"The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year — far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif. (For comparison, $3.5 million is about the same amount Medicare spends per month buying penis pumps for men with erectile dysfunction.)"from How Politics Buries Science in Landslide Mapping by Bill Dedman NBC News
Above: Screenshot from Landslide Mapping an Unfinished Task by Tony Schick for EarthFix
Above: After slide LiDAR PDF of Oso, WA. Contributed by Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times
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