Slopes Often Slippery -- The Risks of Living on a Mountain

Table of Contents
  1. Introduction
  2. Proposed Real Estate Contract Disclosure Statement
  3. History of Landslide Legislative Findings and
    Landslide Advisories for Western North Carolina
  4. Western North Carolina Property Alerts
  5. Important Information for Buyers of Property
    in Western North Carolina
  6. Recommended Websites
  7. Commentaries by date:
    1. 02/21/1998 Landslide Litigation
    2. 06/21/2006 Dream Home or Nightmare
    3. 09/13/2006 Rock the House
    4. 11/01/2006 Commissioners Need to Climb This Hill
  8. Newspaper articles:
    1. 08/16/2000 Risky Business by Bob Campbell - CSIndy
    2. 06/10/2003 Owners Fight Over Mudslides - The Mountaineer
    3. 03/16/2005 Rock Slide is a "Gravity Thing" - Mitchell News-Journal
    4. 07/13/2005 Who's to blame? - Smoky Mountain News
    5. 09/02/2005 Ordinances Debated as Mountains Move - The Mountaineer
    6. 03/20/2006 Study brings bad news - The Mountaineer
    7. 04/07/2006 Home's Stability has Been Restored - The Mountaineer
    8. 04/11/2006 Repairs - HendersonvilleNews.com
    9. 12/06/2006 Sliding into home - Mountain Xpress
    10. 12/13/2006 All downhill from here - Mountain Xpress
    11. 01/31/2007 Economic development meets steep-slope reality - Mountain Xpress
    12. 03/21/2007 Before you buy property in Western NC, read this! - The North Carolina Conservative
    13. 04/24/2007 Asheville faces slope law choice - Asheville Citizen Times
    14. 04/25/2007 WCU team studies slope slowly collapsing in Haywood County - Asheville Citizen Times
    15. 06/20/2007 Dam Break - Smoky Mountain News
    16. 07/11/2007 Fail Safe? - Mountain Xpress
    17. 07/12/2007 Phoenix Owners May Get Burned By Alleged Fire Violations - Mountain Times
    18. 07/18/2007 'I Feel Like an Idiot' - Wall Street Journal
    19. 08/16/2007 Jackson County Airport landslides threaten property owners - The Sylva Herald
    20. 11/07/2007 Looking for answers - Mountain Xpress
  9. Letters:
    1. 02/17/2006 to NC Governor Easley asking for moratorium
    2. 02/27/2006 Reply from NC Governor Easley
    3. 03/07/2006 Letter from James D. Simons, NCDENR Director
    4. 03/14/2006 to Charlotte Observer Editor
    5. 03/19/2006 to Atlanta Journal Constitution Editor
    6. 03/23/2006 to Jim Long, NC Commissioner of Insurance
    7. An Open Letter from Commissioner Jim Long
    8. 03/24/2006 to Roy Cooper, NC Attorney General
    9. 04/03/2006 Reply from Commissioner Jim Long
    10. 04/30/2006 to Harris H. Simmons, Chairman - American Bankers Association
    11. 05/17/2006 to Edward B. Rust Jr., CEO - State Farm Insurance
    12. 06/21/2006 Letter from John Shearin, State Farm Insurance Consultant
    13. 06/23/2006 to Dave Stormont, President - North Carolina Home Builders Association
    14. 09/05/2006 to NC Governor Easley asking for action to prevent more catastrophes
    15. 3/19/2007 to Deborah Platt Majoras, Chairman - Federal Trade Commission
  10. Boone Slope Recommendations
  11. Committee influences change to Boone Slope regulations
  12. Watauga Tops Landslide List
  13. Letter to the Editor, High Country News
  14. Governor Easley and the landslide mapping program
  15. The collapse of the Boone Task Force proposals for safe slope regulations
  16. Justices Reject Immunity Below State Level
  17. Photos of landslide damage in WNC!
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