The owner of one of the multimillion-dollar mansions left teetering on a cliff in California fears it will collapse into the Pacific Ocean without careful inspection “every hour.” He said it would not happen.
Dramatic photos show Alan Ashavi’s property coming to an abrupt end past his backyard pool. The pool survived when several neighbors lost parts of their homes last year.
Ashavi said he has been building his dream home there for 12 years, and that it is now part of a sheer cliff after an atmospheric river triggered a landslide last month.
“Well, it’s nerve-wracking because we’re dealing with it every day and we’re coming here and checking on it every day, sometimes every hour,” Ashavi said.
“As long as it’s raining, I had it in the back of my mind to get involved in construction because I know it’s an El Niño year,” said the 66-year-old homeowner.
His home is just one of several in San Clemente at risk of collapse. The once-idyllic home overlooking the Pacific Ocean is at risk of being flooded by two powerful storms that have eroded the land.
In Dana Point, about a 10-minute drive north, three multimillion-dollar properties are about to fall off another cliff.
Even the San Onofre nuclear power plant is considered vulnerable to erosion and sea level rise.
Professors at the University of California, Irvine, are now worried that the situation will become even more dire as land erosion moves inland.
Climate change professor Kathleen Treceder told Reuters: “Atmospheric rivers come out of the ocean, rain on the hills here, and then the hills start to erode as well.”
“And not only is wave erosion happening here, but rainfall is causing erosion all the way inland.”
“There are a lot of multi-million dollar homes along this coast that will fall into the ocean,” Treseder said in a stark warning.
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