Rolling Hills Estates

[dryheat]

That's ironic. Now houses are rolling down hill. 12 houses (at least 5M each) have started sliding down the embankment. Three well known insurance companies are stepping back from insuring homes in CA. Climate change gets the blame, but hills in California have been sliding for a long time.

[barretcreek]

The Control of Nature by John McPhee is a compilation of articles he wrote for The New Yorker (back when it was worth reading) about a variety of man's attempts to make reality OBEY! Usually with negative results. One chapter deals with the floral ecology of the coastal California hillside terrain.

[Allen]

As any 5 year old would say: "a person shouldn't build a house on the side of a hill, too close to the edge of a cliff, or too close to the water."

[dryheat]

A hundred yrs. ago maybe five rich people could build a home on a cliff or near the beach. They knew what they were doing. Now, "newbie" millionaires want to be on the beach too. Developers are happy to build them a cardboard house.

[dryheat]

Barretcreek.

When I took the bus ride the driver said, none of these pretty flowers would be here without irrigation.

[barretcreek]

Destination Oceanside?

[dryheat]

Nope further north.

[Merc]

Insurance companies will eventually dictate where a home will or will not be built.

[dryheat]

So, there is a limit?

[dogtag]

People build get flooded and then rebuild on flood-planes.
Now we have the leaning tower of dumbass in San Francisco
built on landfill with the foundation pylons (apparently) not
reaching bedrock.
To live at the top of a 50 story building takes either mucho
bravery or mucho something else.
Me ? I'd be scared shirtless in case of fire.