Lanslide destroyed 12 homes in Laguna Beach, Southern California. The weather is nice, but earthquakes and landslides can destroy your dream home in no time.

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story..../1316648839.htm

 

Gee whiz you build on the side of a hill and look what happens...They should all have to pay out of pocket for having a house built where it shouldn't have been. Hillsides are know for unstable soil conditions, it happened before and it will happen again. I feel the same for people building on barrier islands and crying about their house being damaged by hurricanes. It wasn't meant to be built on.

 

Heheheh, one of the the thing's they never show you on "The O.C."

 

No insurance company insured lanslide. The owners of lanslide homes lost everything: house, land, funitures, personal belongings ...
Earthquake victims lost the houses and whatever inside, but they still have the land to rebuild, if they dont have earthquake insurance coverage.
Fired homes are the least trouble in term of money out of pocket, since they only pay deductable which is about $1000 for most policies. But they get new structure, new appliances, new funitures ...
Of all natural disasters, victims of landslide pay the most.

 

Surely the homeowners knew this before hand? I for one would want to know before buying / building a house on a hillside whether it can be insured or not.

I spent most of my life working in South O.C. for arrogant people who live in the beach comunities. Something tells me they have not lost all and they will stupidly rebuild on the hill once again.

 

The exact area had landslide in 1978, the effected home owners and goverment rebuilt the hillside. So, at least some owners know the potential problem with landslide and they know that normal homeowner insurance does not cover earth movement.
Landslide victims lost everything in the house and the land the house was on, but many of them in Laguna Beach have a lot more money somewhere else, some of them will rebuild the jill and their houses in the very near future.

 

I don't feel that the government should step in except to insure that the debris from the houses and any and all ecological damage is paid for by the home owners. If you insist on building in these types of places ALL of the costs should be absorbed by you, not by state or federal agencies.

 

in my area, the government paid to pump sand to extend the shoreline in front of the condos. the people not living on the beach pay for it, and it benefits the property owners in the interest of "tourism".

again, these are the same pricks who try to tell you that you can't be on their "private beach"

 

Who the hell builds a multi-million $$ house on the side of a cliff and then gets pissed when it falls off? I'm pretty sure the first rule of architecture is to make sure you have a solid foundation.