The house, which was vacant at the time of the landslide, began sliding towards the water as the ground underneath it slowly shifted on Monday morning.
“We called the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, geologists, hydrologists, lots of -ologisists,” Mid-County Fire Chief Scott Frandsen told Lake News Online.
While no one is sure what has caused the ground underneath the home to move, as of Wednesday it had moved about 33 inches closer to the water at a rate of one inch per hour according to KTVI.
“Unfortunately, the opinion of about everyone involved is the house is lost,” Frandsen said. “Now we have to determine what we are going to do with it.”
Multiple agencies including the Missouri Department of Natural resources are investigating the situation in hopes of finding a way to stop the slipping. Two other homes in the area have also been cited as being at risk of sliding into the lake.
