Powerful waves from former Hurricane Rachel tore apart sections of the Long Beach Peninsula boardwalk Friday morning, leaving one home on the verge of collapsing into the ocean.
Sunday morning was a tense one on the Long Beach coast as high surf battered the already diminished and damaged shoreline. Residents along the Long Beach Peninsula were left with no choice but to watch as huge waves generated by storm Rachel crashed over and over into the seawall just feet in front …
Large waves from Post-Tropical Storm Rachel slammed into homes on the beachfront in Long Beach, California, over the weekend, leaving some of the houses appearing close to collapsing.
At least eight buildings, representing 13 addresses, were red-tagged as unsafe to enter, while another was yellow-tagged, allowing residents limited access to retrieve their belongings, according to Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson.
City of Long Beach officials are assessing the damages left in the wake of Tropical Storm Rachel, which sent powerful waves crashing into the Southern California coast throughout the weekend. The waves caused extensive damages to multimillion-dollar homes on the Long Beach Peninsula.
High surf driven by Tropical Storm Rachel continued to batter Long Beach on Sunday, damaging oceanfront homes, prompting evacuation orders and threatening portions of the city's coastline.
Coastal residents in Long Beach are bracing for severe flooding, high surf and plunging temperatures as remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel batter Southern California, threatening waterfront homes. This comes as several coastal cities in Southern California have already faced serious erosion.
Thirteen homes along the Long Beach Peninsula have already been red-tagged following lashings by powerful waves and the city is bracing for the possibility of another round of high tides that could cause even more damage to an already vulnerable coastline.
The Long Beach Peninsula could see further damage Monday morning after powerful surf from Tropical Storm Rachel hammered the coast over the weekend, causing several oceanfront homes to be red-tagged. There are concerns about more flooding as the area approaches high tide Monday morning.
Emergency repairs and cleanup were underway Monday in California's wave-battered city of Long Beach, where several homes appeared on the brink of collapse and remained too dangerous to enter.
At least 13 homes have been red-tagged, meaning they're too dangerous to occupy. Inspectors said the number could change as they work to assess the damage.
Boardwalk destroyed in Long Beach and homes damaged, while Baja California in Mexico and Las Vegas also affected Southern California coastal communities are picking up the pieces after a weekend of extreme weather brought flooding that overtook city streets and intense waves battered beachside homes…
Tropical Storm Rachel weakened before reaching Baja California, but dangerous waves still damaged homes, flooded coastal communities and destroyed part of a Long Beach boardwalk in Southern California.
