CONTINUING COVERAGE: Backyards sink into Irving Lake

TexasStooge · #21 Postby **TexasStooge** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:58 am

AHEM! Did the news media forget that the piece of area was a landfill back in the 1980s to early 1990s? :roll:

TexasStooge · #22 Postby **TexasStooge** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:17 am

To sum it all up (since the news is off that subject for now):

2/02: Back yards of 4 homes in Irving sunk 7 feet into Vilbig Lake.
2/06: Families try desperately to save their homes from Danger. Others feared their backyards are next.
2/15: City of Irving Denies Landslide Responsibility
2/16: An engineering report blames saturation from lake water and heavy rainfalls during the past year for softening soil and causing a landslide across several homes near Lake Vilbig in South Irving earlier this month.
2/18: Five families along Vilbig Lake in Irving are pressing city hall for another engineering study to find ways to fix a landslide behind their homes.

HurricaneGirl · #23 Postby **HurricaneGirl** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:53 am

Gorky · #24 Postby **Gorky** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:00 pm

You think thats bad... 13 years ago, a 4star hotel fell off a 200ft cliff just down the road from where I lived. Took a few days for it to go completely over so everyone got out, but that must have been a spectacle for the guests in the morning. Over a 100ft of gardens, and the conservatory had disappeared over night

I'll see if I can find a picture...

TexasStooge · #25 Postby **TexasStooge** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:22 pm

Gorky wrote:You think thats bad... 13 years ago, a 4star hotel fell off a 200ft cliff just down the road from where I lived. Took a few days for it to go completely over so everyone got out, but that must have been a spectacle for the guests in the morning. Over a 100ft of gardens, and the conservatory had disappeared over night I'll see if I can find a picture...

I'll take your word for it, that story topped mine.

CONTINUING COVERAGE: Backyards sink into Irving Lake

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