One by one, homes in Calif. subdivision sinking

One by one, homes in Calif. subdivision sinking





May 11, 2013


LAKEPORT, Calif. — Scott and Robin Spivey had a sinking
feeling that something was wrong with their home when cracks began
snaking across their walls in March. The cracks soon turned into gaping
fractures, and within two weeks their 600-square-foot garage broke from
the house and the entire property — manicured lawn and all — dropped 10
feet below the street. It wasn’t long before the houses on both sides
collapsed as the ground gave way in the Spivey’s neighborhood in Lake
County, about 100 miles north of San Francisco. ”We want to know what is
going on here,” said Scott Spivey, a former city building inspector who
had lived in his four-bedroom, Tudor-style dream home for 11
years. Eight homes are now abandoned and 10 more are under notice of
imminent evacuation as a hilltop with sweeping vistas of Clear Lake and
the Mount Konocti volcano swallows the subdivision built 30 years ago. MORE

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