

28. On that scale, it does look like

some kid took one of those really detailed HO train sets with all the little houses and poured sand from the sandbox all over it. Weird to think of nature doing that to real houses where actual people live--awful.

[Worst Username Ever]

2. Holy cow.

It looks a lot bigger from this perspective.

[proud patriot]

3. Jeez louise

I hadn't seen it from that angle :wow:

[Beaverhausen]

4. Me either and I had wanted to get this perspective on it

thanks Will!

[fluffernutter]

5. wow. great shot.

amazing from that angle. poor people.

[dr.strangelove]

6. That is so terrible!

Every time I think of this, turning around and seeing a mountain of earth coming down on you. That scares me. This goes on the list of ways I hope I don;t die.

[johnnie]

7. Day-um

That's wild

[fertilizeonarbusto]

8. YOICKS!

How horrible!

[CottonBear]

9. Look how close together the houses are.

I was wondering how the mud slide destroyed 15 homes (+ or -). Now I know. They didn't stand a chance. What an awful way to go. I heard a TV news report which said there was a mud slide in this very same location a number of years ago.

[SoCalDem]

26. and they were nestled right up to the base of that "cliff"

The slide in 95 was bad too, but no one died (I think).. Banks would not even loan money to people wanting to buy the houses that people left, then..

Some people in CA take lots of risks when they buy a house..This time they lost :(

[Guaranteed]

10. An ex-co-worker of mine lives there in La Conchita.

(I'm from SB, basically).

Hope she's okay.

[asthmaticeog]

11. self-delete

[Left Is Write]

12. Amazing! It doesn't even look REAL - and that's part of what

makes it so scary.

[nini]

13. I hear they're insisting on rebuidling there..

To see this makes me sick. WHY would anyone insist on rebuilding in a spot that's had 2 MAJOR slides within 10 years.

:scared:

[Beaverhausen]

16. Why do people insist on living in Florida where there are hurricanes

every year? or Kansas and the tornados?

The rain we had this past week was the most in over 100 years. This isn't a yearly occurance.

[nini]

18. those are hit and miss on the areas affected.

this is a known unstable landslide area..

I can see why they'd want to live there but if it's not safe doesn't make sense to me.

[paula777]

19. It much worse than that. La Conchita has had massive mudslides

since the 1800s. Houses there go for $4000 dollars. Can you imagine, $4000 in California - by the beach? Everything else near there goes for a million plus. Tells you something doesn't it. Now they want to rebuild so more people will die in the next big rainstorm. I don't get it. They should just red tag the town and be done with it.

[nini]

20. There's an area in Palos Verdes also that has land shifts

People are constantly having to reinforce their structures etc.. at a huge cost every 6 months or so, with no guarantee the whole thing won't just slide off into the ocean one day.

I'm all for a beautiful view etc.. but if the land just is not stable no building should be allowed.

You'd think the deaths from all this would be enough to want them to leave :shrug:

[paula777]

21. I agree, I would rather live in my car than take the very real chance of

being buried alive like that. Arnold said the state would do whatever it takes to secure the mountain. I bet he will end up eating those words because even yesterday and today, the land is continuing to slide.

[nini]

22. Arnold's an idiot.. but I'm sure you know that

:-)

there's too much land that is too unstable to try and 'secure' it. Leave it alone and let mother nature do what she has to with it. There are a million other things that need to be done with any money used to try and hold a mountain back that is hell bent on shifting.

Land movement has been going on since the beginning of the planet - it's not going to stop for idiots who would rather have an ocean view than be safe.

[paula777]

24. No kidding. And yes, I did know that Arnold is an idiot

[Pacifist Patriot]

14. Whoa!

[giant_robot]

15. Yikes!

I think I'll stick with the northeast where we get buried in snow, but nobody dies.

[havocmom]

17. "It never rains in California..."

uh huh, but it slides, man it slides.

[SmokingJacket]

23. I was going to ask why in the world they'd put houses so close

to the hill, knowing about mudslides and all.

Then I saw the beach.

Take a risk... and you get to live by the beach.

[CottonBear]

27. You spend your money & take your chances.

The first time I was ever in CA I visited a Northern CA town (Crescent City?) that had been destroyed by a tsunami in the 1960's. I'll take my chances with GA tornados. They are a sort of random natural disaster. I don't have to worry about floods, fires, mud slides or earthquakes here.

[Lex]

25. kick!

amazing pic

[housewolf]

29. I heard on the news last night

that people were being told "don't ever go back" because it's so dangerous now and they don't know when or if ever it will not be too dangerous to go there.

[StaggerLee]

30. The Blob

Makes me think of the original.

Wow.