Lewis Bruggeman
wants nothing to do with leaving his $15.9 million, four-bedroom mansion.
Not even knowing that at any moment he can fall from a cliff into the Pacific Ocean.
The house was left on the edge of a cliff after the base gave way due to the storms that hit California, United States, at the beginning of the month.
The large mound of earth, sand and rocks that supports it suffered a slide due to flooding in the area.
"There will be very, very significant work that will be needed to stabilize that property,"
Kyle Tourjé
, executive vice president of
Alpha Structural
, a Los Angeles engineering firm, told the Washington Post.
Kyle said they are seeing more and more damage and there will continue to be “
more significant damage
.” “Between consecutive years of heavy saturation, these houses, these properties... they just can't take this kind of blow.”
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Lewis Bruggeman, 82, says his house is "fine."
Lewis isn't going anywhere
The owner, an 82-year-old radiologist, told KCAL that “
the house is fine
” and “it is not threatened.”
However, the mansion is on the edge of a cliff and the outlook is not good: the National Weather Service warns that it could continue to rain in the area, which would generate new mudslides.
Lewis, the 82-year-old man who does not want to give in.
Bruggeman relies on the fact that, despite the risk, the city “agrees” that there is no major structural problem.
There are other mansions affected
Two other mansions in Dana Point were affected by the quagmire and were, like Bruggeman's, analyzed to rule out risks.
The visits by a geotechnical engineer and a building inspector were confirmed by site manager,
Mike Killebrew
, to CBS News.
Although at the moment the three houses are “safe”,
their owners will have to invest in improvements so that they do not give in to future storms
.
The three mansions that could end up in the Pacific are valued at 15.9 million, 14.1 million and 12.9 million.