These Buildings Look as Though They'll Eventually Collapse, and It Probably Will
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Recently, in Norway (8) and Alaska (1) nine houses collapsed because they were partially built on a river.
That brown building is next and the residents better start packing their stuff and try to sell their apartments (if anyone dares to buy them).
Eight houses in Norway, damn.
I took this photo today in Portugal and while those buildings have been built for 30 or 50 years (I don't know, just a hunch), sooner or later they will fall (either by nature itself or some nutjob destroys the support at the bottom), too. I don't know how that was allowed, especially since it goes downhill (literally).
It genuinely looks really dangerous and unsafe.
Close-up:
There's this thing called Murphy's Law which means "If it can happen, it will happen." (whether it's a good or a bad thing).
There are many seaside homes in the uk that have been claimed from landslides and unfortunately many more will follow.
Houses often fall into the sea as our cliffs erode. Some people are devastated when it happens but others will go to extraordinary lengths to stop it. I lived in Eastbourne when the Belle Tout Lighthouse was moved 17M inland to prevent exactly that. Sadly by the time we left that area it was almost at the edge again....
www.ice.org.uk/what-is-civil-engineering/what-do-civil-engineers-do/moving-the-belle-tout-lighthouse
Sooo sad,people want to live near the sea,not in it!
I remember seeing reports of the spurn point in Yorkshire where the houses were falling into the sea & thinking this is going to end badly..
Where was the photo taken in Portugal?
We are currently holidaying in Albuferia...
janphoenix51 Santarem, Abrantes.
I wish the residents of those buildings would sell their apartments and move somewhere else safe because that's a tragedy waiting to happen.
If they were told that, they'd say "I've lived here for the last 50 years and there's been no problems." so have it their way.
When you look at statistics regarding rising sea levels it seems like the rise per year is accelerating so losing property to rising water levels either coastline or rivers is going to get much worse. You see some maps of what the UK will look like it just becomes a series of fragmented islands. Some countries will pretty much disappear. I'm on the edge of an area which is likely the first to go in England and my area perhaps will be under water sometime in the 2100s. I think for a while Yeovil will be close to the new coastline same as Taunton as the area disappearing is as below. Burnham On Sea and Weston Super Mare will disappear. That's why it's so important to start policies for reducing our population and stop immigration as there are large sections of the UK and Ireland as well the European coastline especially countries like the Netherlands that are going to massively reduce in size. We need to stop building in vulnerable areas too. We need to have long term policies for issues we know are happening. The predicted rise below is only 2050 which isn't that far away.
BonzoBanana The U.K. being an island and somewhat far from other countries/land may be an issue if a part or parts were to be swiped by the river.
"We need to stop building in vulnerable areas too."
I agree and seeing apartment buildings everywhere (in London, for example) is kind of nauseating because that's the only thing they're doing. Then again, they want everyone to be in the cities than in rural areas.
I love near the sea front and it's preparing for rising water to prevent flooding. It's a big wall
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