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Well you'll sweat a bit more and might have to remember to tie your boat to your upper window, but at least your house isn't falling into the canyon. On the western side;

HOMES THREATENED by sliding hillside | FS106 | Pear Tree Ln #RollingHillsEstates | #LACoFD units were on scene monitoring situation. 12 homes evacuated. pic.twitter.com/ruXIhKD82m

— L.A. County Fire Department (@LACoFDPIO) July 9, 2023

Heres what you didnt see from todays #RollingHillsEstates land/house slide.Below in the canyon the dirt & hillside areas were moving very rapidly dumping in the base of the canyon.These homes will eventually fall into the canyon floor as the earth below keeps moving. 07-09-23 pic.twitter.com/cQ4WYbbVes

— Matt Hartman (@ShorealoneFilms) July 10, 2023

Hillside homes in an affluent southern California community crumbled and cracked over the weekend as the land beneath them shifted and slid into a canyon below, forcing residents to evacuate.

More than a dozen residents of the Rolling Hills Estates in Los Angeles county rushed to leave on Saturday after the sidewalks fractured and houses splintered.

“We have never seen this kind of damage to our infrastructure,” city councilmember Frank Zerunyan said on Twitter after the incident. “Mother Nature has not been kind to several homes. They are about to be at the bottom of the canyon very soon.”

After cracks were discovered in one home on Saturday, officials with the Los Angeles county fire department ordered those in 12 adjacent homes to vacate as energy providers shut off power and gas to the area.

“They discovered cracks along the structure of one building, and upon further investigation they realized that there were some cracks running through one home specifically, and it was progressing to the next home,” LAFD Captain Chiyoshi Hasegawa told KTLA, a local news team. “We got additional specialists to assess the situation, and after assessing the situation we realized there were 12 homes that had received damage either inside of their home or outside of the structure.”

Walls and roofs began to fail as foundations continued to slide – and the land hasn’t yet settled. “Homes have been pulled off their foundations,” Janice Hahn, the chair of the Los Angeles county Board of supervisors said in an update on Twitter. “The land is continuing to move, but the evacuation order continues to be limited to these 12 homes.”

This neighborhood hasn’t had issues since it was built in 1978 according to officials, who said the severe storms that pummeled the region this winter could be the culprit. It will take time for geologists to assess the cause of this slow-moving catastrophe as homes continue to slip toward the canyons below.

“To think that these homes were intact, you know, yesterday afternoon, and today you can hear the creaking, the cracking, the crumbling,” Hahn said during a press briefing on Sunday. “They’re going to fall.”

The Associated Press contributed to this story

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/10/california-los-angeles-houses-rolling-hills-landslide-evacuate-residents