Chunk of LA cliff, street slide into Pacific Ocean

[Tx4obama]

November 21, 2011 02:51 AM EST | AP

Chunk of LA cliff, street slide into Pacific

LOS ANGELES — A large chunk of a Los Angeles street and the coastal bluff it sat on have crumbled into the ocean amid heavy rains.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said in a statement that a section of Paseo Del Mar in the San Pedro area that for months had been creeping toward the ocean collapsed on Sunday as a storm struck Southern California.

The mayor says there were no injuries and no property was damaged.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20111121/us-california-storm-la-landslide/


p.s. Folks have always said California would someday fall into the ocean, guess they were correct!

[saras]

1. Would fall? Has been falling. There's neighborhoods where this has been happening for decades.

The house gets near the edge, you condemn it and build a new one a little further back, not too far or you lose the view.

[Raine]

2. Usually during every rainy season here there is some

cliff areas that slide all the way down, either into the ocean or onto a street down below.

[Kurmudgeon]

3. If they were doing the Truffle Shuffle, that's what can happen.

[Gold Metal Flake]

4. It's not new. it's a constant process.

You know, like subsidence.