The land that’s been sliding for decades in Rancho Palos Verdes is moving even quicker. Those who live in the bluffs above Abalone Cove said they need help — and fast.
In the last week, cracks have formed in the street in front of Sheri Hastings’ home and around her property.
“And now we’re cracking all over the place and this is not something we’ve ever experienced before,” Hastings said. “Everybody is worried.”
The sudden land movement broke apart her water main, tilted her fountain, split concrete walls and opened fissures in the ground under her horse stables.
Sheri has been measuring just how quickly the largest crack has grown in the past week. She said it has expanded about 2 inches.
The neighborhood above the Pacific Ocean started sliding slowly in the 1970s about 20 years after the land started slipping in the Portuguese Bend area. Now, it’s going at an alarming pace. A street in Abalone Cove closed Tuesday after it buckled from the land movement.