Letters to the Editor: I live in the Palos Verdes landslide. Here’s what ‘you can’t fight nature’ gets wrong
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: I live in the Palos Verdes landslide. Here’s what ‘you can’t fight nature’ gets wrong

LA Times  

Cars make their way on a section of road affected by the Portuguese Bend landslide in Rancho Palos Verdes on Aug. 21. To the editor: I live in the Portuguese Bend landslide area of Rancho Palos Verdes and have for a long time. To the editor: Sadly, any California geology student remembers the textbook chapter about the Portuguese Bend landslide in Palos Verdes. When wetter-than-normal winter rains soak into those layers, they become “slick as snot,” and the overlying strata simply slide toward the Pacific Ocean under their own weight.

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In a landslide-stricken town in California, life is like camping with no power, gas
6 months, 2 weeks ago

In a landslide-stricken town in California, life is like camping with no power, gas

Associated Press  

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — Nick Mardesic and his family are living off the power grid, so light at night comes from a flashlight, and a hot meal and shower require driving several miles to his parents’ home. “It’s almost unbelievable … just watching your house sink away.” The landslides are the latest catastrophe in California, already burdened by worsening …

Winter rains fuel ‘unprecedented’ acceleration, expansion of landslides in Rancho Palos Verdes
1 year, 1 month ago

Winter rains fuel ‘unprecedented’ acceleration, expansion of landslides in Rancho Palos Verdes

LA Times  

Since 1982, Sallie Reeves and her husband have lived atop a serene Rancho Palos Verdes canyon, overlooking the sparkling Pacific Ocean and Catalina Island, with little reason to worry about the slow-moving landslide complex beneath their feet. “Now we’re making repairs.” Sallie Reeves looks out at the view from her back deck at the home she has lived in for …

A chunk of Rancho Palos Verdes is sliding into the sea. Can the city stop it?
2 years ago

A chunk of Rancho Palos Verdes is sliding into the sea. Can the city stop it?

LA Times  

The city of Rancho Palos Verdes is mounting a plan to slow a landslide that has been shifting Portuguese Bend for seven decades. The Portuguese Bend landslide was triggered in the summer of 1956 — nearly two decades before Rancho Palos Verdes became a city — when a Los Angeles County road crew was constructing an extension of Crenshaw Boulevard …

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