A look inside the evacuation zone in Rancho Palos Verdes 

wise man builds his house on the rock

The rock is in Arizona

Jimi Hendrix❤

These houses aren't built on sand.

That song still plays through my mind and it is very very appropriate here.

Centuries.

That can be said for all of California

@@Odin33356 lol, hardly.... the seismic areas and places like this represent a small portion of the state overall

We didn't always have a earthquake every time it rains or fissures across Arizona

When California goes Yellowstone goes so we mine the fault lines at the salton sea for lithium and subsidize electric cars for Econ.

Good watches have capacitors not batteries unfortunately God is for lithium miners to blame for California falling into the ocean 🙏.

My neighborhood is holding a bake sale next weekend ... all proceeds will go to the "poor" suffering Palos Verde struggling homeowners ...

Well they cant sell and move, being homeless in california is terrible these days. Good as dead, so thats why they stay.

I doubt there will be an earthquake type event. Just continuous slow movement that will eventually make getting in and out impossible.

@@billl1127 Yep, this is a slow and ancient landslide that's been going on for thousands of years. There's several spots like this around California....LaJolla has one - not as big and not as built up. Also the westernmost portion of Anaheim Hills in Orange County to name a couple.

Like that will help.​@@juanbait9670

nuts on real estate....lol

Yes marineland

more like centuries, millennia even

I appreciate the historical knowledge. It's like early 50s and 60s when the hillsides of Los Angeles will catch on fire. Back then they knew better than to build homes on it. Fast forward to 2024 and those same Hill size are catching on fire was major development along the hillside. History gives you lessons if you listen.

​100%

The is called erosion and plate techtonics. Happens throughout the Earth for melinia. The Earth changes. Always has, always will.

And I will add that I grew up in that area and those hills have been sliding for decades!

“Gravity always wins. And it wears him out. It wears him out.”

@@LuckyPierre789 Yes, in the late 1950s, and by 1961, Crenshaw Blvd. was extended, with attempts to build the road "up an over" the Portuguese Bend area, as the road was originally intended to go down and connect to P.V. Drive below. Construction had to stop because it was then believed the earth was moving as a result of that project alone. (One might want to research, in Vanderlip historical archives, whether the land was moving, but not as violently/suddenly, even before that never completed Crenshaw Blvd extension. Who knows?)

It is unfathomable that people feel they need to control other people. We don't need the "danger police" to disallow them to remain in their homes. They paid for it. They get to decide when they leave. This is a heartbreaking situation. The are entitled to make their own choices under these terrible circumstances.

@@chelseysmith-f3b I’d agree as long as there aren’t any babies in the house that would prefer not to slide down a cliff while they’re sleeping soundly in their cribs and having a pleasant dream about Mickey Mouse.

Similar problem for me, but three of us live in a tiny apartment.

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Me too

So they had fair warning???.

@@paulchezkari6952 everyone alive now had more than fair warning.

Oh

That's far beyond shoring any of that up.

A deep layer of Bentonite clay is not going to "heal itself". Why would you plant anything there? Cactus like weeds will take this over tomorrow. The day after that it will slide into the sea. No reason to do anything but move.

@@LaurieFloodTeacher shoring it up is like trying to plug an erupting volcano with lava rocks! You might slow it down,but its a very temporary solution! The shoring wont hold up any better than the actual house that was engineered and designed! Once the walls shift out of plumb its structural integrity is absolutely decreased!Shoring is meant to be temporary! It will go out of plumb and level while giving residents hope and false security! Who will take the responsibility when the first human life is lost due to shoring failure! It WILL fail when the slide shifts enough! Furthermore are these people planning on living like this the rest of their lives?what about the next storm? Emergency service access?mail access?taking kids to school?open holes?ruts?sinkholes?sewage?water pressure and quality?dangerous red tagged dwellings?looters?squatters?rodents and insect infestations?unsafe use of generators/carbon monoxide, and fuel fires! Face it at least part of this city is time for abandonment!

Mother nature is redesigning the landscape. She does not care about classes of people. She has had enough of greedy humans disrespecting and destroying mother earth. She's coming for us all.

Totally agree!!

For insurance payout

Why should they get anything? They chose to build or buy there knowing that the ground is always moving. Don't they have insurance? Or were they refused because of where their house was? Kinda like trying to get insurance in a flood plain.

@SarahGreen523 Because $2000 per household is a slap in the face. What is that going to pay for, won't even buy new carpets.

@@vickybachert8298 That is just a quick er check. They’ll get a lot more help than that trust me! Know for a fact!

you have to be illegal to be free money, these are American citizens.

No, these are hard-working people who don't believe in handouts, plebian.

If it's true, wouldn't you?

@@davidzajac4907 why shouldn't Americans be helped in a tragedy or misfortune, a hand up? illegals get it for breaking the law and committing crimes and they still get everything free, now it's $150K "helping hand" to buy an American house on American soil and they aren't even legal nor a citizen AND they broke the law, so why not a law abiding citizen? you tell me. I would help them, this isn't something they chose for themselves to happen to them or their families (or their grandma or mom and dad) it's OUR AMERICAN FAMILY, NOT ILLEGALS PEOPLE. wake up, we help our own! we have to change how we are, not supporting our own people but rather "outsiders", no excuses. God bless and help them to recover and to be safe. God first, then OUR family, OUR Country and we have lots to do here people to save our Country.

@@dondavis5633 RIGHT, these people didn't steal these houses, they WORKED FOR IT and THRIVED WHEN AMERICA WAS ABLE TO PAY FOR IT'S FOOD AND RENT AND MORTGAGES WITHOUT HAVING TO WORK 3 PART TIME JOBS, we didn't just give all our hard earned tax dollars over to ILLEGALS and ANCHORS from every nation who want a freebie. wake up people, quit resenting your own people, your own family who are having a hard time, maybe it's your jealous and resentment that other have something they worked for and you resent that. ILLEGALS are criminals and get it all FREE. wake up.

Finally, an informed commenter! That mud is bentonite clay, which is super slippery when wet. Reminds me of a story I read about a prospector decades ago who tried to climb a desert slope after a rain and faceplanted. Was a huge deposit of Bentonite and he sold the claim to a cat litter company for a pretty penny. I remember driving through Portuguese Bend many times in the mid 80s. The water mains were built right on the surface, and there were huge hops and dips that had to get graded and freshly asphalted on a monthly basis because the ground was moving so much. This is NOT an "emergency" in the sense that it suddenly and unexpectedly just happened.

Yikes,, i buy powdered bentonite clay and mix it with water for a face mask,,, it dries on your face,, and rinses off pretty easily,,,,, so if there is water running through that,,,,, /// that's Really bad!

It's an active slide. There is not much you can do about it except draining. It this case the area is way too large it would cost billions... with no guaranty.

Tx for the explanation. Very interesting. Why would anyone build these houses in that area? I’m sure the contractors are long gone.

Very interesting. Most of the residents in RPV are educated enough to know about this as well. That entire area up there is unstable, and not just Portuguese Bend - the adjacent neighborhoods as well.

It is a very isolated problem. If you don't live in PV, you have nothing to be concerned about.

Yep, I'm sympathetic and all for helping our fellow man. But how do you provide power and water to an area that is changing that quickly? They're gonna have to leave if they want to be part of the grid. If the land stops moving and stabilizes then we can talk about reconnecting their homes to the grid. But otherwise it's sadly a write off. So we're talking insurance or bail out, most likely.

Many of those people bought 30-40 years ago and couldn't afford it if they tried to buy there now.

​@@bowtoyoursensei554 I doubt I could have afforded it then, either.

English much?

ESL or public-school alum. What a genius.

Not everyone who lives there is a millionaire genius. I lived I. The area for 25 years, my dad wanted the best for us and rented all of his life unfortunately

@@MikeHunt90731 so you’re telling me that the folks who live in the Portuguese Bend GATED community with exclusive oceanfront homes are NOT millionaires? GET REAL

@@mr.d7237 did you even read my comment Einstein? Not everyone is a millionaire! I lived behind the gates from 1974-1976, rented the house. From 1976-1989 lived in PV Drive South just below the houses in Exultant that has slipped. Duh there are some millionaires who own homes there but you forgot about the renters who aren't. You probably don't even know where RPV is so talking to you is a waste of time 🤣

@@MikeHunt90731 stop lying

@@mr.d7237 wtf are you talking about? You are the clueless one, I was born and raised in the South Bay now crawl back under your rock 🤣

We didn't always have a earthquake every time it rains or fissures across Arizona.

When California goes Yellowstone goes so we mine the fault lines at the salton sea for lithium and subsidize electric cars for Econ.

No catastrophe goes to waste because they're all engineered..

Really???​@@Odin33356

@@Odin33356 Engineered by mother nature Odin! She is redesigning the landscape, mother nature does not care about classes of people. She has had enough of greedy humans disrespecting and destroying mother earth.

Nope. Houses are still atleast 1.5 million even the ones that got f'd up.

There is nothing reasonable about living or buying there - the rains are coming, and they've been warned in so many ways that it's time to leave.

God won't help you with that attitude, get ready for the heat.

You do for people who live in FL for example because they are subsidized by the government but these people are not (yet). Their insurance does not cover land movement.

@@sportsbesthighlightschanne1052 what?

God won't help you with that attitude, get ready for the heat.

Tell that to “The Smartest Man in the World, Donald Trump” who owns a Golf Club on the Cliffs of Rancho Palos Verdes. And he bought it AFTER the 18th Hole fell 300 feet down a steep cliff into the ocean. He then Sued the City of RPV for $100,000,000 in order to build the 12 Mansions he eventually built on the property. I’m guessing $1,000,000,000 when he sues them again.

Rainy season coming. Likely this year, in that area, rains shall be coming down much more forcefully and protracted.

I know it's a flower, but kinda also fitting "narcissa" 😂

Damn right.

Since they are giving up CA to the criminals and illegals, where else would you live but behind a gate? Democrats keep voting for this. Hence the $63 BILLION dollar budget deficit. Live like the politicians and MSNBS talking heads funded by Pfizer. With security. DUH! See the meth heads dancing and the gangs stealing? Its what everybody votes for here.

When was this community built? It looks like this region was a 'nature preserve'. It was probably 'zoned' as park reserve because folks at one point knew this was dangerous land to build on. So what happened? Did someone BUILD illegally? Or get greedy and sell land they shouldn't have to builders?

Anything with a actual brain is considered insane.

I read it is the richest retirement area in the US!

@@JustMe-gs9xi possibly . I am a little out of the loop regarding PV , but I know people who lived on the outskirts and left more than 20 years ago because of geological concerns. It's no secret that this has been an ongoing reality and I for one can't imagine investing in property without researching this sort of thing first

It's not going to be expensive for much longer.

"as if someone living cheque to cheque in a crappy little apartment "; you do mean, "as if someone living *check to check* in a crappy little apartment "; where you from?

@@jerryc3050 "where you from"?

@@BigChungus-zg6zw girls, girls......stop it.

@@jerryc3050 obviously you guys are not rich.

"Cheque" is the British version of American "check." You're clearly commenting from outside the U.S.

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Yeah, because everyone has unlimited funds to leave their homes, shithead.😂

And in Portuguese Bend, the ground is collapsing everywhere. The houses will fall down on them, too, if they stay.

Some people don’t the option. Did you even watch the video?

so delusional that theyd rather gamble on their home they have been in for decades then gamble on the streets homeless, I think id take the home too... careful calling people delusional before you bother thinking about their actual situation and the actual hardships they face, have some empathy.

I feel so bad for these homeowners. Most have spent their whole lives paying the mortgage to pay off their home. If it were my family, I’d want to leave & probably would but how do you pay the mortgage & then rent someplace else to live? They are in a no win situation. They need help…..maybe Newsome has some money to help them….perhaps that $25,000 they are paying illegals to buy homes could be better used helping tax paying Californians losing their home to an earth shattering situation like this? Right Governor Newsome?

Housing supply did not go up because of this.

@@Orcinus1967 It sure didn't. It probably decreased. There are now fewer multi-million dollar homes for the 3% who can afford them.

Pay taxes

It be yo owns peoples who be doin da takeovers and robbin and sheet.

You mine the fault lines at the salton sea for lithium and subsidize electric cars for Elon.

This is not really a fault. This area is an ancient landslide. The ground is a mixture of dirt and rocks and it is not consolidated with any type of binder. Underneath this ancient slide is a layer of volcanic bentonite clay, and there is another layer in the middle of the slide... They know this from core drill samples that were published in an engineering report yesterday. These two layers of bentonite, one at 165 feet down and the other at 360 feet down, act like a lubricant when it gets wet. The entire peninsula is moving on top the deep layer of bentonite, and the "toe" of the slide is about 500 feet offshore, underwater.

@@Odin33356 whatcha doin here trolly Pollyanna? 😆I own a chevy dudder. I do know anyone who builds on unstable ground is a duffus that's for sure. Oi, Odinion. You gonna debate me or what😆😆

@@katthefantastic you grow marijuana indoors just to complain about power outages or fires created by them and dead firemen 😂

@@katthefantastic you don't have a high enough vibrational frequency or level of consciousness to know what love is or even be considered human

Well he gives a shit ton of $$ it to the illegals. Why not the legal residents? Ya know, who pay the taxes in this state? How much does it cost to give illegals free health care? They don't even know. Somewhere between $3-6 BILLION a year. Anyone who is really rich, has already moved out of CA. And they've taken their companies, employees, and that tax and payroll revenue with them.

“Gated community” well a poor gated community is a prison soooooo

Be careful. It's a Blue State. You're not implying that Democrats are rich, and trying to get richer by defrauding...the Government are you?

Google street view can't go up there because it's all gated off, screams pretty posh to me.

Anyone remember Harry R. Truman and his Mount St Helens Lodge? That same attitude, probably a similar ending.

Just say you hate Whites

Humble pie has been served

Average house price there is 1.9 million. I believe they can afford movers.

@@barryf5479 That wasn't what they paid for them 20-30 years ago. And, they're unsellable today.

The original developers and the city/county are criminally libel for ever allowing homes to be built on land the was known to be unstable. There were studies done in the ‘30’s by civil engineers, who stated no buildings should be built on that land. The city ignored it, and gave the developers the right to build. Follow the money.

@@barryf5479Not if all their money is wrapped up in a mortgage. Many middle class people will put their life savings into a house as an investment. Many of those folks are land poor, but now they’re just going to be poor.

@@barryf5479 Only if you are willing to buy their houses now.

Not a fault line. Slide zone.

@@JBoy340a There's a pretty active extension of the San Andreas fault that runs through there. At least, that's what they called it back then. I recall they had signs on P.V. Drive South, warning of "constant land movement, next 7/10ths of a mile".

God won't help you with that attitude, get ready for the heat.

​​@@sportsbesthighlightschanne1052God didn't build their homes there. Don't blame God. God won't help you with that attitude, get ready for the heat. 😂

😂 And have they asked Trump for a handout, considering his golf course in their community and all 🤷🏻‍♀️

👍that's what I said

Building where you shouldn't hs been a problem for rich and poor for millenia. Please.

RA's?????

@@jimmydee1130 Rich A******s

@@AdamS-t3w McMansions is an East Coast term. Most of these homes were built in the 1960s and 70s - long before the term "McMansion" entered your hateful lexicon. You know nothing about the area.

@@jimmydee1130 No they weren't. They've been spreading like a plague. There are new ones popping up all over the place. Good to see nature is fighting back.

Where it is safe there is 10 men to 1 woman so they act differently but not better.

@@teresadragstream8648 Yeah, where tubes come out of the sky and suck your home apart. 😅 At least it is over faster than this, I guess? My folks were from Missouri and moved to California in 1959. They preferred earthquakes, but also bought a hillside house that was anchored to bedrock and not on a clay landslide.

​@@toomignon You get some warning...

Except for the tornados.

God won't help you with that attitude, get ready for the heat.

God won't help you with that attitude, get ready for the heat.

​@@sportsbesthighlightschanne1052this touches at a lil deeper issue, the real ones going to Hell are the people who built, marketed, and sold these houses knowing full well the land was a concern. Apparently, they've known since the 70's but your acting people leaving RU-vid comments are the ones going to Hell. Get your head outta your ass

Rich people

They were worth millions...

House value means nothing, Income is more important. They need help.

Buying the house in the 80’s was so much more affordable and paid off by now. If the current situation hadn’t happened, those houses would be worth millions, but that doesn’t mean that the owners have millions in the bank.

their house values just dropped 50% and if the homes arent entirely paid off (most people have a mortgage in America) then guess what, they aint rich lol. This used to be middle class 40 years ago... youre just conditioned to think people with some decent properties are filthy rich these days, its funny but sad what has been normalized.

@@hajnika1111 Is that your definition of rich ?

They have jobs fool. How do you think they can afford CALIFORNIA. Get a life hick.

You don't know what a millennia is.

It's ironic one of RPV's neighboring cities is called ROLLING Hills.

@@mjg239 silly.

God won't help you with that attitude, get ready for the heat.

It does free up money for relocation and temp housing. But it seems a lot of people are trying to stay.

but illegals can, right? now the illegals get $150,000 free for a down on a house, ILLEGALS. no American gets this, trust me, no veteran, so many homeless Americans, but illegals, sure come right in and get free everything, just vote demoncrat!

But like the guy said, their entire value is connected to their paid off mansions.

Nothing like a little class-envy to make yourself feel superior, eh? Let's hope all YOUR decisions are as free from fate's paybacks as you think they are, pal.

@@jamessteele7010 "paid off mansions" get a grip, please. if you knew this area, it is not BEL AIR or BEVERLY HILLS, seriously. my mom bought a house here in the 70s, she was a frickin' waitress, okay? she worked hard everyday and she NEVER GOT WELFARE OR HANDOUTS, she worked. all of us kids worked too. ILLEGALS can come here, drop anchors and get paid to sit back and everything is free for them, our laws are not respected, we are drowning now and people resent others who actually are citizens and are having misfortune, THIS IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH AMERICA, our priorities are bass-ackwards, if you get my drift. wake up America, your Country is calling you. America First, after God Himself, this means OUR FAMILY.