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06/01/2005


Laguna Beach Disaster

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Not even the rich are spared the wrath of Mother Nature. Dozens of multi-million dollar homes came crashing down the hills of Los Angeles' most gay-friendly coastal getaway destination today in a massive landslide. Ouch.

Posted 4:10 PM EST by Andy Towle in Los Angeles | Permalink

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    Posted by: liberal server | Jun 1, 2005 4:34:14 PM


  2. Oh well.

    Posted by: CriticalRN | Jun 1, 2005 5:10:20 PM


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    Posted by: digger_nyc | Jun 1, 2005 5:58:08 PM


  4. Call me crazy but I just returned from Los Angeles and I couldn't keep from thinking how fragile the whole place looked. Those were not little wooden shacks hanging off those hills on stilts. They were 8 million $ (give or take a few million) homes. Isn't Los Angeles on or near the St-Andreas fault? It's a matter of time...mark my words.

    Posted by: Don | Jun 1, 2005 8:10:14 PM


  5. Worked the Bluebird Canyon Slide all day today- luckily there were no serious injuries. The area is still completely unstable.

    Posted by: bmwlaguna | Jun 2, 2005 12:16:59 AM


  6. Never underestimate mother nature

    Posted by: Alex | Jun 2, 2005 1:18:47 AM


  7. Isn't the whole of California supposed to, at some time, break away from the continent and slide into the ocean? I always thought you had to have a certain kind of insanity to live on the West Coast, but I didn't think you needed a death wish.

    Posted by: JC | Jun 2, 2005 11:09:31 AM


  8. California's coastline is actually more likely to slide up the coast: LA is slowly creeping up to SF.

    The proximity to the San Andreas fault isn't really the problem here: it was the record-shattering rainy season causing the groundwater to turn to clay, acting like ketchup in a ketchup bottle where all it takes is one good WHACK and the whole thing comes pouring down.

    Posted by: RDiggy | Jun 2, 2005 12:57:25 PM


  9. They were saying on TV this morning that all that damage is uninsured. Especially as it's not even directly related to the weather. They probably will not even be allowed to salvage their belongings nor furniture from the wreckage.

    Kiss your $8-million home goodbye, and don't forget you still owe the (massive) mortgage on it.

    Posted by: Ted B. | Jun 2, 2005 6:19:56 PM


  10. MORONS!

    Why would you buy property @ the shoreline?

    You definitely haven't studied the property/landscape and the geographic/geologic consequences before buying it.

    Posted by: badtz | Jun 3, 2005 12:16:19 AM


  11. You all simply don't get it.

    Posted by: rex | Jun 6, 2005 12:23:19 PM


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