AI6YR BenNov 24

(Palos Verdes; electric utilities refuse to keep on reconnecting homes built on a moving prehistoric landslide that is moving inexorably into the Pacific).

LA Times: A scenic L.A. suburb with ocean views went off grid. How are residents surviving?

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-24/a-landslide-left-them-without-power-now-they-are-one-of-californias-largest-off-grid-communities

#disasters #PalosVerdes #PortugueseBend

One of California's largest off-grid communities is in suburban L.A.

When public utilities indefinitely cut power to the Portuguese Bend community in Rancho Palos Verdes last year following months of devastating landslide movement, most residents saw it as the neighborhood's latest obstacle. Most have been living completely off-grid for more than a year.

Los Angeles Times
Daniel SoferAug 26, 2025
Bluff Cove: Watching the sun set over Bluff Cove in Palos Verdes.




ブラフ・コーブ
パロス・ベルデスにあるブラフ・コーブから夕日が沈むのを見ている。 https://hermosawavephotography.com/250825/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #BluffCove #SunsetPhotography #PalosVerdes #NatureLovers #LandscapePhotography
Daniel SoferAug 25, 2025
ICYMI: Catalina in the Clouds: Looking south towards Catalina Island at sunset from the Palos Verdes Peninsula, while the ocean is covered in low lying clouds.

雲の中のカタリナ島
パロスバーデス半島から、夕暮れのカタリナ島を南に望む。海は低い雲に覆われている。 https://hermosawavephotography.com/250810/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #CatalinaIsland #SunsetPhotography #PalosVerdes #OceanView #Clouds
Daniel SoferAug 25, 2025

ICYMI: Catalina in the Clouds: Looking south towards Catalina Island at sunset from the Palos Verdes Peninsula, while the ocean is covered in low lying clouds.


雲の中のカタリナ島
パロスバーデス半島から、夕暮れのカタリナ島を南に望む。海は低い雲に覆われている。 https://hermosawavephotography.com/250810/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #CatalinaIsland #SunsetPhotography #Clouds #PalosVerdes #OceanView

StacesCases2 🇨🇦 📎Jul 29, 2025
Residents in #Rancho #PalosVerdes have been living in fear that one day, their homes might succumb to the nearly 100-year-old landslide. Just when they thought they were going to be receiving funds to help, it was taken away by Trump. lukebeasley.substack.com/p/another-tr...

Another Trump-Voting Town Deni...
Another Trump-Voting Town Denied FEMA Aid

I guess they thought having his golf course would save them.

The Beasley Brief
Conspiracy of CartographersMar 23, 2025
I love LA, so spare the bullshit celebrations of its demise.
…the #Petrofuture map of south Los Angeles & Long Beach. 
66m sea level rise — melted ice caps on a vintage Shell gas station map. 

Higher-res images:
https://conspiracyofcartographers.com/petrofuturegallery/

#climateChange #maps #cartography #climateCrisis #greenWashing #California #LosAngeles #LongBeach #PalosVerdes #OrangeCounty #worldBuilding
Petrofuture Gallery – Conspiracy of Cartographers

Penny RichardsMar 13, 2025
started a #wikipedia article on US violinist, conductor, Elyse Aehle (1894-1981), began conducting orchestras in the Illinois in the 1930s, continued in Los Angeles from the 1940s to the early 1970s, as conductor of the South Bay Symphony (and her grave is in my zipcode): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elyse_Aehle @wikiwomeninred #WomeninMusic @wikipedia_la #PalosVerdes #Torrance #SanPedro #Violin #TennesseeWilliams
Elyse Aehle - Wikipedia

Show threadAI6YR BenFeb 27, 2025
This would make a wicked time lapse photo location, though you'd probably have to use a high precision GPS to align where you put the camera every day. 4 inches per day I think the lady said in the video... Amazed it all doesn't run straight to the sea in one fell swoop. #disasters #landslide #PalosVerdes
AI6YR BenFeb 27, 2025
Great news piece on the Palos Verdes, sliding into the sea in slow motion. It's like a living, moving disaster movie! https://www.cbsnews.com/video/california-neighborhood-is-slowly-sliding-toward-the-ocean/ #PalosVerdes #disaster #landslide
California neighborhood is slowly sliding toward the ocean

A California neighborhood is slowly sliding toward the ocean, but not all homeowners want to leave. A buyout program only provides 75% of the funding for the city to buy affected properties at fair market value, while the remaining share is absorbed by sellers. Jonathan Vigliotti reports.

CBS News
Show threadAI6YR BenFeb 7, 2025
Ooh, love this visualization! #PalosVerdes #landslide #PortugueseBend