His villa is about to fall off a cliff and he refuses to leave it: “The house is fine”

Lewis Bruggemann He wants nothing to do with abandoning his $15.9 million mansion. She without even knowing that at any moment she could fall off a cliff into the Pacific Ocean.

The house was left on the edge of a cliff after the base collapsed in storms that hit California, US, earlier this month. The large pile of earth, sand and rocks that supports it suffered a slide due to the floods that occurred in the area.

“It will require very, very significant work to stabilize that property,” he told the Washington Post Kyle Tourjeexecutive vice president of Structural alphaan engineering firm in Los Angeles.

Kyle said they’re seeing more and more damage and there will continue to be more.”more important damage”. “Between consecutive years of high saturation, these homes, these properties… simply cannot withstand this type of blow.”

Lewis isn’t going anywhere

The owner, an 82-year-old radiologist, told KCAL that “the house is fine” and “is not threatened.”

However, the villa is located on the edge of a cliff and the prospects are not good: the National Weather Service warns that it could continue to rain in the area, generating new mudslides.

Bruggeman is banking on the fact that despite the risk, the city “agrees” that there are no major structural problems.

There are other villas affected

Two other villas in Dana Point were affected by the swamp and were, like Bruggeman’s, analyzed to exclude risks. The visits of a geotechnical engineer and a building inspector were confirmed by the construction manager, Mike Killebrewat CBS News.

Even though the three houses are “safe” at the moment, Their owners must invest in improvements so they don’t succumb to future storms.

The three villas that could end up in the Pacific have a value of 15.9 million, 14.1 million and 12.9 million.