Watch: Landslide Crushes a Home
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2014
- NORTH SALT LAKE, Utah -- A news crew from ABC 22/FOX 45 sister station KUTV was first on the scene and captured this amazing video of a land slide in a North Salt Lake neighborhood.
A neighborhood has been evacuated after a landslide crushed a home early Tuesday morning.
Officials are concerned the slide is threatening other homes in the area. Residents have been asked to grab essential items from their homes and to leave to a safe area while crews assess the situation.
Any residents in need of assistance are being directed to a safe location, where crews will have supplies available.
The incident started about a week and a half ago, on the hill above the Eagle Ridge Tennis and Swim Club on Parkway Drive. Neighbors say they noticed the earth begin to move when a developer began prepping several lots at the top of the hill.
The developer and the city of North Salt Lake have been working together to figure out what to do next. City Manager Barry Edwards told 2News reporter Chris Jones on Monday it is not a matter of "if" but "when" the earth would slide off the mountain.
Source: KUTV
The realtor, engineer, and developer knew this was a risk, as the area had historic landslide problems, but profit wins over all. Congratulations on your sale, guys.
Realtors can be assholes who will throw you under a bus to make a sale. Don't completely trust anyone who wants to sell you something. Investigate. Check it out.
Blaming the realtor is totally unfair, this is the builder and developer’s fault.
Historic landslide problems this place was a fucking gravel pit from when they built I 15 these people need to realize what they are buying beforehand and the developers of this particular subdivision are giant douchebag I have dealt with them before.
and most earth MOVEMENT is NOT covered under a homeowner insurance policy!
SO TRUE ! no accountability anywhere... absolute nightmare... those poor people... 😭
The compassion shown by the neighbors is heartwarming. Such kindness in the face of tragedy.
Only compasion is if they help them make new home everything else is bla bla...
me thinks u mistake 'compassion' for...
fear
that THEIR-HOMES-ARE-NEXT
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@@davidbea3711 oh bazzi grammar hello 😅
That’s what I just said. 😢🙏🏾
Compassion on the surface, sense of relief underneath.. :)
I'm geotech that studied in Utah but don't work in that state. The benches along the Wasatch Front are unconsolidated lake deposits. Often with silt/clay layers, which allow for slip planes for mass wasting (all types of landslides). This typically occurs due to the upper soil becoming saturated with water, which over burdens the slope and causes slides because of the increased weight.
The walls in the video are illegal where I am, as any wall over 4' has to be engineered. Typically, as a mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls. These walls typically include geogrid at a length at least as tall as the wall, and these walls often have drains of clean crushed/washed rock directly behind the blocks to prevent water building up. The wall in the video was just blocks as far as I can see. And that was never going to hold that hillside, even if the slope was glacially consolidated soil. Let alone unconsolidated lake deposits.
Where I work, no municipality (city/county) would create permits to the landowner/builder without a geotechnical and slope assessment to create a geotechnical report of the proposed building site. And even the most cursory geologic site recon would catch these issues. And would require solutions before any build permits were issued.
During construction, there should also be third party monitoring. Whether the municipality inspectors themselves or special inspectors (typically someone like myself) who are already making visits to ensure that engineered wall plans are being followed and catch any geologic issues that arise. That way, corners aren't being cut.
It's clear that Salt Lake City did not have a system like that in place. As this was entirely preventable since these issues have been well known for more than half-a-century. In my opinion, this was entirely the local government's fault, which should have prevented any building until a site assessment and geotechnical plan was in place to discover and find solutions before they get to this point. Especially, since I seriously doubt any insurance company would create a policy for an area where their company is going to have to pay out sooner or later.
It would be so great if you could somehow be in contact with these peoples' attorneys and be and expert witness for them. This is TRAGIC. I feel so badly for these folks. May the community come together to help and get these people back into a home. BTW, your explanation was very interesting. Same thing is occurring in Palos Verdes peninsula in southern CA. Bentonite clay layers and marine terracing. Houses are just slip sliding away. Really sad.
City I used to live in had building moratorium on development in a area prone to these issues. Funny how all it takes is a few dollars in the media's pockets and a few politicians pockets and suddenly there are thousands of unsuspecting new home owners who are unscrupulous enough to invest in.
Nobody will ever be held to account, without tax payers brunt the cost. Same thing with big Pharma and the experimentation project the Vatican still supports despite data that says it is not safe or effective.
Money sure is a driving force for evil.
@@svenlundergard1agree, would be great to help that family and those next door as they are facing the same fate
Interesting, thank you
@@svenlundergard1 Yall this video is like a decade old maybe like move on
Im blown away about how much the neighbors loved that family.
It's probably the 2nd or 3rd time they're seeing them..
Family? Did you not hear what they said? Multiple families and "immigration issues"
😂😂
Yeah... I also love my neighbors if you put a camera in my face 😅
These are good neighbors. They cared so much it brought them to tears.
Did they offer the family’s in need a place to stay at their homes? It’s called bullsh@t virtue signaling. People act like they care but when it comes to actually doing something to help they all run away.
@@Jetsetfastfood Yea they did.
@@Jetsetfastfood Guessing they did, as many of these people go to the same church. Considering they knew so many details, I'm thinking they were close to their neighbors.
@@Jetsetfastfood
No. Nope you’re wrong. These are god fearing Americans. There is no virtue signaling going on out in Mormon country just good caring people looking out for their neighbors. They don’t signal anything! They live their lives that way!
@@Jetsetfastfood 👈sounds like something you have done from memory. Projection has shown it's face quite often in the last 5 to 6 years
My uncle was a geologist. Back in the 1960's or 1970's he commented on how developers were just bulldozing off the "toes" of hills and mountains to make level land for building, and how it was a disaster waiting to happen. The house in this video appears to be less than a decade old. The lesson hasn't been learned.
Our McMansion neighbors had the audacity to blame our pond for creating sinkholes in all of their backyards and their driveways.😂😂 I was like, no it’s because you built your McMansion neighborhood overtop a mountain runoff 15 years ago. People really don’t have a clue about this stuff.
Haha. Commenters acting like the neighbors were welcoming refugees in from a war torn country.
Come on, peeps. This was an upper upper class neighborhood in 1st world Utah. News is always slow but fear mongering is always fast.
Yes, I looked at the first seconds and thought, "That was only a matter of time with that steep slope behind those homes." The county needs to be asked why they granted that building permit and occupancy permit. Somebody with the proper training is supposed to be out there protecting laymen from what they don't know.
@@eddarby469 sell it to immigrants...what do they know??
that what you get when you piss-off mother nature
It amazes so many cities allow construction on such unstable land. They should be held totally responsible for allow this. So sorry to the owners for this loss.
It amazes me how they allow these stick and cardboard shacks to be built.
@@muadhnate Well yeh, by definition lol 😂
It amazes me how entitled you clowns think you are. What responsible home owner doesn't their own due diligence? You should figure out yourself if the house you're buying is on stable land. Leaving that responsibility to the city and construction companies is foolish and immature as can be
Do you want to "cut red and green tape" this is what happens. This is why the rules the people say is unneeded regulations exist.
@@letsburn00 This makes no sense. City planners are at fault for allowing construction on unstable land.
I remember this. The developer wasn't supposed to build on that hillside but since in Utah developers give a lot of money to the church they can do whatever they want. Then the city bailed out the homeowner.
Clearly the dirt was raciss and attacked the immigrants if the reporter is to be believed.
I talked to a builder, years ago, who I saw putting a subdivision on an unstable hillside. I asked him if he knew those homes wouldn't last 20 years. He said, "that's what insurance is for." Take a lesson from this. NO ONE cares about how your hard work and investment turns out. Especially the people who profit from your spending. Bad people earn money, too. "Wise as serpents. Harmless as doves."
he’s so evil cuz people could get hurt and insurance doesn’t cover grief
Was talking to a man who did work on a subdivision years ago. He was looking at buying a house there but one of the contractors working on the drainage told him not to, the ground didn't seem right to him. 20 years later earthquake damage caused the whole subdivision to be demolished and now it is unable to be used for housing.
The builder is trying to feed his family. Blame the local government for allowing homes to be built on that land.
I'll say it. American labor built this all the way from local government to greedy developers to shit labor. No pride, no care, all gimme gimme gimme. American labor.
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The pain in the neighbors face speaks volumes about how they feel towards those people losing everything. So sad.
I'm sure they had insurance...
@@rpg_haven not the point, you can’t get back memories, pictures, valuables etc. there are some insurances companies that will fight not to pay for these kinds of damages Bc they are “an act of God” I hope they Will
_Act of God_ is the main coverage in property damage.
But yes, they’re not going to compensate you $10k for a picture your grandma painted…unless she’s *Georgia O'Keeffe*
@@h2w25
Are you serious?
Is the “act of God” a valid point in the insurance policies?
@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 100%, I own a roofing company. I replaced about 75 roofs in my city in 2021 they were paid for by ‘act of God’ insurance clauses: hail, tornado, High winds etc etc
Always think about your surroundings.
" it is the best people" said the neighbor..Wow..!! Some people you can love easily, God bless you neighbors, hopefully the homeowner gets a new home
In other words, the occupants of the damaged house the young man called "the best people" were illegal immigrants. Was God telling them to go back where they came from?
@@DariusLundberg Hard to believe some people think so stupidly!!!!!!!!!! Where did you and your ancestors come from? Its probably time for you to go back!! where you come from!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Would be nice if you can leave Now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree I wish them a new home. Funnily others say it is a couple of families and that they have ‘immigration issues’. I don’t think the neighborhood knows itself well.
Someone does not understand what “time-lapse” means.
Indeed!
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Can't believe I had to scroll this far down to find someone else pointing this out.
Right!
I live in a flat and it's impossible, see Mark ,I can't sub let.
The love between the neighbors is incredible. We all need to live this way.
I would say it's all an act lmao.
And it’s more special because they are immigrants. #blm #wewilltakeover #trans #binary #punchnazis #columbuswasanazi
Nah. Life would be seriously boring if we all got along.
@@draytonwright6345 Because you hate your neighbors? Damn that's crazy. You wouldn't feel for your neighbors? Man a lot of y'all seem cold. Damn
@@DrivenA111 Naw I'm pretty cool with my neighbors. I just find it phoney is all.
Those are such lovely neighbors. Such strong empathy.
The guy interviewed at the end was pretty calm. Considering he lives 2 lots away. Have an engineer and lawyer set up on speed dial.
That’s horrible I hope everything works out for them. Nice to see such caring neighbors though in this world of rude entitled people.
If you think most people are rude and entitled, I suggest you get off the internet and out in the real world
totaly i agree
This was 8 years ago, back before the Democrats destroyed the world and human spirit
@@solarpony still its very sad
I'm starting to feel like people who accuse the rest of the world of being rude and entitled are the problem, no doubt such pessimism makes rudeness and entitlement contagious to your own being.
Love how they comforted their neighbor, at a time of need. That's what being an American is suppose to be.
Not this 'Us Against Them' mentality we have today. I hope they found comfort and peace. 🙏🏼☝🏼
I’d say this is what being human is supposed to be, not just “american”
These are Mormons
@staci milligan It's not Mormon, it isn't the church of Mormon. It's members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. LDS.
Who gives a damn about correcting a spelling error or anything else when a family is devastated !!!!
Go get your teaching credentials if you want to correct papers !!!! I'm mormon and have been 69 years now correct me.... Self righteous people are not doing no one help...
I’m sure Germans, Italians, British…. Would all do the same. Americans didn’t invent “caring”🙄🙄
I know this is devastating but one smidge of positivity out of this is how caring and empathic their neighbors are rallying around and supporting this family, that's incredible. I hope their neighbors and others in that area continue to support them through this difficult process of rebuilding and recovering.
This reminds me of a house I found listed for rent in Laguna Beach for $1,200 a month! I was sooo tempted, because the average rent in the neighborhood was $3,500 and I could afford the $1,200 a month on a secretary's salary.
Till I drove out and had a look at the place, that is!
I get there, get out of my car, walk into the back yard and realize that the beautiful view has a serious downside - a retaining wall that looked like it had moved an inch or two recently.
I didn't even waste my time seeing the inside of that property. I knew when I saw the retaining wall that I'd never get any sleep if I moved there!
(And it was worse than this one; there were 2 houses higher up that could have come crashing down on TOP of me!)
And yeah; I ditched the Realtoe right quick....
This happened 7 years ago.
@Ronald Ricard relax Rich, perhaps some medicinal marijuana would help
@Ronald Ricard what a sad person you are. You turn a wonderful , positive comment into crap.
Lol and he does it 7 years later xD
Thankful that nobody got hurt, and I hope for those displaced families a speedy return to normalcy.
The tears are falling along with the property value.
*Timelapse shown intermittently during interviews and witness reaction shots*
Hahaha
Thanks Capt. Obvious. So the slide was gradual.
The rest of us gets it.
Literally what I was thinking lol
Don't forget the yammering talking head that thinks it's all about the sound of their voice while we listen to them describe it.
Lol
8 years later, and people are building houses as far up the mountain as they possibly can in the Salt Lake City area, and some of them are right along a fault line! I don't understand how this is allowed. Even after an earthquake knocked Angel Moroni off the Salt Lake City temple, they are still building on the side of the mountain. Sure, it's heartwarming to see neighbors care about each other, and I don't want to take away from that. However, there's a lot of foolishness there, too.
Yes its all about greed, utah is becoming california..
Can't fix stupid!
mormon politics
Cuz real estate making billions and which ever department that is responsible for safety obviously don’t care bout the lives of the residents. So is greed compounded by more greed.
In my hometown, here in Germany, there are some parts which have regularly been flooded during higher tides (about every 5 years or so). People still build new homes there and then act like victims when their basement turns into a giant bath tub.
This is just awful. My heart, thoughts and prayers go out to this family. Thank goodness no one was injured or killed. I sure as hell hope the developers and builders were held accountable!
Man I need some compassion like that man for reals
So glad this was a slow motion slide and everyone affected were able to get to safety. As devastating as it is to lose your home and possessions, things and stuff can be replaced.
Maybe they can get some hard hat guys to shore it up enough to safely extract valuables & other cherished items.
That is correct
Actually, this is horrible! My heart goes out to these poor people! Prayers for them 🙏🙏
I agree but need to ask what's the difference between things and stuff? LoL
@@sarax5603 Ha! Don't know. We may have to consult with some philosophers about this. Could be a profound mystery of life that causes us to lie awake at night! Or maybe I stumbled into redundancy. LOL!
Clearly the developers knew that this would happen. They should face a massive lawsuits. Thus should include the department of planning and all other departments involved!!!
Insurance companies will be right on this
Nothing is going to happen to the county ,,here in Miami a bridge collapsed and killed 6 people and clearly the city was responsible for allowing traffic under this partially constructed bridge and everything is under the rug ,, no one was fired or arrested
I don't see it that way nobody forced these people to buy the home even as a small child I had the common sense to see hey if I live under this hill chances are it's going to fall
@@smp-vn3pc not all hills fall and most people wouldn’t assume that. Whoever built these homes there should’ve assured it was safe. There are plenty of homes built on, near and around hills and this doesn’t happen.
@@IGot7RevtinyArmyStayOnceBlink yeah I guess that's true but that's just somewhere if I had a choice I wouldn't want to live
I lost everything but a hard drive with all of the photos, my wallet and car key in a fire but there was complete insurance and nobody got hurt. Surprisingly, it was easy to get over the material loss. Finding a temporary home for a year for 7 people plus animals was the hard part. We hopped from place to place while there were openings.
You saved the important things. Furniture, tvs etc can be replaced photos can't.
Guess it kinda sucks when the very earth itself says "You ain't welcome here."
It's beautiful to see people displaying empathy for one another.
Just for the camera they do . You really think they are like that behind the scenes, of course they aren't
better is see people thinking plant trees
@@puppshades2554 Yes, I do think they are. I've had people like them stop by to say hello and just check on my family to make sure we're doing okay. When any neighbor needs help moving, a ton of people show up that most can't even help because there's only so much room in the house that the others are more in the way. My neighbors found out my mom accidentally cut her pinky and asked if she wanted them to make dinner or anything else she might need. She laughed a little because it wasn't that big of a deal, but it was really nice of them to offer that.
These people are almost always exactly how they act. They aren't wanting anything in return or trying to do anything more than help how they can.
It is kind of funny though how people will know that there likely to be LDS because they're in Utah and will act like they have ulterior motives when they pretty much always just actually want to help. Then those same people will just sit there and be like, "See? The Mormons aren't there yet. They must not care" as they're doing nothing to help. People like to criticize religious people because they hold them to higher standards than others and they like to judge them for not doing things they also aren't doing or if they make mistakes that they also make. Just because someone's religious doesn't mean they're anywhere near perfect and Mormons don't believe they're perfect either.
I'm not even LDS anymore because I have my problems with the church as a whole, but the members are generally great
That's because the victims weren't Black.
Where's Mr. Bundy when we need him?
My father RIP told me never to buy a house on a hill or slope! And not in a flood plain! Glad I listened to him!
so your fathers name was RIP??
@@chucks_88 yes, but I was curious why he didn't write it "Rip" and then it hit me, his father Rip died but instead of writing RIP Rip he just used RIP to cover both words at once, pretty clever
My father dick everhard told me to never buy a house on top of a volcano or in the middle of the ocean. Glad I listened to him!
@@Hanson032 My dad Phil McCracken told me to never buy a house on Indian burial ground. Glad I listened to him.
"Do not buy on a hill. Do not buy on flat land either." lol
In layton,utah there are 15 brand new homes sitting east of i15 on a hill. This was back in 2006. The hill started sliding but even though only 1 house was slightly damaged, the rest of the new houses were condemned and everybody had to move. Hotta love developers.
I remember that well. I was living in ogden when that happened. Never found out if the engineers got in trouble for that mess.
My prayers for this family! So devastating to lose everything. Amazing neighbors to come together, comfort and support. You are blessed in this tragic time!
You realize that this happened almost 10 years ago?
@@hpygolkyone Does it matter when it happened? Doesn't change the fact that the neighbors were amazing to come together to help this family.
@@hpygolkyone You realize that your comment is pointless?
@@adcoxrobert3786 ....You do realize that you are an idiot, right?
The compassion of the neighbors speaks worlds about their humanity
We will never know.
A multi family house full of immigrants losses their house to a natural disaster.
You are white and live down the street and a news crew comes asking about them.
What do you say?
Obviously no matter what you really think or what the truth is, you say they were great. The best and kindest.
Anything other than that and you are probably a racist Nazi lover.
So of course everyone around liked and cared about them. Wether they did or not.
Because they said some flowery words in front of a news camera. I'm not implying that they didn't legitimately feel bad for the family (I of course can't read their minds), but I think you need to raise your standards a bit.
Pretty nice house for people dealing with "immigration issues." Maybe they bought that house with the half a million dollars the liberals and Brandon want to pay them while Americans suffer.
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They do?
Why they don’t speak about their humanity when they sent our army to Afghanistan and Iraq?
Lifelong Utahn here, this stuff happens here all the time. So many people have moved into a small portion of the state (Wasatch Front) that it’s made developers build housing in areas with problems like that. Flooding, mudslides, or too soft of ground. I tried to buy a house 2 years ago and it failed inspection. The entire foundation sunk 1.5 feet and the owner was trying to reassure us it wasn’t a big deal. Until the inspector said “I can’t get under your house to see anything, that is a big deal!!”
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Your absolutely right but here in YT land instead of looking at the reality of the situation... Aw their neighbors are so great. That poor family. No people this is not a story of human kindness. It's just the opposite. This man and his neighbors got screwed by a criminal developer.
Before you buy land YOU need to research the land. The last home I worked on had a ten acre lot and cost millions. Because of local laws the seller was not bound to let the buyer know his new house sat in the middle of an old land fill. The smell when summer came was beyond bad. The house was sinking. The pool had cracked. Garbage like a refrigerator and nasty dippers were seen through the cracks.
Having lived a chunk of my life in the Bountiful/North Salt lake area, I found it amazing that the developers would be allowed to build over where this took place , or anywhere along the old Lake Bonneville shoreline, as that's exactly what these foothills are, an ancient shoreline made up of a lot of sediment and sand. What folks also tend to forget is that the Wasatch Fault Line runs directly under this area and when the big quake does strike, a lot of those fancy schmancy castles high up are going to be sitting down with us valley dwellers in our back yards.
I work on slabs. The most anything sinks is less than a centimeter and over years it may sink less than one inch causing some cracks to form between the flat work and the slab. So when you said 1.5 feet?! I could just imagine the shit show that inspector saw. And there is no way to fix a slab that is sinking that much. They will have to demolish it.
Wow, that’s so sad. I pray they can recover financially to acquire another home.
Any geologist would have told the builder that it was unsafe to build houses there.
I have to assume someone did tell them but the builder ignored them in favor of profits.
What an awful thing for this poor family. I'm really glad their neighbors seem to be so supportive.
Poor ????? That’s a probably $500,000 house (poor ??)
@@rompenoco1 poor is also used to indicate pity or sympathy…
@@rompenoco1 I agree, who cares about the neighbors being supportive; I'm wondering if their home owners insurance was supportive. I saw a similar thing like this happen in Kansas years ago to a bunch dumbasses who built some expensive houses on the side of a hill. A lot of rain fell and those house were washed right down the hill and destroyed, luckily no one was killed. The insurance companies refused to pay and the last I heard they were trying to sue the builder.
Do you mean by paying their taxes?
@@lashlarue59 I’m sure the people whose home is being destroyed both care about their insurance paying, AND the support of their neighbors…
Top three things to consider when building/buying a house on a hillside.
1. Effects of Erosion over time
2. Effects of erosion over time
3. Effects of erosion over time
Oh, is that what “location, location, location!” really means?
Affects
@@qw12asdf1 no. Effects
Yes, with earthquakes as well.
That retaining wall is an absolute joke
amazing neighbours and community. Very very lucky to be for anyone living in that community. Over here, barely a hello or smile!
The family is safe and still together. As devastating as losing their house is, they still have each other
I love how everyone sends this family well wishes, 7 years after this occurred. I think they've probably settled into another house, not on a hillside, by now!
And probably told their families to stop coming here illegally and staying in a family members house that may be near a hill to boot!
@@bad74maverick1 I like immigrants.
oh dang i didn't even look at the date lol. i though it was recent
@@kbanghart I do too. I like them much better when they're not illegal immigrants.
@@bad74maverick1 fortunately no one is illegal according to the Bible
Developers who relentlessly go on developing the hillsides must account for this. Deforestation adds to the woes.
While I do agree with you, Salt Lake has never had much forest.
Anything to make a buck. Sadly, that is what America has become. Always the almighty dollar!
Deforestation had nothing to do with this. Try visiting SLC and see what the climate and vegetation is like.
You plant trees in that climate and mother nature will take them back with a fire soon enough. It is very dry.
I don't know that area but here on Vancouver Island that is exactly how it happens. They'll cut down all the trees and build. It takes years but the roots eventually rot then when the ground is saturated you have slides.
@@kevindean1327 I used to live in the area. What they don't talk about is that all those houses are built above a rock quarry. The city is always after the tax revenue and should never zoned that land for development. They keep suing the neighboring city for more land up there but it was declared a wilderness area by the city that owns it.
You have not lost everything, when you are alive and unharmed, and so is everyone in your family. These are priceless blessings, but stuff is just stuff. It all can be replaced, but you and yours are not replaceable.
This is eight years ago this year, 2023. I hope the family was able to recover and rebuild from a nightmare no one deserves to go through.
I was born in Salt Lake City and raised in Orem. What many people who are developing/building homes in that area don't realize, is that the whole Salt Lake and Utah valleys all along the Wasatch front were covered by a huge lake during the Pleistocene. All that land at the base of the mountains they are building on is alluvial deposits, and very susceptible to liquefaction and movement in the event of earthquakes. Utah is due for a large one, and when it hits, what happened to this poor family will seem mild in comparison! All these developments and homes along the Wasatch front are built basically right on top of a fault!
Don't worry. Second Coming any day now.
That comes as a surprise to me. I had assumed that the entire area was basically granite and therefore stable. Always something to learn!
@@baltakatei Sure it is. We've been hearing this for centuries, but yep keep saying it often enough and maybe, just once, someone will get it right. It just won't be you.
More like developments,most people have no idea how the land was before buying the house
Younger Dryas megafloods!
This makes me think twice about houses in hills. Check records and history about landslides, fires, floods, etc. before you fall in love with a house. Every form of refuge has its price. I’m sorry for the loss. I hope the family found another shelter.
@@franksmith7419 But they actually are.
Have a geologist come out and look the land over too .. They know more about land, soil and formations more than any developer...
Looks like maybe some negligence on the part of whomever did the landscaping. That "hill" behind the house looks like a bunch of dirt that was piled up and sodded over after development of the surrounding area. I'm no expert on geology or a soil engineer, but that was just my first thought.
@@tiltingatentropy1215 If only that retaining wall had done it's job.
@@peterdarr383 Yeah, that retaining wall folded like a bad poker hand.
God bless that family. May all of us help.
My father always said when you buy a house son, make sure you are high and dry and that your garage and walks face the sun. Pretty good advice and I'm glad I listened.
My heart breaks for them, I am so glad their neighbors were there for them.
They had an advanced warning. Home insurance will pay to build a better house where landslides don't happen like in Key west Florida. Happy no one got injured. Ohhh wait they have hurricanes....
They came here illegally! Let's see if you heart breaks for some illegal if they kill one of your family.
@@Heart2HeartBooks . Exept for the native all Americans ancestors were immigrants .
Up next.
*_Man who built his home on the top of a volcano watches as his house burns down._*
You realize this happened nearly 10 years ago?
Never would've bought a home near an unstable hill like that. The smallest shift can send the whole thing coming down. Also, don't ever by a house in a flood plain. Save yourself the trouble.
Wise words especially if you can’t insure your home from it. That should have been a big single that something is wrong with this.
Won't have to worry soon 😜 just buy a house boat
@ Sarcastic Guy - I am highly doubtful that these poor people knew that their houses were built on an unstable Hill, or they certainly wouldn't have bought the homes. So how can you say that you "would never have bought a home near an unstable hill like that," if you didn't know that it was unstable!?!? You could/should have said, " I wouldn't have bought a home near a hill " there's no way any of the home owners would be able to know that their homes were built on unstable land; ground, unless they were a geologist or know about the land history, which I doubt would be accessible to the public....
@@AngelWhisper_7 You're kidding, right? You can tell it's unstable just by looking at it. There's zero grass. If you want to be naiive then that's your business. Also, flood plain and geo-instability information is accessible to everyone. Doesn't take more than a couple phone calls to figure it out.
@@AngelWhisper_7 Seeing how dramatic of a slope that was, it's safe to assume there is a potential for a landslide. People keep building houses in areas like this because they know many home buyers are too ignorant to assess the risk prior to purchase.
So sorry for you all! Losing your home is devastating!
That retaining wall that is seen desintegrating was not built to resist the retaining forces that it was containing. There did not seem to be any reinforcing steel.
This is why I say that hills, hillsides, cliffs, mountains, and seasides and other things of that nature are meant to be looked at and not lived on. Respect nature, people.
Been saying this for years. The most beautiful land in the USA is also the most dangerous, except tornado Kansas of course. The planning commissions are in bed with the criminal real-estate developers. Has been going on throughout Cali for 75 years. Then they get disaster relief from us tax payers living in the corn fields. Bullshit Predatory Capitalism!
@@ltwig476 Well, there IS something to be said for keeping the farm ground, farmable, and building where where you can't grow crops.
Or build in those places at your own risk, right? I mean, if you want to live on the beach fine, but if a storm wipes you out don't ask my tax dollars to bail you out. Delaware..
@@gizzyguzzi Exactly! Folks claim that they don't want government in their lives. Yet they want to consume junk food, drink and smoke and then the tax payers keep them alive in their last years. To be fair, we might say "knowingly took the risk" But then there goes government in their lives documenting and warning them.
Mountains last a pretty long time!
Terrible to lose your home and possessions. Glad the residents were not injured or killed.
imsure they hadnt made any mortgage payments for a year cause they new this would happen .....
They lost a free home. It was a house full of illegal immigrants staying on the taxpayers money
A great big wall would of helped.
Some of you guys commenting, really suck with such a close minded, ignorant attitude. We don't have any idea the details of their lives but someone was living in that home (legally) and it sounds like a person or persons just moved in as well (who are now legal.)
@@jess_jeff7549 "Multiple Families living there" is what dude said - - I hope they had the foresight to buy comprehensive insurance, you know, like they had in their home country.
I’m so sorry for this to happen to this family it is heartbreaking
Don't build or buy a house that backs on to a mountain that was cut out and engineered poorly. Where's the time lapse video???
Hell you herd the end his family after immigration if God is real i think he was saying something like stay out or something
In the top corner of the video click on that little gear looking thing. It is the settings button for UA-cam. After you do that scroll down to video playback speed. Now click - 2.0x's. Now click play video. There's your time lapse video
@@thesilentone4024 God wants all the Europeans to leave Utah?
I visited this site after it happened, when I still lived in SLC. Terrible thing, the whole entire hillside just slid off and eventually the house was rubble. It also damaged neighboring houses a little. People were spooked because the development on that hill had climbed up the bench so quickly. Throughout the valley, houses are higher than ever on the hillsides, and new plots are constantly being constructed in Utah (big families and all that). People in this subdivision were left wondering how stable the ground really was underneath these giant expensive new homes they’d just bought.
Add to that, they've been telling us Utahns for years that we are OVERDUE for a major earthquake on the Wasatch fault line.
Gosh that’s awful. I’m having a panic attack just thinking about being in their position right now.
@@DialogDontArgue We had that 6.something earthquake a year or so ago. Felt it and a couple of the aftershocks all the way up to Roy. Woke me up thinking we had a bunch of morons shaking our trailer, and was gearing up to go yell at them to knock it off or I was calling the cops! 🤣 Then I realized what it actually was and went back to sleep.
@@warriormaiden9829 haha that's funny. I was down here in salt lake, it it was centered in magna. It didn't wake me up but the pictures falling off of the shelves and breaking on the ground woke me up. That magnitude 6 definitely shook us up a little bit, and it did some damage to larger structures, but it is not a major earthquake I don't think, it hasn't happened yet.
The local government needs to establish building codes that require a geological survey to ensure lots are safe to build on.
California has special earthquake codes to ensure that new structures can withstand them. Even here in Florida where things have been shady in the past, we have tight building codes to ensure buildings can withstand hurricanes, won't flood in storms and won't exceed the weight that the ground beneath them can support. We have porous limestone bedrock with a lot of underground springs, so special preparations have to be made to ensure the ground will support heavy structures. If we got three feet of snow, many roofs would collapse as they aren't engineered for that kind of weight, but the buildings are bolted down to the foundation so they won't blow away! If California got a hurricane on the coast, the roofs would all blow off, but everything is built to withstand the things that are most likely to occur.
Every place should have specific codes to ensure buildings are safe against the perils that are common to the area.
Wonder if it was the same company that built on the Boise bench. Area looks nearly identical.
Wow, empathy... Sometimes it's hard to tell but I guess I'm not the only one who feels it.
Sadly this happens a lot. More then most people realize yet they still develop like crazy and put homes just about anywhere.
Indeed - they're building homes like there's no tomorrow on flood plains where I live. And I gather water-front homes are still sprouting up in Miami, which seems rather odd, given what's going to happen to much of that entire city fairly soon.
@@arthurpewtey Mind boggling isn't it? There are so many developments popping up around me with million dollar homes yet all you hear is how poor the area is and how people are moving away because there are no jobs. Something isn't right...
Something isn’t right is the great divide of incomes.
@@Jason1Pa Same in Texas. All these new homes are popping up that are $200,000+. The neighborhood I grew up in just had 8 new apartment complex's in the past 3 years. 5 more are being built right now. And my wife's parents trailer park just got bought out. The lot rent went from 300 a month to 800 in just 6 months. All the poor people are being pushed aside for gentrification.
@@UnderGroundMerlin I can't believe there are 200k houses still. Here in Western Pa. 200k will get you a small house in town with no yard or garage and parking on the street.. And since this whole housing market went crazy all homes went up between 80 to 100k in value. I'm sure it will come down at some point,but right now it's mind boggling.
His house doesn’t seem to be that far removed from danger but he still thinks only of the family. So selfless
no best believe he was with a realtor the next day to sell his house. At least I would.
He's just a whoosy Mormon. They aren't the sturdiest of folks.
@@SanchoGracie ikr. Fucking morons. We should round them all up and put them In camps where they can work until dead and then use them as fuel for heating. Go green.
i'm being heart broken and crying from something that happened 8 years ago
You can truly see how people really wanted to be as dramatic as possible for television as they cried.
I am amazed at the number of houses built in similar terrain. One heavy rainy season away from a mud slide.
Bad city planning. City should NOT have allowed them to build there. City's fault.
What about the people who build and rebuild next to a volcano? Stupid.
How is it the city's fault. Why rely on government when common sense should tell you that is not a suitable place to build a home?
@@mikespain8655 And the city should know that and have ordinances in place to prevent outside civilians that may not know the area into doing something they know is wreckless. A government's job is to proect its people. Well, at least in our town it does. We have flood areas. No one is allowed to build there. For good reason.
Ya, city zoning codes are hard and fast rules - until someone waives $$$ at them for a variance.
Then Waa la - Variance granted and permit approved.
Be smart and don't think the city, or the developer, or the builder really care because they will all have done their CYA. The buyer ends up living with it.
@@slatsgrobneck7515 And that makes it right? The city past every code inspection. It's a dumb place to build on the buyer's part. And the city should have a new mayor soon after this.
my brother had a home up in centerville his kitchen was five feet from the fault line and on top of that there is a lot of sand along those benches if you are on the valley floor you can see lake Bonneville beach lines on the mountains where the lake used to be.
Real compassionate Neighbors
As a neighbor I'd be wondering if my home was in jeopardy too
It is!
i live in utah (this is where it took place) and y’all have no idea how crazy it is here😭🤚 houses are built on sides on mountains to the point you can put a marble on your floor and it’ll roll all the way down to the other side of the room, cracks in foundations because of something as small as a jet going by or the train (constantly). houses are always getting destroyed here from things like this cause they’re always building houses in the worst places!
Why is it like that? Does Utah not have strict building codes?
@@adam1660 strict? Did you read his comment?
At least you have Poligamy
@@adam1660 more like they have zoning restrictions which basically limit construction to single-family homes but no longer enough stable land where people want to live to support only that kind of development. Instead of building upwards as population increases they're building outwards into unstable areas that wouldn't previously have been considered
@@onesob13 This makes sense. Building outward also pushes people onto land that should be left to the wild animals.
I would love to have neighbors like his, but in a different neighborhood for sure.
Anybody has any updates on this matter?
the pain of loosing a home is overwhelming, i pray everything worked out.
Not nearly as painful as tightening a home, though.
I pray that the extra "o" that was used in your statement won't be missed by a word that really needs it. L-O-S-I-N-G.
Dont get married and male
All their prayers Failed, and yet Christholes still pray for them. Bunch of Indoctrinated idiots. Prayers don't fix anything, but money does.
🟥 Prayers are what dumb people offer because they are too stupid to offer any helpful advice.
🟧 If God has a plan prayers are BS.
🟨 Asking for prayers then going to the doctor is cheating.
🟩 Prayer: How to convince yourself & others that your helping, when you're really doing nothing.
🟦 When prayers Fail, Terrorists play god.
🟪 Their stupid Spells don't work.
@@jamesjohnson8661 Coming from a HUGE jokester.... it took me 2 minutes to get the joke! 😂 I didn't notice their spelling so I was like, wtf? 🤣
When I studied Geology at Ohio State, we took a field trip to Southern Ohio, and there was a new road that kept having landslide issues because it was built on interbedded sandstone and shale. They knew of the geologic problems before they built it, but it went through the district of the Ohio Speaker of the House and he wanted it built. Arrogance cannot overcome bad geology.
U need the experts make the ruling. Unfortunately, people listen to geologists when only talking about minerals and oil. Natural disasters to many, will never happen to them. When it happened u start to look for basic geology textbooks. But too late
They need to pay for their stupidity,and selfish worthless greed!!! Speaker of the house is guilty,so is the engineers,surveyors,and everyone who went along with build unsafe structures!!! Payback time!;!
thank you
@@mieaab nice
@@timnavarrette3274 smalls your killing me
I live in a wonderful neighborhood where everyone cares about each other. It is truly a blessing from God to live in a good neighborhood.
And just like that I stumble onto the news channel I once watched years ago.
So sad these poor people had to go thru this. I hope they are doing well now
They are not poor. They look rich to me.
A family that’s able to afford something like that will do well.
What a traumatic experience
@@MrRusty-fm4gb yea ive seen what homeless people live like every day and this is like when a 6’4” guy cries that hes short
@@MrRusty-fm4gb not very smart comment, English is not my first language and even me understood what the poster meant.
The engineers, (PEs) who signed off on building those houses in that are, next to an unstable slope now own those houses. All them people need to do is get a lawyer. PEs are bonded, and insured against such things. Also, let's not forget about the building inspector who signed off on those houses. They are liable too.
Patch Gallier Hey! Can i sue you in retaliation? For thinking its all some one elses fault. Do you honestly think people want to hear your dribble?
Dribble to you, but it's the law. Home owners are protected by law against faulty building measures. A competent PE would have required a retaining wall after soil samples were done. Even before an act of god, soil samples would have shown the slope to be unstable. I don't expect an asshat like you to understand proper housing construction.
Patch Gallier that retainer wall looks more like street appeal than structural, the retainer walls meant to hold back a hillside, are usually reinforced concrete casings backed up with rip rap rocks.
Patch Gallier - That Wall was not a retaining wall. That was a decorative wall, which does not require any design. The adjacent property also is not required to be be geo-tested for stability as that hill wasn’t being retained. The fact that subsurface conditions changed which caused the hill to slide onto the house is immaterial. It would be an easy case to show this as an act of god. And no fault will be given to the civil engineer or designer or builder, or developer.
Patch Gallier A building inspector checks for code compliance. Please cite the building code on adjacent-land soil motility.
A friend of mine had a rude awakening when he was a teenager as his home slid down a hill in the middle of the night. No one was injured.
Heart breaker! Lesson here is never build next to a unstable mountain. How was this house construction ever permitted?
It's beautiful to see how kind the neighbors are.
I think it was more like fear than kindness. I bet they go to bed each night wondering if they are next.
This is definitely worthy of a lawsuit. Guarantee the developers knew the instability of that hill and decided it was more profitable to ignore it. There's absolutely zero deep-rooted vegetation holding that soil together. It almost looks like a dirt mound produced by construction
The homeowner has the responsibility of choosing a house that isn’t at the base of a hill. They could have paid to have the ground tested for stability or chosen a house that wasn’t next to a hill. The homeowner may not win a lawsuit as the hill wasn’t a hidden problem. You can see it.
Exactly!! You want a house at the bottom of a hill with no trees? This is what we get. Deforestation at its best.
@@mildredpierce4506 Local Governments fault they approved the building site , tax payers will end funding the law suit
@@mildredpierce4506 Most people are not experts on everything in existence. This why we have laws and regulations made **by** experts in respective fields to keep us safe. The hill is clearly unstable dirt with zero erosion control. The fact that local ordinances approved that build is either a sign of incompetency or corruption.
@@Sleipnirseight I can guarantee you I would know if I was buying a house anywhere near a Faultline/sinkhole/floodplain... etc. When buying a home, before closing, you hire a home inspection, and in addition do what is known as due diligence. This means looking for any liens or encumbrances applied to the home, or any other potential problems that may exist in or around the property. Geographically or otherwise. Upon closing, you assume all risk associated with said property. Any problems are now yours to bear. I suggest purchasing title insurance on top of your homeowners and use common sense when doing your due diligence. This issue is by no means something an "expert" needed to ferret out, unfortunately it falls squarely on the homeowner. It grinds my gears when the first thing someone does is cry out fuckin lawsuit over common sense bullshit. If you see it otherwise, my first suggestion to you would be that if you ever go to purchase a house, find someone smarter than you to help you do it. Only woe to them if something unforseen fucks up down the line, you would probably sue them. Sorry for the rant, but dammit, sometimes you gotta simply suck up your own mistakes. Buyer assumes all risk upon closing. Standard Contract. And you are why we have those.
Whomever issued a building permit for that lot without specifying some slope stabilization/remediation/drainage should be fired and his department sued.
The hill did not “swallow the house”. It simply pushed it away. Overly dramatic embellishments for ratings. I do feel for the home owners.
What's even more freaking unbelievable than that landslide are those caring neighbors. I hope the family got all the support they need to rebuild their home.
Having caring neighbors is unbelievable? You need to pick the neighborhood you live in better lol
@@Frickmook u are something else😐🙄
@@Frickmook 😂
It’s so heartwarming to see the sincere empathy and care shown by these precious neighbors. 💖💖
And this why geographers and geologists should be involved in building and town planning. I feel for these people, houses shouldn't ever have been build there. I hope they are all ok xxx
Over in Southeastern ohio they call the hills "slips" . I couldn't figure out what they were talking about until I saw a slip
(Landslide) that covered a highway, and it took them a year to remove all the dirt.
Where’s the time Lapse?
lee moore Don't ask and think outside the box. You must have a tin foil hat on. :)
Where's the time lapse???!!!! Is that all you're worried about?!! Cabbage head... The guy got into trouble. Became homeless at once... Just feel sorry for him, you-where-is-the-time-lapse...
No time lapse but also the 'retaining wall' is not a real retaining wall, its just a partial stoned wall that could be for a backyard. These people did not understand they purchased houses at the base of a large hill with no protection whatsoever from landslides.
It's in the title.
@@bvvvvb2610
LMAO @ cabbage head. 🤣
That family has the love and respect of their neighbors. Rarely seen in today's World. I wish them all the best
Well its like this in small cities
In big cities. People ignore their neibough 😂 they ignore them like strangers in metro stations 😂
That is not true at all lol. I live in a big city and I know all my neighbors. Y'all watch too much tv
I this it is seen all over this world, just not on the news. In florida every time there is a hurricane, the community comes together. The politicians and media portray a fake image
I get so sick of the "good ole days" comments. This attitude brought us Trump (MAGA), the most divisive political figure this country has ever seen.
It comes from ignorance (the good ole days were not that good) and entitlement (I deserve more and it's someone else's fault I don't have it).
@@brokenrecord3523 Brandon sure has done a great job unifying us
At Farmers we have seen a thing or two.. those were really great neighbors.. I wish we all cared about each other like that..
Tragic. Though most dramatic B-roll I’ve ever seen in a news segment. Windows shattering, siding collapsing; a captivating story to document as it unfolds!
This is so so and heartbreaking. I can’t imagine seeing your home or neighbors homes being destroyed. It is so beautiful too. What a lovely and comfortable home. Prayers for you. I am so sorry. Love to you. ❤️🌹❤️
How devastating, but the love and compassion from the neighbors is truly amazing. What a community to live in. Hope they had insurance and that it’ll cover at least material costs. The development company is liable here too, that home shouldn’t have been built there. And all the other ones are also in danger.
The ones up on the top of that hill probably weren't stable either 😳
welcome to utah money first.
Planting that hill with trees would have been a good ideea for preventing such a catastrophe.
It is sad to see people losing their livelihood like that...
The development company is liable for the owner's/renter's ignorance? HOW SO???
@@CooManTunes how exactly is that the fault of the owner/renter? Did they choose to build the house in an unstable environment?
Thank God they were able to get out of the home in time.
What kind of retaining walls are those?
This is my hometown I grew up there for 30 years. These homes are built on a gravel pit. Everyone who built their new this and was warned by citizens when they purchased land and Built Homes up there. My guess is because of that the insurance companies will not cover any of those homes up there because people were too pigheaded to listen and there was no preparation done on the Gravel Pit before building so I guess they live with it.
Although this is a heartbreaking thing to go through,it looks exactly like the house on the first Poltergeist
Exactly what I thought…god is in his holy temple!
Ha ha yes it does
Hill: Yeah, gimme one McMansion with a side of retaining wall.
Did the developer strip the hill of trees which resulted in the hill falling down after rains
I am glad the family got out safe. Not always easy to get out fast enough