California Landslide: Earth Movement Blamed; Luxury Homes Crumble
California Landslide: Earth Movement Blamed; Luxury Homes Crumble
In San Clemente, California, midway between Los Angeles and San Diego, violent earth movement has destroyed several homes while an entire street is actually sliding into the Pacific Ocean. Damage in the hundreds of thousands of dollars in the wake of what city officials call "A natural phenomenon." Traveling shot of the partially standing remains of what was once a street of luxury homes. The remains of a collapsed house rest on the edge of a slope of land that gave way leading directly the beach shore. Various shots of the beach through the badly damaged existing house. The beach is then seen through a broken window caused by the land's movement. Two engineers walk above and below a large sink hole in the street. Trees are uprooted. Roofs are covered in debris. Looking up from the beach, houses have twisted and turned in the natural disaster Looks more like piles of lumber and rubble than a functional framework of a house. Part of a house is swallowed up by a sink hole. The foundation of another home has heaved and cracked because of the land movement. Families stand on the beach below their houses watching their houses slowly falling apart.