ot- CA mudslide

RipublicaninMass

My prayers go out to the families in California, what a horrible disaster. Do we have any member from around here.

EagleEyeKid

That's the one in Topanga Canyon.
I'm in the high desert but work in Los Angeles
and I can't take anymore of this rain. I'm still pissed at
the stupid lady from Palmdale (my area) that drove thru the
barricades on Sunday and got stuck in the waters with her 3 kids. Helicopter
rescues got the first 2 kids, and then was lifting her and the baby and she
dropped the baby (2 yr old). Kid was found at the end of the wash at 1AM
Monday morning and pronounced dead at the hospital. Dumb b***ch!

MorrellMan

I live in Coldwater Canyon, and, in going home last night, I took Laurel Canyon instead because my canyon had been closed in the morning. I saw the house on Laurel that was turned into rubble - I remember when they built that house about 5 years ago. Fortunately, the hill behind my house is solid granite but there was mud run-off maybe 500 yards up the street from us that caused the closure this morning. We were in Europe up until yesterday and had no idea about all this rain until we got back.

On the bright side, today is sunny and beautiful. Looks like your prayers helped. Thanks.

Stone193

I always feel sad when there is a disaster...my heart and prayers go out to those affected.
I wonder if the rest of the world considers the US in their thoughts and prayers like they expect from us?

your friend
Mike

NewJerseyMeatHook

Good point, Mike.

As a classroom teacher, we were asked to place tsunami relief collections boxes in our rooms for donations to the Red Cross. I wonder if these countries did the same on 9/11.

My sister lives in West Hollyweird and says the rainfall is unbelievable.

Many prayers to those affected.

pc

a house on my block MOVED
and the elder couple there
were allowed to grab their
belongings to never return.

Knuckles

I'm afraid we're going to see a lot of devistation from weather/natural disasters in the years to come. The weather has been so screwed up. Snowing in Vega's.. +15°C in December here in Edmonton, Alberta when it should have been between -20°C & -35°C. Hell we had a thunder and lightning storm here in the middle of winter.

Pollution/global warming's a bit_h. The movie Day After Tomorrow seems far fetched but who knows.. maybe not so?

JERO

Its all the price you pay for living in paradise, unfortunately due to reckless building on cliffs and such, we are ALL paying for it through higher insurance rates. So in a way, its kinda like the risk was there, but you made the decision anyway. Sometimes you get burned I guess. Currently living in Chicago... No earthquakes, no tsunamis, no mudslides, very rare tornado, no wild fires, no water shortages or restrictions, etc... BUT its cold as all get out and its gray 60% of the time, the traffic is for crap, the taxation is terrible, and the cost of living is high. Sure i'd like to live in San Diego but 350K for a old cardboard townhome on the border of Mexico isn't going to happen. I looked at investment property in Mission Beach CA a year ago and was astonished that "nobody has flood insurance" nobody sells it, nobody has it... being 15 feet from the sand!! So I guess everyone counts on a government bailout for half million dollar 600sq ft homes on the beach?! I spent a week in San Francisco a couple years ago and it was in January (the rainy season afterall) and it rained every damn day except for one. My friend is in Sausalito on the edge of a mountain and i'm thinking don't these houses just slide off the hill sometimes?! His response... yup, they sure do, people don't care. I still remember the ground being soooo soft and saturated and looking up the hill and seeing nearly every possible space crammed in with a 3 story houses counterleverd into the hill. Insane. California is beautiful, but man does it come at a cost. I'm not poking fun at tragedy but when the big earthquake comes in Cali I can just see all the people in disbelief on TV. Really... you didn't see this coming?! In the end, hopefully human loss is minimized but sometimes avoiding the risk is the best safeguard.

JERO

As for screwed up weather... I was in Houston for x-mas this year and it snowed for the first time there since 1996. In south Texas and Galveston Island they had 4 inches of snow. The front page of the paper x-mas was a couple of snowmen on the beach with the ocean in the background. Insane...