Palos Verdes landslide keeps getting worse. Trump's golf course is a mile away. He wants gov to help [View all]

Palos Verdes landslide keeps getting worse. Residents’ anger boils

Keefer can only describe the last few weeks in their Rancho Palos Verdes neighborhood as a nightmare.

Cut off from vital utilities for more than a month while living on the active landslide whose limits have yet to be determined, Keefer and his wife have seen their lives upended by the escalating emergency in ways they never could have foreseen.


Beyond the closed roads, damaged homes and transformed landscapes caused by the devastating and ongoing land movement, they have found themselves struggling to safely store food and secure stable power while running repeatedly to the gas station for more ice and propane to keep their house, and lives, afloat.

“We have scrambled,” Keefer, 67, said. “Not only is it stressful emotionally, but it’s stressful financially.”

Amid the long list of challenges now accompanying daily life in their Portuguese Bend community, the predominant feelings among many residents are mounting anxiety and frustration — and even anger — over a lack of responsibility, answers or assistance from anyone in charge.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-22/palos-verdes-landslide-spreading-residents-frustrated-angry

On top of losing utilities, residents of 146 homes in the Portuguese Bend neighborhood — including Keefer and his wife — lost their landline internet connections when Cox Communications disconnected its service this month.

“It’s scary because it’s bigger than anything anyone imagined,” said Sallie Reeves, who has been trying to figure out how to safely remain on her Portuguese Bend property despite the lack of utilities — not to mention the massive fissure that runs through her home of more than 40 years. Before this winter, she and her husband had never seen any landslide damage on their property.


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Trump, in Rancho Palos Verdes, says his golf course is ‘very solid’ despite nearby landslide


Standing on his golf course less than a mile from the Rancho Palos Verdes landslide zone where hundreds of homes are without gas and electricity, former President Trump on Friday called his property “very solid” and called on the government to help the troubled city.

“It’s a very wealthy area, but you also have people living here that are elderly and have fixed incomes and have houses that are gonna be, ya know, shoved into the Pacific Ocean if something’s not done,” the former president said.

Trump spoke to reporters at a campaign-related news conference at his seaside Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles, which he bought from bankrupted developers in 2002 after the 18th hole slid into the ocean.