Nope, this section of Rancho Palos Verdes is on the coast and has been a known slide area since people starting building structures there
The whole section of coastline is clay on top of shale rock, add water and it's like a slip-n-slide. This particular section used to move very slowly and fairly continously for decades but all the big rains we have had the last few years lubed it up and now it's sliding something like 9 inches per month.
This whole section is contained and coastal, just a few miles either direction. It's not part of LA other than the fact that it's LA county.
It's a mess. The city council is useless and this situation got bad in a matter of months and now their running around like chickens with their heads cut off.
They lost a 14 in sewer line and dumped about 10,000 gallons of raw sewage right into the ocean and just sort of pretended like it didn't happen.
It's sad that people are loosing there homes and their land but man, watching the incompetence is amusing nonetheless.
I just came here to say pretty much this. This is a very misleading X post! Not to mention Matt Wallace, in his eagerness to shout with his caps lock button, misspelled "Los Angeles".
Here's what one commenter said on Yahoo where an article on this story can be found
Kathy
1 hour ago
They may as well abandon Rancho Palos Verdes. When l lived in the South Bay in the 70s & 80s, l had a few classmates that lived there and the hills were always sliding.
They didn’t call it Portuguese Bend for nothing. Mother Nature is taking over and there’s little they can do to save it.
Nope, this section of Rancho Palos Verdes is on the coast and has been a known slide area since people starting building structures there
The whole section of coastline is clay on top of shale rock, add water and it's like a slip-n-slide. This particular section used to move very slowly and fairly continously for decades but all the big rains we have had the last few years lubed it up and now it's sliding something like 9 inches per month.
This whole section is contained and coastal, just a few miles either direction. It's not part of LA other than the fact that it's LA county.
Oh okay. Thanks.
It's a mess. The city council is useless and this situation got bad in a matter of months and now their running around like chickens with their heads cut off.
They lost a 14 in sewer line and dumped about 10,000 gallons of raw sewage right into the ocean and just sort of pretended like it didn't happen.
It's sad that people are loosing there homes and their land but man, watching the incompetence is amusing nonetheless.
Oh wow. It's a hot mess.
I just came here to say pretty much this. This is a very misleading X post! Not to mention Matt Wallace, in his eagerness to shout with his caps lock button, misspelled "Los Angeles".
Here's what one commenter said on Yahoo where an article on this story can be found
https://www.yahoo.com/news/state-emergency-declared-california-city-230532855.html
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Kathy
1 hour ago
They may as well abandon Rancho Palos Verdes. When l lived in the South Bay in the 70s & 80s, l had a few classmates that lived there and the hills were always sliding.
They didn’t call it Portuguese Bend for nothing. Mother Nature is taking over and there’s little they can do to save it.