The Travel Trip

The town of Malibu California is rather small. There are only around 12,500 residents that live in the area and most of them are super stars. In the 21 mile stretch of town there are some of the most influential film industry people as well as music and sports figures. Topanga Canyon is east of the area in the mountains and is also filled with entertainment industry people. There are some really great beaches to walk along as well as some beautiful mountains to hike in. This big wigs have some really expensive property that is not only pretty but happens to be in an area that gets disrupted by natural disasters.

There have been many fires, mudslides and storms that have come through the town and caused some real trouble for the residence that live here. One of the first recorded disasters was in 1929 when there was a fire that took out 13 homes. A blaze in 1930 took out 15,000 acres of the canyon near by after it was set by walnut pickers working in the Thousand Oaks area. Thousands and thousands of acres burned through out the years of heavy population to the small town and surrounding area. Some of these are started by natural storms but some have been deliberate such as six homes burned badly in 1985 that was set by arson.

Fires also lead to mudslides in the area. When there are are devastating fires along a forest it voids the mountain of vegetation to keep the mud from moving down the hill and into town. When trees and bushes are burned they leave their sap on top of the soil which keeps the rain water from soaking into the ground which also contributes to mudslides and floods. One of the worst cases of mudslides was in 1994, after a recent fire in 1993, there was a massive rainstorm and the water created a great mudslide in Las Flores Canyon which closed the Pacific Coast Highway for months to clear. They had to move thousands of tons of rock and mud from the highway and many homes were damaged along the beach. The area is clear now and there are many grand hotels in Malibu for you to come and enjoy the ocean and mountain views

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Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by admin
Filed under: Travel