Rancho Palos Verdes landslide problem is ‘bigger than our city’ say leaders, residents

It was just before midnight one day in March and Sallie Reeves was asleep in her 1952 ranch home atop a Portuguese Bend Bluff overlooking the ocean.

It had rained the month before – in record-breaking buckets.

But Sallie and her husband, John, who is disabled from two hemorrhagic strokes, had experienced just minor cracking to their patio and driveway.

But as they slept, suddenly and without warning, their bedroom ceiling collapsed.

And a torrent of rain blasted them awake.