Monday, July 13, 2009

Stupid Homesites Continued

Last Summer I had a post about stupid places people have built homes from a fire point of view. This shows some new homes in Utah County that are were built on sites that were made by cutting a swath from the face of a mountain side. and at the bottom of a major wash. The pictures should speak for themselves. The backyards for some of these homes are about teen feet deep. The house with all the windows is built up against an 80 foot cliff and alread has falling rocks bumping into the uncompleted house. All I can think is this home must be someone who is into rocks because that's all the family will be avble to see from the north-facing windows.



Sufficeth to say, there is nothing holding back the weight of the mountain, rocks will keep falling, and a heavy spring runoff down the wash (esepcially following a fire the year before) could bring lots of mud and stuff .



Who do we think we are to defy the laws of nature, not the least of which is gravity! Perhaps the problem is that our egos have blocked our thought process to the point that we've forgotten how to think.