(TNS) - A landslide struck Laguna Beach’s Bluebird Canyon in 1978 — smashing cars, buckling streets and destroying 24 homes. An adjacent swath of earth broke loose in 2005, wiping out 12 more homes.That wasn’t enough to keep Scott Tenney away. But in Southern California it’s an extremely common one, because that geological diversity, as Tenney calls it, is not just the danger. And California holds more homes in this dangerous zone than any other state in the country.And prices keep soaring. His time is split between that and taming the erosion-prone land beneath the farm.To combat sliding land, Tenney installed a gravity wall, 200 feet long and 9 feet tall, to retain the hillside.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 23, 2023 16:42 UTC