Bus Crash on 161

[Captain Crawfish]

There is a fault line that runs through there, and it's been shifting more and more in recent years. I think there have been 5-6 earthquakes there just in the last 12-18 months. That plays more in to it than the grading.

Yeah it's the earthquakes bro gtfo here with that BS

[Captain Crawfish]

Typical media bs always looking to place blame. Those buses do drive to fast though. I drive a semi and I know most of those bus drivers drive way over the limit

[bcoop]

So you don't fall in?

Precisely. I love me some whores.

[CJ]

I've done the same thing prior to sex.

So you don't fall in?

[bcoop]

I tie a rope around my waist and to the ceiling posts before I go to sleep.

I've done the same thing prior to sex.

[CJ]

I tie a rope around my waist and to the ceiling posts before I go to sleep.

[46Tbird]

My current house is consuming itself.

[Baron Von Crowder]

The area I'm in isnt terrible, but I expect some foundation work in the future. I lived in a rental a few miles closer to 20 and the house next door had 3-4" cracks in the walls all the way across one side of the house, inside and out, and across the floor. It reminded me of the "split level" on the LIFE boardgame.

[CJ]

I think just about all of dfw has shitty foundation soil. South Arlington is fairly bad, too.

My current house is consuming itself.

I think just about all of dfw has shitty foundation soil. South Arlington is fairly bad, too.

[bcoop]

I worked in a building basically at 161 and Gateway.

We are just right around the corner, and our building is pretty bad too. We've had it mudjacked at least 3 times in the last 8 years. I have a 4" gap under my wall between my office and the warehouse. It gets a little chilly during winter.


We haven't had any plumbing issues yet, though.

[46Tbird]

I worked in a building basically at 161 and Gateway. You could actually see the ground outside rolling down the hill... it was making lumps in the grass at the bottom of the hill and there were a few bare spots where it was detaching. That building had really bad foundation problems too. One storage room was pulled apart nearly a foot before they had a contractor come out to fix it. It was plagued with broken pipes, causing "gray" water to come up out of the drains. Real pleasant.

There's no way I'd buy a home in Irving, there is just too much soil movement.

[Phuck Phace]

There is a fault line that runs through there, and it's been shifting more and more in recent years. I think there have been 5-6 earthquakes there just in the last 12-18 months. That plays more in to it than the grading.

I didn't know that either. I'm used to the roads in Plano so I hate driving out here, the people drive awful too.

[CJ]

EditL I have the name wrong, hang on... Cottonwood Valley homes have the same issues. My uncle lives in there, and had upwards of $70,000 worth of foundation repairs when they bought the house, prior to moving in.


CJ, surely you knew of all the earthquakes locally right? There has been a post on it on here, almost every time. I'm assuming here, but I'm sure those can be traced back to that fault line by someone with more time than I have. DFW has bad soil, sure, but foundation issues seem to be worse in Irving than in other surrounding cities.

I knew there had been some earthquakes recently, but I didn't know the fault line was right there. I bet that bastard doesn't pay tolls either.

[bcoop]

Yep, Hackberry Creek (a pretty big development near MacArthur/161) homes have had foundation issues there and Kinwest Pkwy, runs north of the development is a heaving, bouncy horrible road. Most/all of the homes in Hackberry are pier and beam and they still have foundation issues.

I heard that area used to be a huge landfill many decades ago which contributes to how bad the ground is there.

I did not know that.

Edit: I have the name wrong, hang on... Cottonwood Valley homes have the same issues. My uncle lives in there, and had upwards of $70,000 worth of foundation repairs when they bought the house, prior to moving in.


CJ, surely you knew of all the earthquakes locally right? There has been a post on it on here, almost every time. I'm assuming here, but I'm sure those can be traced back to that fault line by someone with more time than I have. DFW has bad soil, sure, but foundation issues seem to be worse in Irving than in other surrounding cities.