Posted on 05/11/2013 10:19:31 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Scott and Robin Spivey had a sinking feeling that something was wrong with their home when cracks began snaking across their walls in March. The cracks soon turned into gaping fractures, and within two weeks their 600-square-foot garage broke from the house and the entire property—manicured lawn and all—dropped 10 feet below the street.
It wasn’t long before the houses on both sides collapsed as the ground gave way in the Spivey’s neighborhood in Lake County, about 100 miles north of San Francisco. …
Unlike sinkholes of Florida that can gobble homes in an instant, this collapse in hilly volcanic country can move many feet on one day and just a fraction of an inch the next. Officials believe water that has bubbled to the surface is playing a role in the destruction. But nobody can explain why suddenly there is plentiful water atop the hill in a county with groundwater shortages. …
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Well.... the experts predicted that California would eventually fall into the ocean. I guess they just didn’t foresee it happening one house at a time.
If we lose California, we lose Free Republic.
Well they ARE in California, after all.
If it happens, you will have to have scuba gear to logon to Free Republic.
Sinkholes in paradise.. ouch.. we all are settling to some degree.
Trade FR for millions of illegals and nutjob liberals. Okay...
More likely, Obama and his administration are just a reflection of our society.
Works fine for me. Maybe the AP site was down. They like to play around with their links sometimes . . .
One leads to the other. (Reference Isaiah 3:4).
That would be like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Most fitting ....
I sure hope that “As California goes, so goes the country” thing isn’t true.
No where near San Andreas fault, which lies off the coast in the Pacific. More likely it's the nearby Mt. Konocti volcano, which is dormant. Underground geothermal vents in the region may be venting towards the direction of the subdivision. Gas & electric utilities north of San Francisco get much of their electricity generation from geothermal. Before my wife retired from PG&E, she had to visit geothermal plants near volcano ranges in northern California, and said the vents are quite active (stinking of sulfur). PG&E was forced to sell off their geothermal generation a few years back. These volcanos are dormant, but not dead.
Mud pots, fumaroles, steam vents and hot springs are very active further north at Lassen.
And Lassen’s last eruption was in 1917.
I lived in California for years and had a basement and saw many basements. Where there are no basements is in Louisiana.
I lived there as well and never saw a basement and here’s why:
http://www.finehomebuilding.com/how-to/qa/basements-california-homes.aspx
I would call this “a small start, but a good start”.
Again, the house I lived in in L.A. had a basement, I visited innumerable.houses that had them, spent a lot of time in the SF area and saw houses with basements.
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