To the editor: I’m unhappy to learn of the landslide in Rancho Palos Verdes, however apparently the folks residing there need the federal government to combat Mom Nature. (“Palos Verdes landslide keeps getting worse. Residents’ anger boils,” Sept. 22)
On Jan. 10, 2005, a landslide struck the coastal neighborhood of La Conchita in Ventura County, destroying or critically damaging 36 homes and killing 10 folks. This was not the primary harmful landslide to break this neighborhood, neither is it prone to be the final, in accordance with the U.S. Geological Survey.
Landslides within the cliffs and hills close to seashores are frequent. Amtrak has needed to cease service via Sam Clemente due to landslides close to its tracks in that space.
Anger is not going to clear up this drawback. If there was an answer to the landslide in Rancho Palos Verdes, the federal government would have already taken that motion.
Don Evans, Canoga Park
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To the editor: I grew up in Lengthy Seaside. I bear in mind articles within the Lengthy Seaside Press-Telegram newspaper from the Nineteen Fifties mentioning the landslide within the Portuguese Bend space of Rancho Palos Verdes, a part of a well known space of prehistoric landslides.
The landslide there was reactivated in 1969, and there was steady earth motion ever since. One of the crucial latest spectacular failures occurred on the former Ocean Trails Golf Membership in 1999, resulting in its chapter.
Within the Nineteen Fifties and ’60s, plainly the earth and homes would slide and ultimately be bulldozed, and after a requisite time new houses could be in-built the identical areas of Portuguese Bend. I questioned then as now why constructing permits would ever be granted in such a identified unstable space.
Mom Nature all the time has the final phrase.
Richard Wulfsberg, Studio Metropolis
