What do you know about houses built on mountain slopes in n.c. falling down?
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Anything built on a slope will have subsidence. It will need underpinning regularly too. Also, like you state, hurricanes, earthquakes, tremors etc. houses on slopes are the first to go.
Other answers:
that it happen's sometimes.
that it happen's sometimes.
The real problem is when the cardboard gets wet.
I saw this when I lived in California. I don't understand why people do this when there is a danger of losing their home. It makes no sense to me.
It just depends on the area!
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Well, being that the mountains are being clearcut and there's excessive rain because of global climate change, I'd say anyone who builds a house on a mountain slope is pretty silly.
That goes for people who build on flood plains, and directly on the coast too. All of these places are vulnerable, especially when it rains or there are storms. Anyone who buys there must think that they can prevail over nature, which makes them an idiot, in my book.
I guess the right way would be to level the land where the house is to be built. Another way I thought would have been to block it up instead of the stilt houses you see so often at the beaches. I am not an architect though.