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Homes evacuated in San Antonio as hill crumbles
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| 1-25-10
| MICHELLE ROBERTS
Posted on 01/25/2010 7:46:26 PM PST by kingattax
SAN ANTONIO – Construction crews moved dirt to shore up a group of houses precariously perched on a crumbling hill in San Antonio on Monday as engineers tried to determine why the land below was shifting, causing dozens of homes to evacuate
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: evacuation; homes; sanantonio
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posted on
01/25/2010 7:46:26 PM PST
by
kingattax
To: kingattax
I saw pix of this earlier! Thanks for the post.
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posted on
01/25/2010 7:48:34 PM PST
by
happinesswithoutpeace
(We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver)
To: happinesswithoutpeace
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posted on
01/25/2010 7:51:11 PM PST
by
kingattax
(99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
To: kingattax
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posted on
01/25/2010 7:52:43 PM PST
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
To: kingattax
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posted on
01/25/2010 7:57:33 PM PST
by
Shadowstrike
(Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
To: kingattax
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posted on
01/25/2010 8:02:54 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
(You can't ignore your boss and expect to keep your job... www.filipthishouse2010.com)
To: Shadowstrike
Pulte is one of the big builders so this will end up in a big money lawsuit. Pulte’s stock might get hit tomorrow..
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posted on
01/25/2010 8:03:21 PM PST
by
Oldexpat
To: kingattax
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posted on
01/25/2010 8:16:18 PM PST
by
onemiddleamerican
(FUBO - and all your terrorist buddies, too!)
To: onemiddleamerican
“Honey, the good news is that you don’t ever have the mow the back yard again.......”
What a mess. This ground movement is not over, either.
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posted on
01/25/2010 8:21:49 PM PST
by
exit82
(Democrats are the enemy of freedom. Sarah Palin is our Esther.)
To: kingattax
I would never buy a house with a retaining wall. It is common sense that it could fail at some point in time. Why take the risk?
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posted on
01/25/2010 8:27:47 PM PST
by
HwyChile
To: kingattax
Most likely built over an old garbage dump. Our city fathers allowed developers to build over such a place, then when the gases started coming out, they played dumb.
Some of our dumps are so large now, I joke about this a lot, one day those sites will become resort areas with ski lifts.
To: kingattax
The sewer manhole tells the whole story. Leak in the pipe
saturated the soil -— hill side slumped. (Recent heavy rains probably helped out as well as lawn watering.)
Failure waiting to happen.
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posted on
01/25/2010 8:59:22 PM PST
by
TaMoDee
To: annieokie
“Some of our dumps are so large now, I joke about this a lot, one day those sites will become resort areas with ski lifts.”
Garbage Hill in Winnepeg, Manitoba is great for tobaggoning. I remember visiting my aunt in Winnepeg when I was a kid and Garbage Hill was still being created - with daily garbage dumping.
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posted on
01/25/2010 9:19:06 PM PST
by
GGpaX4DumpedTea
(I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
To: smokingfrog
No, no. War of the Worlds 2005.
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posted on
01/25/2010 9:19:23 PM PST
by
386wt
To: onemiddleamerican
Those pictures really scare me. Yikes.
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posted on
01/25/2010 10:30:00 PM PST
by
peggybac
To: GGpaX4DumpedTea
HAHAHAHAHAHA, I just knew it would happen somewhere. lol. That is so funny, but believe me, in about 50/100 years this City will allow some developer to build on those mountains of TRASH and not disclose anything.
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