"Burr" wrote in news:6OREd.4595$u47.1871@trnddc09:

It's a shame that the cities give permits for houses on the side
of
these hills in the first place. Our tax money is spent saving these
house and the people in them and the land would have not slide if it
didn't have the weight of the house, pool and streets.


Insurance companies often demand that the grass be kept quite short due to
wildfire risks. Unfortunately this makes it much easier for the ground to
be disrupted from heavy raings.