We lived in one of those apartments in 1972 and it was a good 100 yards to the edge of the cliff. There was an indoor swimming pool and where it once was no longer exists. I am amazed they haven’t condemned those buildings!
Whoa! I lived in these apartments on Esplanade Blvd back in 1962-63. I don't remember them being so close to the ocean! Dang! Mother Nature takes back her land.
Theodore Roberge this needs to be flagged by the poster or somehow made a top comment so that everyone with smart-ass comments realizes the extent of erosion
That was my guess, 50s - 60s construction, so to all the posters that complain about people living so close to the edge yeah, a) erosion but also b) folks have been enjoying the view for 60 years, it's been worth the financial risk even if and when they fall into the sea. The properties look like they were nearing the end of their natural lives anyway. Maybe even a little thrill at enjoying the day knowing one day it will be gone.
I wish we had drones back then or atleast an arial photograph from the 60's wjen you were there. It would be fascinating to see how much erosion has taken place. Were there gardens or a large walkway before? How far would you say it went out before. 50metres? 100? 😁
There are aerial photos of the area, going back to the 1940's - you have to pay for them but they're out there. Someone flew a plane along there in the mid '30's doing surveys for the Army and the USGS. The coast was about 200 feet away when the Esplanade Apartments were constructed, if I remember correctly. There was a large, open field to the northwest with nature trails and stairs down to the beach. The coast has advanced around 3 feet per year since then.
@@yvonnewitherspoon846 I don't think it is sad at all. The earth is so beautiful because of erosion. Things like the grand canyon would not exist without erosion. Think of all the beautiful lakes that were carved into the earth by the glaciers.
At 1:28 I can see the apartment I lived in for 4 years. It's much closer to the edge of the cliff than it used to be. It was such a spectacular place to live, but we all knew that all those buildings were going to fall into the ocean one day.
+Arch Simpson The ones in the middle (where the HUGE chunk falls off) were condemned years ago. They are uninhabited. The one on the far left with people.. they were condemned on 1/25. Many have moved or are moving out. Some are not.
There is enough cliffs to appreciate out there with no buildings. My problem with constructions of this kind, in privileged nature location, is when they build ugly and shitty architecture that does not in any way complement the nature. You look at certain locations like Santorini, Azenhas do Mar, Cinque Terre and Ronda and you will see the beauty when man builds over nature and makes use of it.
Esplanade Avenue in Pacifica. Those apartments 'on the edge' were vacated some time earlier and the ones still occupied shortly after this drone footage. All have since been torn down - nobody lost their lives.
What amazes me is that most of these apartments are still occupied. Gawd how could you sleep at night? This part of the landscape sits on the Ring of Fire, that threatens San Francisco with earthquakes. So as the plateau is being pushed up by plate tectonics that moves clockwise and submerges at the same time, the coastline stability is undermined and flakes apart. The ocean only helps it along. It would be happening anyway. I guess on a positive note, it means that there is not friction buildup due to resistance of movements with plate tectonic activity and therefore a huge earthquake of the magnitude experienced in San Francisco over one hundred years ago, is less likely to happen. Wow. Credit to the author for having captured it on camera. Phenomenal.
Calm and soothing just to listen to. It never ceases to amaze me how many times homes/businesses are demolished simply from the inevitable. Most people never learn. Plain to see that, just look at the people who are walking around right above the ground that is crumbling.
I lived in an apartment down from those, the last one before a stretch of beach above the pier. I watched the pier being built and sadly, saw a helicopter go into the drink when they were building the pier. I used to climb down the cliff in Pacifica to run on the beach every morning. But that was before they evacuated a lot of those dwellings on the cliffs, but I heard about it. I moved maybe 5 hears later, down to my home in Montara just below Devil's Slide in about 1975 or so, and knew about the erosion; one house on the cliff lost about 30 feet of frontage, but I moved away from the area before it was really bad for those residents on the cliff above Pacifica. I wonder of those buildings have fallen down by now! I moved two states away 20 years ago, to the mountains and I miss the ocean but love the snow!
The “ground literally started sliding out from them” for more than 50 years. I lived there in the 70’s. They could’ve moved when the edge was 10 yards away with plenty of time to do it. This video makes you think this happened in months or days. It took decades and they knew full well it was coming.
@@bravomasterchief I mean you could see the concrete, that looked like 50 year old concrete, maybe older, and then the boulder break water as a second attempt. The video doesn’t explain anything, it just shows what’s happening now, or rather 5 years ago.
At around 4:30 you can see the cliffs falling down on the right while on the left there is a guy casually standing outside on the second floor. Holy shit, I would be out of there as soon as I can.
The same thing has been going on down south in Malibu, Big Sur, etc. ever since stupid people built houses on compacted sand for a view of the ocean, then wanted the taxpayer to pay for their house sliding into the ocean! Nothing new to see here, folks!
The big pile of rocks seems to be helping. The cement retaining wall by the orange houses is foolhardy as it will collapse once the sand beneath it fails. I think the second row of houses will be saved because all the cement foundations, refrigerators and washing machines from the first line of failed apartments will add to the big pile of rocks.
This is what happens when people think they can ignore mother nature and do whatever they want. Like building on a delta and then wondering why it floods so bad. A little common sense would go a long way
+Dan Underwood - Yes, I was completely surprised. I was thinking to myself that surely no-one would be living in those dwellings given the state of the ground beneath them. And then when the camera zoomed in toward the patio areas, and SHOWING people in there, I thought I was imagining seeing it.
i hope as a good human being u should have show this footage to the people that lives in there otherwise u are just another lurkers that doesn't care about people
+joan Alonso The most recent news article states that the people living there know the risks, they know the building has been condemned and they are being ordered to move out, but they are STILL not willing to move out.
Nuts. Those houses look quite modern. What kind of developer builds so close to a cliff that's pretty much made of dirt? What kind of planning authority zones it? What kind of insurance company underwrites it? What kind of homeowner buys it? Everyone has taken leave of their senses... And I've just realised - the houses aren't evacuated. Seems that the owners have a death-wish too!
Thanks for sharing this. My Fifth Grade students and I are currently studying erosion right now. I will definitely share this with them as well as the other Fifth Grade teachers!
I lived on Esplanade twice, back in the 80's and 90's. For a total of around 15 yrs. Always a large expanse of sand protecting the cliffs down by the beach . In fact the issue for the apartments at the edge of the cliff here was the erosion from the street side towards the ocean during the winter causing erosion, not the ocean waves hitting the sandstone cliffs, all the rain water funneled thru PVC pipes . Also there were large expanses of ice plant growing from these apartment towards the edges of the cliff, takes a long time for that much surface coverage. Plus all these apartments had enough space for a patio and BBQ set up. However it all went to hell after San Francisco built the huge sewage outfall pipe off Ocean Beach next the the San Francisco zoo. After the huge pipe was put in, the beach sand slowly depleted , normal winter beach erosion but the usual influx/replenishment of sand in the summer stopped completely. Slowly each year the beach area has gotten smaller and smaller until the winter waves started hitting the base of the cliffs directly. 90% of the beach sand is now gone, actually dangerous to walk on now during high tides. Where it shows in the video of waves hitting the boulder pile below the cliff I was easily able to walk on year around, sometimes you could could walk to the Pacifica pier, not anymore.
@@thechloromancer3310 They did build a barrier of huge rock boulders but only after the massive cliff erosion had started. An extremely costly as well as dangerous project working under a crumbling cliff and a pounding surf zone close by. Little or no access for heavy construction equipment to be brought in to the base of the cliff added to the complications and expense. No idea how long the environmental impact report took...
In the late 80's early 90's I live near Santa Cruz. Somewhere between Santa Cruz and Davenport on the coastal hwy there was this really cool point. A path lead to the very tip where you could sit. You had a nearly 360 degree view of the ocean. There was 1 rebar piled into the ground so those feint of heart could hold on to for comfort. About 15 years ago I went back to that spot. It was completely gone. Washed away.
+Chuck Reynolds When those buildings fall.They will pull all the electric cables and water pipes in LA county down into the ocean with them.A lot of people are going to be left without electricity and water as a result.Not much of a result, if you ask me.
Moor Letoh ....um... "in LA county"? You realize this footage is from up near San Francisco right? But yeah i'm sure there are some cables and stuff under those buildings... not a good situation but has nothing to do with LA county bud.
When those storms roll in off the Pacific they slam those raindrops into the side of those cliffs. Gulls pick away at them to nest. Afternoon sun dries it out only to have marine layer moisten it up again.
Monterey California too. Years ago I was house hunting and went to a townhouse complex. The RE agent was inside to greet whoever showed up. I was thinking if I had money to throw away, I would not mind buying it, It was a matter of the whole complex will be submerged in the water. The front row of houses already were sitting concrete reinforcers! It was scary to me. But I am sure some do not mind at all; honey, the view is spectacular!! Portions of Highway 1 will be submerged in water too, given some years. It already happened. Highway 1 was not so close to the ocean decades ago.
This was happening 30 years ago when I lived there and I'm sure for millennia before that. Don't build your house on a cliff side folks. Unless the beauty calls to you and you ACCEPT there's a good chance you'll lose your house some day.
Coastal erosion is nothing new, its been going on for generations yet these home owners are shocked its happening to them. If you want a sea view house buy one built on solid rock cliffs not clay and sand.
It always astonishes me that people have known that the sea has eroded the land for millions of years, but they still build houses on cliff tops and then complain when they are washed away.
@I speak The truth I hear ya,, and I'm ignoring them right now,, just focusing on what would allow the coastline to go back to being clear of all the crap buildings.. I remember that particular coastline before the buildings
We've got a housing tract out here in Henderson, NV.. It's being built on the unlined settling ponds of a long gone chemical plant. You're talking of around 40 years of who knows what dumped out there soaking into the ground. 3 companies went bust trying to get around that. The last spent 6+ months scraping off a layer of that dirt, treating it, and using it to grade pads for housing. The tract is called "Cadence". I used to ask workers and new homeowners if they knew what their houses were being built on, not many, if any, knew. I joked with them that I wanted a picture of the first 3 eyed Koi in their fish pond. It's just a guess, but, I'm thinking that, that's going to be a sequel to "Aaron Brockovich".
Yea this puts me in mind of the old Movie called Poltergeist, By the way i think Aaron might might be retired by Now !!! But if it were me, i would look for property in another Area !!! Good Luck !!!
Excellent perspectives I could see the whole situation from watching the individual people on their back porches to seeing down the entire coast. This was great!
Man, that ocean is a beast. Can you imagine trying to fight it? She's relentless, rarely calms and mostly rages. She's a super heavy weight with a perfect record. She's never lost to a ship or continent. Boulders are pebbles and mountains are stepping stones. Stay back - don't temp her or challenge her. She will crush you!!
@@lohphat ...It's not the realestate devlopers fault...it's the governing body that gave the approval to build there, they should be the ones held liable
@@harryberry474 Developers have so much to gain that they have the regulatory departments in their pockets. Low income housing isn’t profitable so even if mandated the developers always weasel out of the obligation. Campaign donations are a powerful drug.
@@lohphat ...Exactly, that's why the regulators should be held accountable and have proof they haven't taken (essentially bribes) to approve these questionable developments
" And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
The Pacific Ocean is a relentless force of nature, that will continue to erode those bluffs until they are totally decimated by the destructive power of those waves to destroy them with each wave crash that hits them.
i would never build that close to edge i would want at least a thousand feet of backyard but i would test the soil before building especially since the earth in general is going through so much dramatic change nothing is forever
This is just one example of why building code should prohibit any construction within 50 to 100 yards of the ocean.......same thing in the carolinas and anywhere along the coastline.........makes about as much sense as building on the side of an active volcano.
+Earl Ismyname Actually the San Andreas Fault runs directly under those homes. That's how the cliff was formed in the first place. So doubly stupid of them.
@Mighty Tone Hi, All around the world. Look at old cowboy films, look at Iraq-Iran battle footage, look at WW2 Tunisian desert war between UK, Italy, Germans, look at Spaghetti WW2 battle films shot in Africa - there was a lot of these on UK tv recently - all Italian actors pretending to be Americans fighting Germans. Rubbish plot and lipsynch all wrong but the scenery was definietly Flood sediments, Look at film of Australian mountains and scenery, I have lived in hilly part of West Yorkshire, UK all my life and travelled up many rail and road cuttings through the hill that all show the many layers. Geologists desperately try to claim teh layers are due to tectonic plates climbing over each other but the Newtonian Fizziks make that impossible.
This video reminds me of one I'd seen either 2017 or 2018 (I think) of a news report of a man who, if I remember correctly lived in PEI Canada, talked to a reporter about how outside his home when he was a little boy he'd go and play in the field that was behind his house. Play baseball I think he said and that the ocean was some distance away. Well now all grown up and probably in his late 50s or early 60s he can now just stand on his porch and see the ocean maybe 30 feet away from his house. That whole field gone! I'm sure if someone can find the video they can correct any distance I've mistaken but like this video it makes me sad that this is happening. I believe the gentleman said he could get a couple of years more before he'd have to move. Imagine visiting your childhood home wearing scuba gear!?! It now being 2019 I wonder if he's moved yet or even still alive.
It would appear that building your house upon the sand really is a bad idea. It must really bother the rich people who wanted to keep the rest of us from ever seeing the ocean.
The coasts around the world are not just eroding ! The sea level is rising exponentially over time. How many ice cubes can you drop in a half full glass of water before it over flows....... Think ! Point of view, don’t see land getting smaller look at the ocean getting bigger.
Pretty sad those houses are gonna go. Eventually the city will build a concrete barrier along the edge to stop the erosion, but not until it reaches that freeway in the background.
This is not an emergency!! It's proof of the highest levels of arrogance, greed and stupidity. A friend of mine inherited a cottage on the shore of Lake Michigan. It overlooks the lake from a vey steep sandy cliff. The first time I went there we walked out back and the words just blurted out. "Whoa, when is all this gonna end up in the lake"? Well, it and everybody else's homes in that area are now gone. If I, someone of no special or great intelligence can in a flash of obvious insight, look at that sandy cliff face and determine, this aint gonna end well, surely, a group of intelligent individuals could come to the same conclusion. Pretty sure between arrogance, greed and stupidity, greed is the major factor.
This was filmed in January 2016. 2 of the buildings were demolished Feb-March 2016. The 3rd building was demolished January 2017. www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Apartments-in-Pacifica-Get-Demolished-as-Cliffs-Crumble-372004042.html bronxborn70
I know I'm late, but I'm wondering if the weight of the buildings adds to the erosion? I see the trail area doesn't look as eroded. Is love to see current pics of the area. Also, I read in one of the comments that the waste water outlet seemed to be creating a lot of the issues here, did they find a solution? I would think with real estate prices in that area that this would be a priority to figure out and fix.
In my city we also have cliffs like those and sea erosion has also eaten away a big chunk of land. Some smaller buildings have been lost and what's next is the road. They did build a 'coastal defense' but only time will tell if it's truly effective.
Nice flying! Just saw the footage on the Today Show. Amazing to see! The property values around that area must be tanking... sad to say. The views must be awesome overlooking that cliff I guess people take a big risk to have it.
I live in Milwaukee,WI and this is happening on a smaller scale between Milwaukee and the states southern border due to Lake Michigan. Many homes have been declared unlivable.
If the authorities had just removed those condemned buildings, when it was still safe, it would have taken a lot of pressure off the cliff-face and possibly slowed the collapse.
The cliff was hundreds of feet away when they were built (about 50 years ago). Another couple centuries and highway 1 will be in the ocean too (seen in the background). This was built long before it was understood how fast coasts decay.
"This was built long before it was understood how fast coasts decay." Demonstrably false. Humans have known for thousands of years how coasts work. They wanted to build it close, and now, they are paying the price for that hubris.
Howard Barnett Wrong, but you get a C for effort. No bank would finance a long-term loan or an insurance company for that risk. If you doubt me, try it.
Xiao Liu Natural cyclic climate changes? When I was a kid in the early 1960s there were parts of the eroded old highway 1 in the middle of the beach about 20 miles south of this scene. It happened decades before the "global warming" boogie man was invented to make money for a few elite. Normal climate erosion has been going on since the dawn of time. Sorry, the big bad boogie man does not explain this. But nice try. You get a C- for effort.
The government of this country should give contracts to the Indian firms to not only minimize but to stop the soil erosion. Example is marine beach in Mumbai
Can you understand about the First Nations People concerned about abuse of the land and that Mother Earth will not stand for abuse. Here is a prime example of abuse and the retaliation for that abuse. Even with all the large rock mitigation at the bottom of the cliff, the erosion still come from the top, the abuse will not be tolerated.
How can 40% of people viewing this video dislike it! That is bizarre. Someone takes the trouble to film, edit, and post a video (ie work and effort) to document and share a thing like this and thousands of people give it a thumbs down? What is wrong with people!
Well, Paul, I've just formed the opinion that some folks by nature need to be negative, find fault, go against the tide (pun not intended, really). If a trend is going in a positive direction, that all too common ilk needs to build their self-esteem by expressing what they believe to be their dissimilitude by opposing popular opinion with an ineffective rating widget. What's the point, of casting negative feedback? If we don't like a video, just leave, don't waste the time watching an entire video and casting that worthless negative "vote."
It's because all the people living in those houses are about to fall 400 feet to they're deaths. If they manage to escape the houses are going to end up in the sea anyway!
When this happened I was on a Californian road trip and after seeing this on a news clip went over to have a look after discovering all of the apartments were fenced off for safety reasons As we were looking through the gap beween the apartments we were about to leave when a bloke came out of the right hand front door. We asked him if we could enter his apartment to see the remains of his back lot only to be told we couldn’t because his “Wife was asleep! inside”
Sadly it's probably cheaper to let it fall in the ocean. Man doesn't care about the environment and that won't change until the environment finally kills us off.
Either it's cheaper to just let it fall in, or it's too dangerous to bring the necessary machinery that close to the edge. If they did that, it could just trigger the collapse early and while lots of people are there
Real estate agent 10 yrs ago: "its a great property a couple of blocks from the beach"
Real estate agent today: "its a beachfront property"
More like the last 10,000 years or more.
On the beach!
3 or 4 more years it will be gone property sad thing !
next year did you say you wanted a house boat?
We lived in one of those apartments in 1972 and it was a good 100 yards to the edge of the cliff. There was an indoor swimming pool and where it once was no longer exists. I am amazed they haven’t condemned those buildings!
Whoa! I lived in these apartments on Esplanade Blvd back in 1962-63. I don't remember them being so close to the ocean! Dang! Mother Nature takes back her land.
Theodore Roberge this needs to be flagged by the poster or somehow made a top comment so that everyone with smart-ass comments realizes the extent of erosion
Theodore Roberge there so OLD they should go into ocean!!
That was my guess, 50s - 60s construction, so to all the posters that complain about people living so close to the edge yeah, a) erosion but also b) folks have been enjoying the view for 60 years, it's been worth the financial risk even if and when they fall into the sea. The properties look like they were nearing the end of their natural lives anyway. Maybe even a little thrill at enjoying the day knowing one day it will be gone.
I wish we had drones back then or atleast an arial photograph from the 60's wjen you were there. It would be fascinating to see how much erosion has taken place. Were there gardens or a large walkway before? How far would you say it went out before. 50metres? 100? 😁
There are aerial photos of the area, going back to the 1940's - you have to pay for them but they're out there. Someone flew a plane along there in the mid '30's doing surveys for the Army and the USGS. The coast was about 200 feet away when the Esplanade Apartments were constructed, if I remember correctly. There was a large, open field to the northwest with nature trails and stairs down to the beach. The coast has advanced around 3 feet per year since then.
The land is literally falling out from under the building next door and yet these eejits are calmly standing around...I'd have been long gone by then.
That is because you are Irish and have a bit of cop on. Americans, not so much.
They probably can’t. Looks like public housing to me.
In other countries they would have evacuated and removed those buildings long time ago. Here they apparently wait for the next storm to do the job.
WoW mother nature and father time....so sad
@@yvonnewitherspoon846 I don't think it is sad at all. The earth is so beautiful because of erosion. Things like the grand canyon would not exist without erosion. Think of all the beautiful lakes that were carved into the earth by the glaciers.
At 1:28 I can see the apartment I lived in for 4 years. It's much closer to the edge of the cliff than it used to be. It was such a spectacular place to live, but we all knew that all those buildings were going to fall into the ocean one day.
not yet^^
Unless they demolish them and build them a little further away
Don’t worry the next row of houses will have a great view in a couple weeks!
About 10 years they will yup
Oh Mother Nature is never done, changing the Landscape !!!!
looks like the buildings are gone now. I put a man on the ground in google and no buildings on the seaward side of Esplanade.
I just google mapped. Yes, looks like gone. See remnants of buildings that used to be there.
Oh man, your comment is as brutal as the erosion 😬.
TheRichest: “Seaside homes that only cost 1$!”
Hahahahahaha
Nah wouldn't take it even for free🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@hazzastyles4289 true...theyd still sell it for a huge amount...until it drops!!
Lmao
1$+what.
My question is, why haven't the authorities not condemned these buildings? I saw people walking in and out of them on to the balconies.
+Arch Simpson They have. The residents aren't willing to move. abc7news.com/weather/tenants-fight-order-to-move-out-of-pacifica-apartments/1174295/
+Arch Simpson The ones in the middle (where the HUGE chunk falls off) were condemned years ago. They are uninhabited. The one on the far left with people.. they were condemned on 1/25. Many have moved or are moving out. Some are not.
Rent is probably pretty cheap for those ocean views.
Arch Simpson 'cos they want to xperience the thrill of a house rollercoaster 😂
It's been condemned but some people don't value their own life...they rather take the chances the ocean will somehow build the cliff back up
That's what I call living on the Edge!!!
Right on the Line 🙈😁
they just love the view of the sea at the top
@@mikerivers695 FACT MATE xD hehehehehe
lol
Ya um I couldn't sleep there not knowing if ill wake up falling off a cliff
While watching this, I just can’t help but to imagine how absolutely stunning the land would be if there weren’t any buildings on it.
There is enough cliffs to appreciate out there with no buildings. My problem with constructions of this kind, in privileged nature location, is when they build ugly and shitty architecture that does not in any way complement the nature. You look at certain locations like Santorini, Azenhas do Mar, Cinque Terre and Ronda and you will see the beauty when man builds over nature and makes use of it.
@@euclois yes those apartments look really ghetto
Never fear; won’t be long now that there won’t be.
Esplanade Avenue in Pacifica. Those apartments 'on the edge' were vacated some time earlier and the ones still occupied shortly after this drone footage. All have since been torn down - nobody lost their lives.
So all of them are torn down now?! I'm shocked people were living there with that going on
Were they torn down by the ocean or by a normal way?
I just looked at google earth, it looks like the ocean is continuing to eat away at those cliffs.
@@lukez9721 Torn down normal way, city paid for it.
@@lightowl4345 Always has and always will.
What amazes me is that most of these apartments are still occupied. Gawd how could you sleep at night? This part of the landscape sits on the Ring of Fire, that threatens San Francisco with earthquakes. So as the plateau is being pushed up by plate tectonics that moves clockwise and submerges at the same time, the coastline stability is undermined and flakes apart. The ocean only helps it along. It would be happening anyway. I guess on a positive note, it means that there is not friction buildup due to resistance of movements with plate tectonic activity and therefore a huge earthquake of the magnitude experienced in San Francisco over one hundred years ago, is less likely to happen. Wow. Credit to the author for having captured it on camera. Phenomenal.
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Calm and soothing just to listen to. It never ceases to amaze me how many times homes/businesses are demolished simply from the inevitable. Most people never learn. Plain to see that, just look at the people who are walking around right above the ground that is crumbling.
Time waits for no one
Not the brightest people.
I lived in an apartment down from those, the last one before a stretch of beach above the pier. I watched the pier being built and sadly, saw a helicopter go into the drink when they were building the pier. I used to climb down the cliff in Pacifica to run on the beach every morning. But that was before they evacuated a lot of those dwellings on the cliffs, but I heard about it. I moved maybe 5 hears later, down to my home in Montara just below Devil's Slide in about 1975 or so, and knew about the erosion; one house on the cliff lost about 30 feet of frontage, but I moved away from the area before it was really bad for those residents on the cliff above Pacifica. I wonder of those buildings have fallen down by now! I moved two states away 20 years ago, to the mountains and I miss the ocean but love the snow!
How the hell were these people not evacuated when the ground literally started sliding out from under them?
Why should they be evacuated? They are adults that can see what is happening. It's up to them to move.
@@vodkarage8227 Unfortunately the Government has a duty to protect stupid people from themselves.
The “ground literally started sliding out from them” for more than 50 years. I lived there in the 70’s. They could’ve moved when the edge was 10 yards away with plenty of time to do it. This video makes you think this happened in months or days. It took decades and they knew full well it was coming.
No one living there
@@bravomasterchief I mean you could see the concrete, that looked like 50 year old concrete, maybe older, and then the boulder break water as a second attempt. The video doesn’t explain anything, it just shows what’s happening now, or rather 5 years ago.
“Well honey, we won’t be needing the lawn mower anymore, go ahead and pawn it!”
th-cam.com/video/L1B6x12_G6g/w-d-xo.html .,
now listen you little demon-
At around 4:30 you can see the cliffs falling down on the right while on the left there is a guy casually standing outside on the second floor. Holy shit, I would be out of there as soon as I can.
+Fragenzeichenplatte "as soon as I could", NOT "can". Your Welcome.
+Dareis Nogod No, you're welcome.
+mysticheadlice No, he's not.
+Fragenzeichenplatte ...and further along, there are people standing on terraces that have already begun to collapse. There is no accounting for dumb.
+Fragenzeichenplatte He was probably more worried about the drone catching him smoking something illegal rather than the crumbling cliffs.
"Hey! Let's build on a cliff of semi-compacted alluvial soil instead of bedrock and see what happens!"
🤣🤣🤣
A few drops super glue here and there will help.
a-who-vial?
Apperently nothing for like 60 years.
The same thing has been going on down south in Malibu, Big Sur, etc. ever since stupid people built houses on compacted sand for a view of the ocean, then wanted the taxpayer to pay for their house sliding into the ocean! Nothing new to see here, folks!
The people across the street will soon have water front property
Advocatus Diaboli muh sooner than that. Once those apartments are gone, id double.my money on the ocean view
It'll be great while it lasts...
The big pile of rocks seems to be helping. The cement retaining wall by the orange houses is foolhardy as it will collapse once the sand beneath it fails. I think the second row of houses will be saved because all the cement foundations, refrigerators and washing machines from the first line of failed apartments will add to the big pile of rocks.
Jerry Smitherson I'd be selling right about Yesterday LOL
Yea, but Just for a couple of years
This is what happens when people think they can ignore mother nature and do whatever they want. Like building on a delta and then wondering why it floods so bad. A little common sense would go a long way
+Dan Underwood - Yes, I was completely surprised. I was thinking to myself that surely no-one would be living in those dwellings given the state of the ground beneath them. And then when the camera zoomed in toward the patio areas, and SHOWING people in there, I thought I was imagining seeing it.
i hope as a good human being u should have show this footage to the people that lives in there otherwise u are just another lurkers that doesn't care about people
+joan Alonso The most recent news article states that the people living there know the risks, they know the building has been condemned and they are being ordered to move out, but they are STILL not willing to move out.
+Dan Underwood I know right. It's kind of obvious that it would get destroyed sooner or later.
it's America... i've spoken
Nuts. Those houses look quite modern. What kind of developer builds so close to a cliff that's pretty much made of dirt? What kind of planning authority zones it? What kind of insurance company underwrites it? What kind of homeowner buys it? Everyone has taken leave of their senses...
And I've just realised - the houses aren't evacuated. Seems that the owners have a death-wish too!
can't believe ppl still live there
G.ladylovespurple is that the Atlantic Ocean???
@@anthonyagnelneri4076 dude, If it's California...
G.ladylovespurple
Your Joking Right! 😳
Anthony Agnelneri serious bloody erosion if it is 😂. Buy a map, or try this new thing called google maps.
Thanks for sharing this. My Fifth Grade students and I are currently studying erosion right now. I will definitely share this with them as well as the other Fifth Grade teachers!
please teach Your students about horrible lots of rubbish going into the sea!
poor fishes!
I lived on Esplanade twice, back in the 80's and 90's. For a total of around 15 yrs. Always a large expanse of sand protecting the cliffs down by the beach . In fact the issue for the apartments at the edge of the cliff here was the erosion from the street side towards the ocean during the winter causing erosion, not the ocean waves hitting the sandstone cliffs, all the rain water funneled thru PVC pipes .
Also there were large expanses of ice plant growing from these apartment towards the edges of the cliff, takes a long time for that much surface coverage. Plus all these apartments had enough space for a patio and BBQ set up.
However it all went to hell after San Francisco built the huge sewage outfall pipe off Ocean Beach next the the San Francisco zoo.
After the huge pipe was put in, the beach sand slowly depleted , normal winter beach erosion but the usual influx/replenishment of sand in the summer stopped completely.
Slowly each year the beach area has gotten smaller and smaller until the winter waves started hitting the base of the cliffs directly.
90% of the beach sand is now gone, actually dangerous to walk on now during high tides.
Where it shows in the video of waves hitting the boulder pile below the cliff I was easily able to walk on year around, sometimes you could could walk to the Pacifica pier, not anymore.
You'd think the government would be able to build some kind of barrier wall to prevent this erosion. This is third-world levels of incompetence.
@@thechloromancer3310 They did build a barrier of huge rock boulders but only after the massive cliff erosion had started.
An extremely costly as well as dangerous project working under a crumbling cliff and a pounding surf zone close by.
Little or no access for heavy construction equipment to be brought in to the base of the cliff added to the complications and expense. No idea how long the environmental impact report took...
@Schlomo Baconberg Compelling argument. With such skills, you are now ready to graduate to grade 2.
@Schlomo Baconberg strange directive to give to someone who had not commented for over a week. Seek help.
@Schlomo Baconberg ... and I don't live by yours.
In the late 80's early 90's I live near Santa Cruz. Somewhere between Santa Cruz and Davenport on the coastal hwy there was this really cool point. A path lead to the very tip where you could sit. You had a nearly 360 degree view of the ocean. There was 1 rebar piled into the ground so those feint of heart could hold on to for comfort. About 15 years ago I went back to that spot. It was completely gone. Washed away.
Selling nice home in Pacifica California only seconds to Beach , don't let this one slid away hurry ! 🏄
Now that's funny
any bidders? Going, going....gone! :)
Yes literally seconds to the beach!
"...seconds to the beach". Straight down!
Thanks for the knee slap dad humor.
I remember couple of years back looking for apartments there in background. Expensive and possibility of waking up in pacific
The sound of the waves is so soothing.
I am sure it sooths also the condos owner's nerves . They definitely can use some soothing there
Great footage man. Not that I want that building to go down... it eventually will... I hope there's footage of that when it happens... Cheers
+Chuck Reynolds Liveleak for that.
+Chuck Reynolds When those buildings fall.They will pull all the electric cables and water pipes in LA county down into the ocean with them.A lot of people are going to be left without electricity and water as a result.Not much of a result, if you ask me.
Moor Letoh ....um... "in LA county"? You realize this footage is from up near San Francisco right?
But yeah i'm sure there are some cables and stuff under those buildings... not a good situation but has nothing to do with LA county bud.
+Moor Letoh - LMAO.
+Moor Letoh this is in San Mateo County, just south of San Francisco.
how sad to see black tarps flapping in wind, that someone hoped a tarp would stop erosion below. More of this to come.
The wise man builds his house upon the rock.
+1
Exactly
CarolSue Me , that was my thought too 👍
The rocks are crying out...
This guy gets it.
now that is wat i call living life on the edge.... 👍👍
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Thank you. I lived nearby in Portola Valley and had friends in Pacifica. Their apartment was far from the ocean in 1985.
After seeing this I wouldn't even want to be walking on that sidewalk.
I was thinking the same thing
Omg I'm SHOCKED people were LIVING there!!! I'm curious what this looks like on 2019 , since it said this was taken in 2016....are they gone?!
Check it here. th-cam.com/video/med9Qrw_xQI/w-d-xo.html
All those buildings in the edge have been bulldozed and removed, only the concrete foundations remain
All eaten by sharks - every one of them - sad.
OH Yes the Buildings in Back are now in the Very Front Once More !!!
When those storms roll in off the Pacific they slam those raindrops into the side of those cliffs. Gulls pick away at them to nest. Afternoon sun dries it out only to have marine layer moisten it up again.
Monterey California too. Years ago I was house hunting and went to a townhouse complex. The RE agent was inside to greet whoever showed up. I was thinking if I had money to throw away, I would not mind buying it, It was a matter of the whole complex will be submerged in the water. The front row of houses already were sitting concrete reinforcers! It was scary to me. But I am sure some do not mind at all; honey, the view is spectacular!!
Portions of Highway 1 will be submerged in water too, given some years. It already happened. Highway 1 was not so close to the ocean decades ago.
This was happening 30 years ago when I lived there and I'm sure for millennia before that. Don't build your house on a cliff side folks. Unless the beauty calls to you and you ACCEPT there's a good chance you'll lose your house some day.
More like lose your life
Coastal erosion is nothing new, its been going on for generations yet these home owners are shocked its happening to them. If you want a sea view house buy one built on solid rock cliffs not clay and sand.
It always astonishes me that people have known that the sea has eroded the land for millions of years, but they still build houses on cliff tops and then complain when they are washed away.
Excellent video! Good piloting, good photography, good timing! A vivid demonstration of why you should not build on cliffs near the ocean.
So how's that going in 2022?
i came here to watch the whole building fall to water and get washed away i am now dissapointed
+RandomMcGameplay You'd better subscribe or else you'll be really disappointed.
+Duncan Sinfield There you go :)
+Duncan Sinfield So you're saying that youre gonna film it when it falls? :)
Nucxy yes from my understanding i subbed :D
+RandomMcGameplay Haha me 2!
The land is just sand and mud that was laid in by a giant wave all at once.
I like that your drone is so quiet! You can hear the waves and the animals very well!! Great footage, too!
You do realize the sounds you hear are just beach sounds added to the video so you don’t just hear the buzzing of the drone🤦🏻♂️
tear down and remove every stupid building along the coast.. the ocean has the right of way..
@I speak The truth I hear ya,, and I'm ignoring them right now,, just focusing on what would allow the coastline to go back to being clear of all the crap buildings.. I remember that particular coastline before the buildings
@@WhirledPeasFursure well then let the ocean make its way
WhirledPeasFursure Brilliant!
No don't remove them, All the building rubble will make a good break water wall.
WhirledPeasFursure the ocean will take the “right of way”.
Those folks that are still in the building @4:36 reminds me of the people that try and pet buffalos.
We've got a housing tract out here in Henderson, NV.. It's being built on the unlined settling ponds of a long gone chemical plant. You're talking of around 40 years of who knows what dumped out there soaking into the ground. 3 companies went bust trying to get around that. The last spent 6+ months scraping off a layer of that dirt, treating it, and using it to grade pads for housing. The tract is called "Cadence". I used to ask workers and new homeowners if they knew what their houses were being built on, not many, if any, knew. I joked with them that I wanted a picture of the first 3 eyed Koi in their fish pond. It's just a guess, but, I'm thinking that, that's going to be a sequel to "Aaron Brockovich".
Yea this puts me in mind of the old Movie called Poltergeist, By the way i think Aaron might might be retired by Now !!! But if it were me, i would look for property in another Area !!! Good Luck !!!
Might want to take a Google at 'Love Canal' This sounds just like it.
Didn't Jesus warn us on building on sandy ground?
LOL, very true.
Yes Very true apparently people don't listen
@Its_an_Invasion_LowInfo_Votees yeah, that 6.3in rise since 1900 is monstrous...
@Its_an_Invasion_LowInfo_Votees Who is ours? You should seek anger management, my brain is not dead, not even sick.
Did Jesus own a home?
That s liquefaction, not erosion. The constant earthquakes have sifted the water table across the whole clif- it's all saturated.
Excellent perspectives I could see the whole situation from watching the individual people on their back porches to seeing down the entire coast. This was great!
At least they don't have to mow the back yard anymore.
Boxhawk you are sick
Coastal erosion is not a problem, it is completely normal. Building in such a place is insanity.
The view just keeps getting better and better doesnt it.
WTF are people doing in those homes - those could go any time
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They’re being airheads.
Man, that ocean is a beast. Can you imagine trying to fight it? She's relentless, rarely calms and mostly rages. She's a super heavy weight with a perfect record. She's never lost to a ship or continent. Boulders are pebbles and mountains are stepping stones. Stay back - don't temp her or challenge her. She will crush you!!
Give it enough time, the oceans will erode everything. Even solid rock, though of course rock will take longer than sand.
As these residents property taxes continue to rise.
GOOD. Those taxes pay for the distraction the city has to undertake to shore up these idiotic choices in real estate development.
Headlines in the California Daily; Property taxes rise as property continues to falls.
@@lohphat ...It's not the realestate devlopers fault...it's the governing body that gave the approval to build there, they should be the ones held liable
@@harryberry474 Developers have so much to gain that they have the regulatory departments in their pockets. Low income housing isn’t profitable so even if mandated the developers always weasel out of the obligation. Campaign donations are a powerful drug.
@@lohphat ...Exactly, that's why the regulators should be held accountable and have proof they haven't taken (essentially bribes) to approve these questionable developments
4:22 whaaaaat ??? why the hell do these people stay there ??? car parked in the street, people walking on the street ?!
Rolling ocean, cliffs eroding, houses tumbling. Real estate broker: "I've got a place with a great ocean view"
Now THAT'S ocean front property.
They need make floating homes on the ocean no property tax to pay every year its free live on.
" And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
The Pacific Ocean is a relentless force of nature, that will continue to erode those bluffs until they are totally decimated by the destructive power of those waves to destroy them with each wave crash that hits them.
Dang that’s the verse I was looking for!
@@Ashley-ro4xz Matthew 7:24-27 less we forget. Very sound advise just ask any building contractor in the state
i would never build that close to edge i would want at least a thousand feet of backyard but i would test the soil before building especially since
the earth in general is going through so much dramatic change nothing is forever
This is just one example of why building code should prohibit any construction within 50 to 100 yards of the ocean.......same thing in the carolinas and anywhere along the coastline.........makes about as much sense as building on the side of an active volcano.
+Earl Ismyname ---- Initially they were. This is erosion over time.
+Earl Ismyname Actually the San Andreas Fault runs directly under those homes. That's how the cliff was formed in the first place. So doubly stupid of them.
The buildings are about 70 years old.
Earl Ismyname ...building code? Let's not add not more regulation, rather let's use more common sense.
Many do not know that. They don't study up on that land BEFORE moving in. It's the view & opportunity to live that scene.
This is what mother nature balancing herself and teaching us the life lessons.
the cliff face clearly shows the layers of loose sediments laid down during The Flood 4,350 years ago.
@Mighty Tone Hi, All around the world.
Look at old cowboy films,
look at Iraq-Iran battle footage,
look at WW2 Tunisian desert war between UK, Italy, Germans,
look at Spaghetti WW2 battle films shot in Africa - there was a lot of these on UK tv recently - all Italian actors pretending to be Americans fighting Germans. Rubbish plot and lipsynch all wrong but the scenery was definietly Flood sediments,
Look at film of Australian mountains and scenery,
I have lived in hilly part of West Yorkshire, UK all my life and travelled up many rail and road cuttings through the hill that all show the many layers.
Geologists desperately try to claim teh layers are due to tectonic plates climbing over each other but the Newtonian Fizziks make that impossible.
@Mighty Tone Here a Wiki link to lots of the Spaghetti war films.
This video reminds me of one I'd seen either 2017 or 2018 (I think) of a news report of a man who, if I remember correctly lived in PEI Canada, talked to a reporter about how outside his home when he was a little boy he'd go and play in the field that was behind his house. Play baseball I think he said and that the ocean was some distance away. Well now all grown up and probably in his late 50s or early 60s he can now just stand on his porch and see the ocean maybe 30 feet away from his house. That whole field gone!
I'm sure if someone can find the video they can correct any distance I've mistaken but like this video it makes me sad that this is happening.
I believe the gentleman said he could get a couple of years more before he'd have to move. Imagine visiting your childhood home wearing scuba gear!?! It now being 2019 I wonder if he's moved yet or even still alive.
It would appear that building your house upon the sand really is a bad idea. It must really bother the rich people who wanted to keep the rest of us from ever seeing the ocean.
But you can walk down to the actual beach, so that's not even a valid accusation.
That's funny. They're not even on the beach.
EROSION HAS BEEN HAPPENING SINCE THE START OF TIME STOP BUILDING ON THE EDGE DA
It wasn’t the edge when they were built.
would like to see how it is now 2020 the houses are all still there
The coasts around the world are not just eroding ! The sea level is rising exponentially over time. How many ice cubes can you drop in a half full glass of water before it over flows....... Think ! Point of view, don’t see land getting smaller look at the ocean getting bigger.
Pretty sad those houses are gonna go. Eventually the city will build a concrete barrier along the edge to stop the erosion, but not until it reaches that freeway in the background.
No concrete barrier is gonna stop the ocean. L.O.L.
I don’t know what exactly they expected to happen. Only a moron would make a home right in the edge of a sandy cliff
The wind is doing it, not water
@@lukez9721 only a moron would want to buy the home so close to the cliff.
In the words of Jame Marshall Hendrix: "And castles made of sand, crumble to the sea...ahhh...eventually."
Except the inland would soon became the beach. That's what rising sea level did.
martyisabeliever Yup.... timing is everything.
This is not an emergency!! It's proof of the highest levels of arrogance, greed and stupidity. A friend of mine inherited a cottage on the shore of Lake Michigan. It overlooks the lake from a vey steep sandy cliff. The first time I went there we walked out back and the words just blurted out. "Whoa, when is all this gonna end up in the lake"? Well, it and everybody else's homes in that area are now gone. If I, someone of no special or great intelligence can in a flash of obvious insight, look at that sandy cliff face and determine, this aint gonna end well, surely, a group of intelligent individuals could come to the same conclusion. Pretty sure between arrogance, greed and stupidity, greed is the major factor.
Oct. 2018
Have these cliffs eroded to the point where the apts. have fallen?
This was filmed in January 2016. 2 of the buildings were demolished Feb-March 2016. The 3rd building was demolished January 2017.
www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Apartments-in-Pacifica-Get-Demolished-as-Cliffs-Crumble-372004042.html
bronxborn70
Was there any insurance compensation for homeowners???
I know I'm late, but I'm wondering if the weight of the buildings adds to the erosion? I see the trail area doesn't look as eroded. Is love to see current pics of the area.
Also, I read in one of the comments that the waste water outlet seemed to be creating a lot of the issues here, did they find a solution? I would think with real estate prices in that area that this would be a priority to figure out and fix.
No it’s all gone now
th-cam.com/video/hfq-f5YTYYI/w-d-xo.html
Some people that build near volcanos often wonder the same thing.
In Delaware we don't normally see how bad the erosion along the Pacific is Duncan, thank you for the drone footage.
Google Maps street level show all those apartments are no longer there. The people across the street now have a good view of the Pacific.
Whoever can show me where is this place on google map?
@@AeroSmiter 320 Esplanade Ave, 37°37'31.0"N 122°25'31.0"W
@@MrVladimirSP thx
@@MrVladimirSP now many big house are in danger very close to the sea
Got an update vid ?
Should have flown up to apt windows.
In my city we also have cliffs like those and sea erosion has also eaten away a big chunk of land. Some smaller buildings have been lost and what's next is the road. They did build a 'coastal defense' but only time will tell if it's truly effective.
The tenants of the buildings in back are chanting, "Fall Fall fall!". Ocean front coming up🙃
Nice flying! Just saw the footage on the Today Show. Amazing to see! The property values around that area must be tanking... sad to say. The views must be awesome overlooking that cliff I guess people take a big risk to have it.
I live in Milwaukee,WI and this is happening on a smaller scale between Milwaukee and the states southern border due to Lake Michigan. Many homes have been declared unlivable.
Why weren't they evacuated???
STUPID comes to mind
Tenant ordered to vacate: "I have a lot more faith in god than to be worried about this". Well, you're going to meet your maker soon, then.
Husband- "Honey, what happened to our backyard?"
Wife- "It went swimming..."
If the authorities had just removed those condemned buildings, when it was still safe, it would have taken a lot of pressure off the cliff-face and possibly slowed the collapse.
Build on the edge of an unstable cliff, and you don't get to bitch or moan when it falls down.
The cliff was hundreds of feet away when they were built (about 50 years ago).
Another couple centuries and highway 1 will be in the ocean too (seen in the background).
This was built long before it was understood how fast coasts decay.
"This was built long before it was understood how fast coasts decay."
Demonstrably false. Humans have known for thousands of years how coasts work. They wanted to build it close, and now, they are paying the price for that hubris.
Howard Barnett
Wrong, but you get a C for effort.
No bank would finance a long-term loan or an insurance company for that risk.
If you doubt me, try it.
Global warming issue?
Xiao Liu
Natural cyclic climate changes?
When I was a kid in the early 1960s there were parts of the eroded old highway 1 in the middle of the beach about 20 miles south of this scene. It happened decades before the "global warming" boogie man was invented to make money for a few elite.
Normal climate erosion has been going on since the dawn of time.
Sorry, the big bad boogie man does not explain this.
But nice try.
You get a C- for effort.
The government of this country should give contracts to the Indian firms to not only minimize but to stop the soil erosion. Example is marine beach in Mumbai
Curious why there is ocean sound but no drone propeller sound??? That's a mystery!!!!! ;)
Drone is in the air.......microphone is with the operator.
Drone blade sound canceling headphones 😝
LOOKS LIKE AN EXCITING PLACE TO LIVE FOR SURE. RENT'S PROBABLY CHEAP AS WELL.
Es mucha humedad en la tierra y esto hace que se debarate
Can you understand about the First Nations People concerned about abuse of the land and that Mother Earth will not stand for abuse. Here is a prime example of abuse and the retaliation for that abuse. Even with all the large rock mitigation at the bottom of the cliff, the erosion still come from the top, the abuse will not be tolerated.
Amen. Still most people don't listen.
How can 40% of people viewing this video dislike it! That is bizarre. Someone takes the trouble to film, edit, and post a video (ie work and effort) to document and share a thing like this and thousands of people give it a thumbs down? What is wrong with people!
Well, Paul, I've just formed the opinion that some folks by nature need to be negative, find fault, go against the tide (pun not intended, really). If a trend is going in a positive direction, that all too common ilk needs to build their self-esteem by expressing what they believe to be their dissimilitude by opposing popular opinion with an ineffective rating widget. What's the point, of casting negative feedback? If we don't like a video, just leave, don't waste the time watching an entire video and casting that worthless negative "vote."
Maybe it's not the video that they don't like but the erosion and the distress it's causing to people.
@@blingknight1 Exactly what I was thinking. No other explanation makes any sense, really.
It's because all the people living in those houses are about to fall 400 feet to they're deaths. If they manage to escape the houses are going to end up in the sea anyway!
one moment you live at the top, maybe tomorrow at the bottom
Some of the best use of a drone ever.
The people that still live in those buildings have to be crazy.
Its a CALLI THING
its like one of those coin pushing machines you find near the coast.
This was 6 years ago! I wonder what it looks like now?
When this happened I was on a Californian road trip and after seeing this on a news clip went over to have a look after discovering all of the apartments were fenced off for safety reasons As we were looking through the gap beween the apartments we were about to leave when a bloke came out of the right hand front door. We asked him if we could enter his apartment to see the remains of his back lot only to be told we couldn’t because his “Wife was asleep! inside”
Uh, B Street it's your turn to be ocean front since A street is now gone.
Time and pressure.
Can build mountains, or tear them down.
These buildings have been torn down. Google maps street view.
Either that or all those people would of died like dumb asses
@@sosweetbaby4 what else would you expect from California Commies/Demoncraps,,,,,
Why don't they tear the building's down so that all that garbage doesn't go into the Ocean?
Thinking same - and people still living there ? wow
Well said!
I was gonna say that too but you can see that people literally are still living there which is crazy too
Sadly it's probably cheaper to let it fall in the ocean. Man doesn't care about the environment and that won't change until the environment finally kills us off.
Either it's cheaper to just let it fall in, or it's too dangerous to bring the necessary machinery that close to the edge. If they did that, it could just trigger the collapse early and while lots of people are there