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...were on a bluff over looking Laguna Beach. It was the classic setting: a full moon, a summer's night. I was looking out at the ocean and this feeling of eternity came over me. I thought if this moment could last forever, I wanted it to," Pereira says...
Technically, the landslides that hit Laguna Beach, Loma Mar and Rio Nido are known as debris flows. These are shallow slides that involve only the top layer of soil and usually occur during rainstorms. Debris flows are dangerous; they can run at speeds as high as 40 m.p.h., far faster than a person can run. Fortunately, most debris flows funnel through fairly narrow channels, and so the damage they inflict is limited. But Californians are at risk for a second type of slide, which the U.S. Geological Survey's David Howell refers to as a "bedrock landslide." Such deep-seated...
...never forget in my life the noise I heard," says Gary Lemonoff, a house painter who lives near Laguna Beach, Calif. "There was a roar, my trailer started shaking, and rocks and mud and boulders and tree limbs went rolling across my driveway." When the roar stopped, in the blackness of the night Lemonoff could hear his neighbors screaming. For a time, it seemed that all had survived, including a 9-month-old baby someone miraculously plucked from the mud. But as the sun rose, Lemonoff spotted a foot and forearm protruding from a pile of mud and rubble just...
What happened at Laguna Beach last week happened at Loma Mar and Rio Nido a couple of weeks before, as torrents of mud filled with debris smashed into dwellings with terrifying force. No one died in the Rio Nido slide, but homeowner Gary LaCombe feels lucky to be alive. He vividly remembers watching a tree's mammoth root ball, 12 ft. in diameter, hurtle toward his kitchen window, then veer off at the last minute, narrowly missing his house. Now LaCombe, along with his wife Phyllis and a few hundred of his neighbors, has been evacuated by county officials, barred...
...work on the issue of teenage pregnancy. Here is a woman who is powerful, famous and rich enough to sit back and do nothing. Instead, she chooses to help others. She might wear out, but she sure won't rust out. I say, "Go, Jane, go!" JAY BLAHNIK Laguna Beach, Calif...