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People will build and live anywhere. We're building on the side of a cliff right now, known fault line. We bought an insurance rider just for that house, all they wanted was for us to have a soil engineer sign off on the foundation. We didn't pick the homesite or the plan, just building it, but you know who they'll sue if anything goes wrong.

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12 minutes ago, Fog said:

but you know who they'll sue if anything goes wrong.

Just to the right of this image is a rock quarry. They have been cutting into the mountain for over 100 years. The county still gave permission to build there. 
 

Who did they try to sue? The church to the left. Because they have a lot of money. They said excavation for the churches parking lot destabilized the hillside. 
 

Judge refused to hear the case. 
 

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Something similar happened when we were living in Scottsdale, Arizona in the early 1960s.

Folk has built homes in a dry river bed because, hey, it's the desert.

One year, it rained.

A lot.

River came back to its bed.

Houses washed away, but hey.

It's the desert.

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10 minutes ago, tous said:

Something similar happened when we were living in Scottsdale, Arizona in the early 1960s.

Folk has built homes in a dry river bed because, hey, it's the desert.

One year, it rained.

A lot.

River came back to its bed.

Houses washed away, but hey.

It's the desert.

Driving through the Southwest I became wary of the "dry washes" the highway crossed through.

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