Land movement cracking roads, sinking homes

Land movement in Rancho Palos Verdes continues to accelerate and as a result, roads and homes continue to crack and sink.

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[kathyabernathy]

Everyone over 60 knows about this area, but they insist on building there! Pure greed, the developers and the taxman

[janetbyrd]

I grew up on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, moved in 1975. The landslide area should NEVER HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED!

[devodootie]

“A foolish man builds his house upon the sand, a wise man builds his house upon the ROCK.”
True in many ways.

[ml.]

Land movement here is completely WITH precedent. It has been going on for decades. No building permits should have been issued in the first place.

[jhoigaar]

Anthropologists have said that the land has been documented as moving since the 1950s. It was criminal for developers to sell the land with homes to people.

[billlong]

This area has been moving and creeping for decades and yet people still build houses on unstable ground. You can't fix stupid.

[gartwilliams]

This has been going on for over 50 years, but people still insist on building their house there🤦‍♂️

[elpatudo]

City officials should NEVER have given permits to the grifter developers!
But more tax $ to waste.
WTF people?!?!?

[mercenarygrip]

I was a dumb teenager jumping my car off 5' drop-offs on Portuguese Bend 40 years ago. That road was constantly shifting & sinking. THEY BUILT HOMES THERE?! 🤣🤣🤣

[Tylwaa]

My Grandpa was born in the 1890s, was a farmer all his life. One year the water in our county was brackish and dangerous to drink because the "lake rolled" or turnover. But my Grandpa said, that's a natural thing and the land does the same. Farmers know about this but not many people do.

[AmericanPatriot-]

This land has been moving for decades. First it's on the other side of the road, then it's crosses and moves towards the ocean, All
natural. I remember 30 years ago this same drama. PEOPLE stop building in this area, vanity brings you here and the earth teaches
you a lesson.

[sendthis]

Ummm…land movement in this area is far from “unprecedented”.

[joshdeskin]

If this wasn’t a rich person neighborhood, it would have been condemned and residents forced out long ago. This has been happening for decades. The area is a complete loss, there’s no going back so why dump so much freaking money trying to prevent the inevitable? The whole area will end up in the water regardless!

[jonsonnenschein]

Whoever said rich people had common sense.

[captiveamerica]

Gives a whole new meaning to "There goes the neighborhood". 😂🤣

[SoloPilot]

Wow, even CALIFORNIA is trying to leave California!

[artguti]

I lived in the Southbay since 1962. And everyone knows about Portuguese Bend. I would NEVER build a house in that area.
There is also another part of Palos Verdes called Sunken City. You can actually see old, paved streets slowly moving towards the sea.

[Solafida]

In 1989 a college professor told me that this was going to happen, and that over building, and swimming pools would make the fall into the sea that much faster...if he knew developers knew.😢

[BobbieJeanM]

Smartest words I’ve heard someone say…”but then, if you build when it’s not moving, it’s gonna move later.” Yes, exactly, because that’s what that area of California does!

[ImpendingJoker]

Who'd of thought that building houses on the sides of cliffs and mountains would be a bad idea in an area prone to landslides and earthquakes. Sorry I don't feel sorry for these people at all. You get what you pay for.