It’s scary and tragic when collapses happen, but we’ve built a whole lot of homes on hills that are being slowly eroded by the sea.
When soil is wetted by intense rainfall and runoff, both the weight of the soil and how stress is distributed throughout it, changes. The soil itself becomes heavier and the water effectively lubricates individual grains, making it harder for them to stick together.Enough water and a weak point can present itself, which is when chunks of a bluff can give away.But there’s another sizable force that’s being exerted on cliffs all up and down our coast as well: the ocean.
“So maybe without the big rains, this slide might not have happened. But when you have this confluence of things happening all at once, this is where it gets really complicated and tricky,” said Juliette Finzi Hart with the Pathways Climate Institute.if we decide to armor our coastlines against rising seas, instead of letting them migrate inland.of California that includes just that.
If you’ve got a home perched on a hillside, you should call an expert if you think you might have a reason to worry.
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