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PRI
19980213t37
.2000.0313
NEWS STORY
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Officials in
California
are
warninge1
residents that oncoming
rainse40
will
causee3
dangerous and unpredictable
landslidese41
.
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From member station KQED, Auncil
Martinez
reportse42
.
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Experts
saye5
the ground is so
saturatede6
it cannot
absorbe8
any more water.
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So
that
meanse9
soil will
falle43
off in chunks and
destroye11
anything in its path.
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In
Los Angeles
that lesson was brought home
todayt38
whens15
tons of earth
cascadede16
down a hillside,
rippinge17
two
houses from their foundations.
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No one was
hurte18
, but firefighters
orderede19
the
evacuatione45
of nearby homes and
saide20
they'll
monitore21
the shifting ground.
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In the
northern California
town of
Rio Nido
,
officials
saye23
a football field sized slab of hillside could still
breake25
loose at
any timet39
and
destroye29
an entire neighborhood.
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And in
San Francisco
, a mansion
overlooking the
Pacific Ocean
and the Golden Gate Bridge is
slippinge31
toward
the sea.
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Forecasters
saye32
the picture will
gete33
worse because more
rainse47
are
on the way.
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For
NPR
news, I'm Auncil Martinez
reportinge36
.
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