{"id":6197,"date":"2013-04-04T07:07:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T07:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=6197"},"modified":"2013-04-04T07:07:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T07:07:41","slug":"caveat-emptor-part-2-the-end-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/04\/04\/caveat-emptor-part-2-the-end-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Caveat Emptor part 2 – the end game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in October I highlighted the case of a house in Torquay in Devon that was being affected by landslides<\/a>.\u00a0 This is rather a sad story in many ways – the house was bought for a knock-down, but not insubstantial, price, apparently unseen, before the most recent problems began.\u00a0 The buyer has now suffered very high levels of loss as the house has been destroyed.\u00a0 The Daily Mail yesterday<\/a> ran a photo story about the house, which has subsequently suffered a series of landslide events.\u00a0 The result is that it is possible to put together a sequence of photos of the loss of the house:<\/p>\n

The house in question (from the Daily Mail<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2221965\/Torquay-house-left-teetering-cliff-edge-landslide-week-disabled-Sue-Diamond-paid-154k-it.html<\/p><\/div>\n

After the landslide in October 2012 (from the Daily Mail<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2221965\/Torquay-house-left-teetering-cliff-edge-landslide-week-disabled-Sue-Diamond-paid-154k-it.html<\/p><\/div>\n

By February this year the landslide had retrogressed sufficiently that the house was starting to show severe signs of distress (from the Daily Mail<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2303412\/Sea-red-landslide-claims-Torquay-cliff-face-taking-154-000-house-owned-London-woman-bought-viewing.html<\/p><\/div>\n

A couple of weeks later and a further collapse had occurred (from the Daily Mail<\/a>):<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In the last few days a large landslide event occurred, taking a part of the house with it (from the Daily Mail<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2303412\/Sea-red-landslide-claims-Torquay-cliff-face-taking-154-000-house-owned-London-woman-bought-viewing.html<\/p><\/div>\n

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So now the endgame for this house is very close (from the Daily Mail):<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2303412\/Sea-red-landslide-claims-Torquay-cliff-face-taking-154-000-house-owned-London-woman-bought-viewing.html<\/p><\/div>\n

This is clearly a tragedy for the owner.\u00a0 Unfortunately, although the period of very heavy rainfall in the UK appears to have ceased now (at least temporarily), it is likely that water levels deep in the ground are continuing to rise.\u00a0 This means that we are very likely to see some more large landslides in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the last few months a house in Torquay, England has been progressively lost to a landslide. This post presents a series of photos of its collapse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":6200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[469,983,959,715,133],"class_list":["post-6197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-featured","tag-landslide-images","tag-landslide-report","tag-torquay","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}