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.
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.
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 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!
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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. 🙏🏼☝🏼
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...
........" Love thy neighbor as thyself ", saith JESUS CHRIST the Lord, of his Heavenly Father. Ref: LEVITICUS 19:18, MARK 12:31, JAMES 2:8. Amen. This is not of the flesh, but of THE SPIRIT OF GOD. THINK ON THESE THINGS.
@@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*
@@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
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 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
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.
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.
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....
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.
@@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!
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.
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!!!
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.
@@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
Whomever issued a building permit for that lot without specifying some slope stabilization/remediation/drainage should be fired and his department sued.
@@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
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.
@@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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!!”
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
@ 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.
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....
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.
@@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.
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!
@@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.
@@dimitriosfotopoulos3689This comment is so... needlessly mean. He's got, what, one like? Was his original comment so important you really felt the need to take him down a peg?
@@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 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.
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!
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.
In the top corner of the video click on that little gear looking thing. It is the settings button for TH-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
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...
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
@@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
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.
@@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.
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!;!
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. ❤️🌹❤️
Unfortunately, the irregular terrain on that entire slope - even the area not failing in this instance - is clear evidence of long-term instability here. And a simple vertical "retaining wall" such as this is but a cosmetic approach with almost no strength to hold back anything. The homes probably should never have been built in the first place - but of course, if a local government tries blocking anything like this, they get sued for violating the "property rights" of the developer.
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.
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...
Freaking Utahens are so genuinely nice people. My wife and inlaws are from Midvale Utah and are very kind, loving people. And my mother inlaw is just a bundle of love compacted into a 4ft 8in body. im not surprised to see them all gather in tears for this family. Its who Utahens are
I'm an Aussie that traveled all over the USA a few years ago. Utah was a surprise to us. It was a really beautiful place and the people just awesome. Very sad to see this but at the same time it's really good no one hurt.
Ugh I wanted to visit Australia but no way in hell now. That country is a dictatorship. Covid camps, drones flying around looking for unmasked people, government officials attacking and mocking unvaccinated people....vaccine ID's....You couldn't PAY me to visit that Authoritarian country now lol
If Awe is the name of a restaurant.....you can be "at Awe". If awe is a state of emotion......you can only be "in awe". At least you didn't mess up "loose", "supposebly", or "taken back".
Engineers should take the blame on this one. The city planning that allowed this site to be developed. The city engineers. The inspection from city. Not that I am a big realtor fan,but they aren’t even close to the top of the list for blame here
@@chasjacks9378 Maybe you should re read my reply. The engineering shouldn’t have let the building happen in the first place. Shouldn’t have even been allowed to be built at that site. Thus the realtor wouldn’t be able to sell. Get it?
@@chasjacks9378 Man, when did realtors become f**king mind reader and could tell future and know that the hillside would come down?? Their job is to sell house nor design and build them
@@chucks_88 When they build them on former dump sites filled with nuclear waste or regular garbage. and flood zones that are readily accessible records to prove that. It is called "due diligence." Instead they buy cheap land they is not suited for family housing. The old, "I just sell the stuff and make money doesn't work. It is the real estate DEVELOPER who buys the crap land and develops it. that is why they get the blame. How was I supposed to know your neighborhood would flood? I'm not a mind reader. Because you build it on a flood plain asshole.
@@chasjacks9378 The city,or county or municipalities should not have allowed the housing to be built in the first place. If like you say,waste site.....etc. if it is unsafe it should not be allowed to be built on. When you see hilltop or cliff top sites,anything built on them have to be passed by a certified engineer. Plans drawn up. Approval granted and stamped by another city or municipal engineer. Then rigorous inspections done during the build. Yet you think the whole blame lies on the real estate agent. Seriously? Ever thought that maybe the client should also do some due diligence? Buy a house by a river? Might flood ? No really? Buy a house oceanfront. Might flood,might be affected by typhoon,wind storms? No really? Buy a house by a volcano. Might erupt. No really? Yes,it’s all the real estate agents fault. What a dolt.
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!
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.
Even if the neighbours weren’t affected, how will they sell their home now knowing that their houses are also in danger with that hill overlooking their properties as well…..
THAT'S A PERFECT LAWSUIT. (Too bad most judges take bribes!) It's crazy how society has NORMALIZED selling faulty crap. EVERYONE CAN SEE that Big Soda LIE when they still call it a 2-liter bottle, cuz now there's 4 inches of EMPTY AIR at the top, unlike 30 years ago, ya liars. ALL THAT EXTRA PLASTIC you say you don't need, is criminal negligence! HOW BAD ARE APPLE'S "ROLLS ROYCE" PRODUCTS? One of my $1200 Macbook "PROs'.....CRASHED (software) in the APPLE STORE BEFORE I HAD LEFT THE BUILDING!!! MINUTES AFTER BUYING IT NEW!! ALL APple products I owned were BUILT ILLEGALLY, but no cop will do their one job cuz they work fo rthe rich.
@@whatsappscambot1802 I wish I could type 5 billion words, to give you a FRACTION of the details ! FACT: APPLE is a criminal enterprise TOP TO BOTTOM. FACT: They STOLE their OS from IBM....AND STOLE their name from....THE BEATLES! (Jobs even admitted it, cuz the Beatles were his fave band. That doesn't mean you can STEAL THE NAME of their record company, film company,etc! APPLE!!) (YOKO and PAUL sued, and Apple lost. THE AGREEMENT was that APPLE would stay out of the MUSIC biz....and the BEATLES' APPLE corporation would stay out of the COMPUTER BIZ. Skeevy Jobs IMMEDIATELY went back to work on the iPOD and iTunes!!! ) I have MILLIONS of these. I EVEN WENT TO JAIL and was tortured, starved etc, BECAUSE APPLE MAKE FRAUDULENT PRODUCTS: My NEW Macbook PRO crashed, and corrupted my calendar.....so I MISSED a routine, nothing-court date but that was all it took to jail and do nazi shit to me! TESSA MAJORS WAS MURDERED cuz of APPLE. APPLE KILLED SO MANY CUSTOMERS, that the Atty Generals of NUMEROUS STATES (like Eric Schneiderman of NY) MET WITH APPLE to beg them to STOP MURDERING THEIR CUSTOMERS. APPLE SAID "WE'RE THE RICHEST PPL IN HISTORY! SUCK MY DICK! " andonly 100% of AG's sucked Apple's dick. (THE AGs SAID "IF YOU JUST INSTALL KILLSWITCHES....NO APPLE CUSTOMER WILL EVER BE MUGGED OR KILLED AGAIN!" (the idea is that if your expensive iPhone is stolen, you call a number and they "brick" the phone, so it's WORTHLESS. APPLE refused, bc they MAKE MORE MONEY IF THEIR CUSTOMERS ARE MUGGED OR KILLED!!!!!!) I have MILLIONS of these. I've OWNED 5 MACBOOK "PROs". ALL 5 were COMPLETE GARBAGE IN EVERY WAY. (it's 99% WORSE than you think.) PLUS, every 24 hours, ALL "Pros" INTRODUCED A NEW "GLITCH". Get it? Each day it introduces new glitches...like it's PROGRAMMED TO. Cuz APPLE cannot become the RICHEST company of all time....unless they cheat and rob. And we know the KKKOps and LEOs all work for....THE RICH~! (STeve Jobs didn't even have a license plate on his car!!! CUZ HE KNEW all kops SERVE THE RICH!)
CORRECTION: If you are killed, you likely are NOT buying more APPLE merch. but most of the "Apple-picking" victims were NOT KILLED. (It's so common, COPS NAMED IT!! )
@@jonbongjovi1869 Seeing how much you blow shit way out of proportion, you could be a CNN anchor. I hope you finally learned your lesson after your 5th imaginary Macbook Pro. You seem like the kind of person who would repeatedly burn yourself with the hot end of your meth pipe and get angry at the shop that sold it to you.
Very sad. Not the fault of the family for moving into a house that was built on an unstable hillside to begin with. Some places just should not be developed on.
It wasn’t just this home. This whole neighborhood ended up down the mountain. A lot of families lost their homes, It was very sad. The scar on the mountain is still there. As some commentators have stated, the developers knew about the problem before they built and they did. It was unethical for them to build there.
Knowledge is a hard thing to prove. Unethical, yes (if they knew). Liable? No. Unfortunately not. The city should have had to approve the plans for permitting. Who is ultimately at fault?
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).
This brought tears to my eyes. I hope the owner is able to sue the builders for building in unstable territory. Before building I believe the ground has to be stabilized for at least two years
The presence of the rear-facing landmass was open and notorious, and the buyer had every opportunity to study geotechnical reports. The actual solution, for those that want such homes, is to seek a price reduction, and an extremely specific insurance policy that names the risk at issue.
the people BUILDING the neighborhood dont give a fuck. Easy money for them. the people BUYING the houses have no common sense... hope they were smart enough to get really good insurance.
I’ve spent hundreds of dollars on pillows over the past 20 or so years before I realized that it’s not the pillows I’ve tried that haven’t worked, it’s my neck! Indeed, particularly if you’ve had a neck injury, there is no perfect pillow. I thought I needed a very soft pillow because of my particular injury, but in the end, after years of pillow hunting, I’ve discovered what my neck actually needed was a very firm pillow. As you said, it’s a totally individualized venture when it comes to the so called “perfect” pillow.
Oh Boy I'm already ahead of the game I had made a decision 10 yrs ago I would never rent or buy a home near a hill such as the one we just witness taking this poor guys home! All the California homes we looked at were a classic beautiful home with a hill for a back yard and having a friend who had a close call like this sealed the deal! Now I just hope the ground beneath me doesn't fall under my feet like such as a sink hole! =)
There are hills and there are hills. Lived most of my life in a city built on 7 hills and 20 miles from the steepest street in the world, all built on rock and no landslides. Now I live 2 metres above sea level and have something to worry about.
My grandmother, great-aunt and great-uncle lived in Guerneville, CA; a logging town and vacation resort on a river north of San Francisco. It had a lot of hills and heavy rain and I can't even count how many houses have slid down hills, sometimes smashing into houses below. Some went into the river. Also, hillside roads have broken apart, which means even if you get to keep your house you might not be able to get to it. Maybe they could reach the houses by climbing up muddy hills, but forget about either driving up there or getting a stranded car out of there for God knows how long. Could it be never? :(
The home 🏡 owner is alive, and that's a blessing 🙌. The moment you died is over, they still have a chance to see the day. It's very unpleasant to lose your belongings but at least they alive.
Those watching this that have never been to Utah must understand this insanity building method is quite common throughout Utah. Homes are built at the foot of and in some cases, ON TOP of hills that are guaranteed to landslide sometime within a century. It NEVER ceases to amaze me why builders would build there and moreso, why homebuyers would purchase those properties.
The entire neighborhood they stuck on top of the 'point of the mountain' sand bar is insane. The views are amazing but you are literally perched on top of a giant sandy hill.
This film is cut too short. I live on the very top of the East Yorkshire Wolds, England and I feel so safe from so many things. My viewing of this film is some three years after the event,but I am so gutted for these people. I'm so sorry this happened. I'm so sorry that every day awful things happen to people whom don't deserve these things to happen to them. Life would not be so valuable if shit didn't matter. My tears are not selfish... However,they are plentiful. ✌️💚👊
This is exactly why I have never liked them building on the side of the Mountains. Yesterday their was a brush fire just south of there. The developers always get away with this and then run. The rich insist on living there and then want sympathy for this. First comes the fire, then the rain and then the mud slides.
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.
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.
I don't feel bad, they chose to buy a house in an area surrounded by large hills and even built retaining walls signifying a potential issue. Risk vs reward. Insurance shouldn't cover this either seeing as how they built the house knowing this could happen.
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. 😢🙏🏾
True. I agree. Such kind hearted neighbors.
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... 😭
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
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
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
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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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”🙄🙄
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 😅
........" Love thy neighbor as thyself ", saith JESUS CHRIST the Lord, of his Heavenly Father. Ref: LEVITICUS 19:18, MARK 12:31, JAMES 2:8. Amen. This is not of the flesh, but of THE SPIRIT OF GOD. THINK ON THESE THINGS.
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
@@bigtrout I say the same thing all the time. Never really thought about it, that I can save my breath and only say one word. I
" 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.
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
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?
*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
Lol
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Whomever issued a building permit for that lot without specifying some slope stabilization/remediation/drainage should be fired and his department sued.
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
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?
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…
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
That is not a retaining wall, it is a retaining facade.
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.
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?
I am amazed at the number of houses built in similar terrain. One heavy rainy season away from a mud slide.
Thankful that nobody got hurt, and I hope for those displaced families a speedy return to normalcy.
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.
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.
@@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!
@@dimitriosfotopoulos3689This comment is so... needlessly mean. He's got, what, one like? Was his original comment so important you really felt the need to take him down a peg?
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 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.
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!
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 TH-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?
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.
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? 🤣
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.
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.
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.
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. 🤣
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.
Thats a 3 ft retaining wall holing up thousands of tons of dirt... the contractor needs to go to prison for this.
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.
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
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. ❤️🌹❤️
Unfortunately, the irregular terrain on that entire slope - even the area not failing in this instance - is clear evidence of long-term instability here. And a simple vertical "retaining wall" such as this is but a cosmetic approach with almost no strength to hold back anything. The homes probably should never have been built in the first place - but of course, if a local government tries blocking anything like this, they get sued for violating the "property rights" of the developer.
As a neighbor I'd be wondering if my home was in jeopardy too
It is!
It’s so heartwarming to see the sincere empathy and care shown by these precious neighbors. 💖💖
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
The hill did not “swallow the house”. It simply pushed it away. Overly dramatic embellishments for ratings. I do feel for the home owners.
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?
Freaking Utahens are so genuinely nice people. My wife and inlaws are from Midvale Utah and are very kind, loving people. And my mother inlaw is just a bundle of love compacted into a 4ft 8in body.
im not surprised to see them all gather in tears for this family. Its who Utahens are
I'm an Aussie that traveled all over the USA a few years ago. Utah was a surprise to us. It was a really beautiful place and the people just awesome. Very sad to see this but at the same time it's really good no one hurt.
Ugh I wanted to visit Australia but no way in hell now. That country is a dictatorship. Covid camps, drones flying around looking for unmasked people, government officials attacking and mocking unvaccinated people....vaccine ID's....You couldn't PAY me to visit that Authoritarian country now lol
Love when nature puts humans in their place.
I work in development, who the hell approved this project. Somebody got their palms greased.
It's sad this happened to this family. I will say this about Utahan's, they are some of the kindest people you will ever meet.
I am glad the family got out safe. Not always easy to get out fast enough
Build your house next to a volcano, Don't complain when there is lava in the living room.
I’m just in awe at how close & caring the neighbors are ❤️ it
Edited: grammatical errors of a 3rd grader
They
just did that for the camera time
If Awe is the name of a restaurant.....you can be "at Awe".
If awe is a state of emotion......you can only be "in awe".
At least you didn't mess up "loose", "supposebly", or "taken back".
@@prun8893 good eye. I’m sure I was halfass paying attention which I typed that 😬
Trump has the mentality of a 5th grader, so don't feel so bad.
Sue the crap out of the engineers that allowed a housing complex to be built there.
Engineers should take the blame on this one. The city planning that allowed this site to be developed. The city engineers. The inspection from city. Not that I am a big realtor fan,but they aren’t even close to the top of the list for blame here
Bull, the realtors knew also. This is why city councils are packed by people who make their money in real estate and real estate development.
@@chasjacks9378
Maybe you should re read my reply. The engineering shouldn’t have let the building happen in the first place. Shouldn’t have even been allowed to be built at that site. Thus the realtor wouldn’t be able to sell. Get it?
@@chasjacks9378 Man, when did realtors become f**king mind reader and could tell future and know that the hillside would come down?? Their job is to sell house nor design and build them
@@chucks_88 When they build them on former dump sites filled with nuclear waste or regular garbage. and flood zones that are readily accessible records to prove that. It is called "due diligence." Instead they buy cheap land they is not suited for family housing. The old, "I just sell the stuff and make money doesn't work. It is the real estate DEVELOPER who buys the crap land and develops it. that is why they get the blame. How was I supposed to know your neighborhood would flood? I'm not a mind reader. Because you build it on a flood plain asshole.
@@chasjacks9378
The city,or county or municipalities should not have allowed the housing to be built in the first place. If like you say,waste site.....etc. if it is unsafe it should not be allowed to be built on. When you see hilltop or cliff top sites,anything built on them have to be passed by a certified engineer. Plans drawn up. Approval granted and stamped by another city or municipal engineer. Then rigorous inspections done during the build. Yet you think the whole blame lies on the real estate agent. Seriously? Ever thought that maybe the client should also do some due diligence? Buy a house by a river? Might flood ? No really? Buy a house oceanfront. Might flood,might be affected by typhoon,wind storms? No really? Buy a house by a volcano. Might erupt. No really?
Yes,it’s all the real estate agents fault. What a dolt.
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!
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.
Even if the neighbours weren’t affected, how will they sell their home now knowing that their houses are also in danger with that hill overlooking their properties as well…..
THAT'S A PERFECT LAWSUIT. (Too bad most judges take bribes!)
It's crazy how society has NORMALIZED selling faulty crap.
EVERYONE CAN SEE that Big Soda LIE when they still call it a 2-liter bottle, cuz now there's 4 inches of EMPTY AIR at the top, unlike 30 years ago, ya liars. ALL THAT EXTRA PLASTIC you say you don't need, is criminal negligence!
HOW BAD ARE APPLE'S "ROLLS ROYCE" PRODUCTS?
One of my $1200 Macbook "PROs'.....CRASHED (software) in the APPLE STORE BEFORE I HAD LEFT THE BUILDING!!! MINUTES AFTER BUYING IT NEW!!
ALL APple products I owned were BUILT ILLEGALLY, but no cop will do their one job cuz they work fo rthe rich.
@@jonbongjovi1869 Built illegally? I don't buy Apple's shit, so can you elaborate?
@@whatsappscambot1802 I wish I could type 5 billion words, to give you a FRACTION of the details !
FACT:
APPLE is a criminal enterprise TOP TO BOTTOM.
FACT:
They STOLE their OS from IBM....AND STOLE their name from....THE BEATLES!
(Jobs even admitted it, cuz the Beatles were his fave band. That doesn't mean you can STEAL THE NAME of their record company, film company,etc! APPLE!!)
(YOKO and PAUL sued, and Apple lost. THE AGREEMENT was that APPLE would stay out of the MUSIC biz....and the BEATLES' APPLE corporation would stay out of the COMPUTER BIZ. Skeevy Jobs IMMEDIATELY went back to work on the iPOD and iTunes!!! )
I have MILLIONS of these.
I EVEN WENT TO JAIL and was tortured, starved etc, BECAUSE APPLE MAKE FRAUDULENT PRODUCTS:
My NEW Macbook PRO crashed, and corrupted my calendar.....so I MISSED a routine, nothing-court date but that was all it took to jail and do nazi shit to me!
TESSA MAJORS WAS MURDERED cuz of APPLE.
APPLE KILLED SO MANY CUSTOMERS, that the Atty Generals of NUMEROUS STATES (like Eric Schneiderman of NY) MET WITH APPLE to beg them to STOP MURDERING THEIR CUSTOMERS.
APPLE SAID "WE'RE THE RICHEST PPL IN HISTORY! SUCK MY DICK! " andonly 100% of AG's sucked Apple's dick.
(THE AGs SAID "IF YOU JUST INSTALL KILLSWITCHES....NO APPLE CUSTOMER WILL EVER BE MUGGED OR KILLED AGAIN!" (the idea is that if your expensive iPhone is stolen, you call a number and they "brick" the phone, so it's WORTHLESS. APPLE refused, bc they MAKE MORE MONEY IF THEIR CUSTOMERS ARE MUGGED OR KILLED!!!!!!)
I have MILLIONS of these.
I've OWNED 5 MACBOOK "PROs".
ALL 5 were COMPLETE GARBAGE IN EVERY WAY.
(it's 99% WORSE than you think.)
PLUS, every 24 hours, ALL "Pros" INTRODUCED A NEW "GLITCH".
Get it?
Each day it introduces new glitches...like it's PROGRAMMED TO.
Cuz APPLE cannot become the RICHEST company of all time....unless they cheat and rob.
And we know the KKKOps and LEOs all work for....THE RICH~!
(STeve Jobs didn't even have a license plate on his car!!! CUZ HE KNEW all kops SERVE THE RICH!)
CORRECTION: If you are killed, you likely are NOT buying more APPLE merch.
but most of the "Apple-picking" victims were NOT KILLED.
(It's so common, COPS NAMED IT!! )
@@jonbongjovi1869 Seeing how much you blow shit way out of proportion, you could be a CNN anchor. I hope you finally learned your lesson after your 5th imaginary Macbook Pro. You seem like the kind of person who would repeatedly burn yourself with the hot end of your meth pipe and get angry at the shop that sold it to you.
If one could "time-lapse" our world we would discover how fluid it actually is.
Gender fluid
@@kbanghartbro no one said anythings about that 😑
@@callygamer yes
@@kbanghart pretty sure you could time lapse men over the next thousand years, and they'd all have a penis..
Very sad. Not the fault of the family for moving into a house that was built on an unstable hillside to begin with. Some places just should not be developed on.
It wasn’t just this home. This whole neighborhood ended up down the mountain. A lot of families lost their homes, It was very sad. The scar on the mountain is still there. As some commentators have stated, the developers knew about the problem before they built and they did. It was unethical for them to build there.
Knowledge is a hard thing to prove. Unethical, yes (if they knew). Liable? No. Unfortunately not. The city should have had to approve the plans for permitting. Who is ultimately at fault?
Good
When did that happen? I drove in this neighbourhood going to the Wild Rose Downhill park last summer. Everything was still in place.
@@kennonshupe4035 As the description the video was posted in 2014.
@@kennonshupe4035 it was in 2014. It was sad to see so many people loose their homes.
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
This brought tears to my eyes. I hope the owner is able to sue the builders for building in unstable territory. Before building I believe the ground has to be stabilized for at least two years
I think he has a good lawsuit unless the developer left the country or died.
The presence of the rear-facing landmass was open and notorious, and the buyer had every opportunity to study geotechnical reports. The actual solution, for those that want such homes, is to seek a price reduction, and an extremely specific insurance policy that names the risk at issue.
Words can't express how happy this made me
THIS is the real America. People want normal, finally get it and have to deal with this? So nice to see how caring their neighbors are.
yes a bunch of stupid people plant trees land slide can be prevented in 89% simple, filling only make you wick and out there are many wolf
@@puppshades2554 can you speak English bruh? Not sure what the hell you just said
@@CMGDMovies sorry , just plant trees loll
@@CMGDMovies lmao...yeah
Some things really just aren't right. Seems like more often than not, bad things happen to good people. Unfair really.
It's unfair someone decided to build a house right in front of a huge sloped hill, and other people decided to move into this house?
Be a bad person, no rewards in being good. Just go to church and say sorry all is forgiven
Who said they were good people?
@@asaptherm thats putrid advice
Who builds a house so close a steep hill like that? A landslide was inevitable.
the people BUILDING the neighborhood dont give a fuck. Easy money for them. the people BUYING the houses have no common sense... hope they were smart enough to get really good insurance.
There are centuries old homes all over the world, that exist on, or under hills that make that one look flat.
This will always happen when MONEY rules the world. They only think about MONEY and MONEY while kicking common sense out the window.
The valley's gotten so crowded people will build anywhere.
I’ve spent hundreds of dollars on pillows over the past 20 or so years before I realized that it’s not the pillows I’ve tried that haven’t worked, it’s my neck! Indeed, particularly if you’ve had a neck injury, there is no perfect pillow. I thought I needed a very soft pillow because of my particular injury, but in the end, after years of pillow hunting, I’ve discovered what my neck actually needed was a very firm pillow. As you said, it’s a totally individualized venture when it comes to the so called “perfect” pillow.
Oh Boy I'm already ahead of the game I had made a decision 10 yrs ago I would never rent or buy a home near a hill such as the one we just witness taking this poor guys home! All the California homes we looked at were a classic beautiful home with a hill for a back yard and having a friend who had a close call like this sealed the deal! Now I just hope the ground beneath me doesn't fall under my feet like such as a sink hole! =)
There are hills and there are hills. Lived most of my life in a city built on 7 hills and 20 miles from the steepest street in the world, all built on rock and no landslides. Now I live 2 metres above sea level and have something to worry about.
You always look on the bright side don't you
My grandmother, great-aunt and great-uncle lived in Guerneville, CA; a logging town and vacation resort on a river north of San Francisco. It had a lot of hills and heavy rain and I can't even count how many houses have slid down hills, sometimes smashing into houses below. Some went into the river. Also, hillside roads have broken apart, which means even if you get to keep your house you might not be able to get to it. Maybe they could reach the houses by climbing up muddy hills, but forget about either driving up there or getting a stranded car out of there for God knows how long. Could it be never? :(
The home 🏡 owner is alive, and that's a blessing 🙌. The moment you died is over, they still have a chance to see the day. It's very unpleasant to lose your belongings but at least they alive.
Those watching this that have never been to Utah must understand this insanity building method is quite common throughout Utah. Homes are built at the foot of and in some cases, ON TOP of hills that are guaranteed to landslide sometime within a century. It NEVER ceases to amaze me why builders would build there and moreso, why homebuyers would purchase those properties.
Well the comedian Ron White said it perfectly. YOU CAN"T FIX STUPID!
But the views are spectacular, while they last..
is there no way to stabilize the ground?
@wyomarine Good to know. You would think that someone would have been required to inform the homebuilders/buyers of this fact. Yikes.
The entire neighborhood they stuck on top of the 'point of the mountain' sand bar is insane. The views are amazing but you are literally perched on top of a giant sandy hill.
From what I see of their emotional stability I can tell you these folks would not have liked it in Vietnam at all! Best of luck!
This film is cut too short.
I live on the very top of the East Yorkshire Wolds, England and I feel so safe from so many things. My viewing of this film is some three years after the event,but I am so gutted for these people. I'm so sorry this happened. I'm so sorry that every day awful things happen to people whom don't deserve these things to happen to them.
Life would not be so valuable if shit didn't matter. My tears are not selfish... However,they are plentiful. ✌️💚👊
Sad to say, but 'ground liquefication' is not covered by your Homeowners insurance.
Homeowner 6 months prior:
Honey, I canceled that landslide insurance that we don’t need...
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.
That’s terrible, it looked like a nice house and they finally had a place in America to be together. It’s just horrible
cheap vinyl siding and plastic window frames. not a nice house
@@swaggytoast5242 uh...what house are you talking about? That house was stucco and stone and probably more than you could afford.
That house was a cheap pos that's why they built it next to a landfill.
No subdivision built houses have been worth a fuck since the 1970s
This is exactly why I have never liked them building on the side of the Mountains. Yesterday their was a brush fire just south of there. The developers always get away with this and then run. The rich insist on living there and then want sympathy for this. First comes the fire, then the rain and then the mud slides.
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.
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.
Geologists would have warned the builders that this was a potential slide area.
The people in this town seem so nice! Kinda makes me wanna move there
So very sad. My heart really goes out to them.
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 don't feel bad, they chose to buy a house in an area surrounded by large hills and even built retaining walls signifying a potential issue.
Risk vs reward. Insurance shouldn't cover this either seeing as how they built the house knowing this could happen.