Currently, Spain and especially communities like Catalonia are undergoing a period of unprecedented crisis. The lack of widespread rain in recent months has led to the activation of the climate emergency alert, with restrictions that could become much more severe once summer arrives. A spectrum totally opposite to that experienced in areas like the United States, where storms threaten to sweep away entire houses.
That is the particular case of three luxury mansions located on the edge of a cliff in Dana Point, Orange County, California. The water that has fallen in recent days on the North American West Coast has led to landslides and rocks towards the Pacific Ocean, uncovering the critical positional situation in which the three cases, 12.8 million, 13 million and 15.9 million, find themselves. of dollars respectively.
“The engineers who have already inspected the home said there is no damage and there is no imminent threat to the structure, which is really good news. So, frankly, it seems much scarier than it really is,” the mayor of Dana Point, Jamey Federico, told local television after some eerie images recorded through drones that show the zero distance between the land of the houses and the gap in the cliff.
The three mansions are currently under supervision and analysis by engineering experts to determine the current state of their structural stability. According to sources reported to the Los Angeles Times, none of the three owners of the three houses have yet received an evacuation request from local authorities. However, doubts remain among those who monitor the situation closely.
The storms left significant traces in other parts of California, leaving a total of 190 milliliters of water in a single week, leaving the total annual record at 240. Figures that give greater dimension to the incident, leaving even more than 500 mudslides only in the state capital, Los Angeles. A sign of the climate problems that will have to be faced, as various experts pointed out.
“It's really important that we track these events and understand how our coast is changing over time,” said Adam Young, a researcher in the Coastal Processes Group at the University of California. In fact, in the case of mansions on the cliff, it has been recommended to place tarps on the ground and pipes in the gutters to divert water from the foundations, as civil engineer Steve Viani told ABC News.
