bretto said:It is very unfortunate that this is all happening to these folks but I was just looking at some pics of the inside of the dwelling and they have a lot of good stuff in them still. Why aren't they stripping these houses out? Makes no sense to just let all the cabinets, windows, furnace, etc. just get plowed over with mud and rocks.
Brett
I think this everytime I look up on the mountain...When the big quake hits and they all come sliding down....Can't say I will feel too sorry for them...Just like the people who build in a flood plain.Col Mustard said:What bonehead in the planning commision approved the construction in the first place? I saw this happening while working out there last year. I was thinking more of the boulders rushing down the mountain crashing into the homes but that just happened yesterday in Provo Canyon. It's sad to see people lose their homes. It's the builders on up that I question. In South Jordan, there was an attempt recently to have certain land along the banks of the Jordan river removed from the SEMA flood area. The reason? So they could build houses there. The land is currently so wet that the golf course can't even grow trees there. And once it is removed from the list and it gets flooded, no help from SEMA will be available. Anything for a dollar.
Sorry for the rant. It just hit a nerve with me.
You live in Odgen. Im sure you have seen that house under the U in Uinta...at the mouth of the canyon. Talk to any Geologist and they will tell you....We have to major things going against us in Utah. One. we live on a lake bed. Two we live in a MAJOR earthquake area. Lake beds have a tendancy to liquify when there is a major earthquake and well...There are lots of houses that are built on pretty steep hillsides.Webby said:I laughed at the people in Riverdale that built those new homes near the weber river. Some of the houses you can tell the area had been flooded several times before building .... so why build there!?! Oh know, because no one told them no.
