US Landslide Causes Street To Collapse In San Diego

Reports have been coming in that a road in the neighbourhood of San Diego, in California has collapse opening up a 50-yard chasm in a four-lane road, damaging or destroying nine homes and forcing the evacuations of 111 houses.

Just the morning before city officials warned residents of four homes in the La Jolla neighbourhood not to sleep in them because the land might give way.

Lucky most of the residents in the area had gone o work so only a few were caught up in the collapse of the street and no one was hurt.

Holli Weld was walking her son to preschool when the street collapsed.
“It was sinking as I was walking by,” she said. “The street was sinking before our eyes.”

The cost of repairs are estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, said mayoral spokesman Fred Sainz. Mayor Jerry Sanders planned to declare a state of emergency in the area, making the city eligible for state and federal aid.

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