Watch: Pacifica Coastal Erosion Jan 14 2024
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Pacifica After The Storm
Pacifica Coastal Erosion 1.14.2024
The Pacifica Pier will continue to close for another 3 weeks from January 5th, 2024 through January 26th, 2024 due to damage from the recent storms. A structural analysis will need to be performed after swells that are projected for the weekend of January 6th and 7th, 2024.
In parts of the Bay Area, officials have already retreated from some parts of the coast, removing homes from cliffs that have eroded and areas that have flooded. San Francisco is taking steps to move the Great Highway away from Ocean Beach because erosion is eating away at the earth beneath it. Houses and apartments in Pacifica, south of the city, were declared uninhabitable as cliffs that supported them gave way to erosion.
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Thank you so much for your work to document Pacifica's coastal changes. I have shared your video with out City Manager. We have a lot of hard work ahead of us to plan for the inevitable, and your work is so helpful.
Awesome, thank you!
Yeah, better skyrocket those assessments before the city falls into the ocean.
bring in concrete rubble and rock
Those who build in the desert can expect a hard time finding water.
Those who build on a flood plain can expect frequent water intrusion.
Those who build in a hurricane zone can expect to build a new home possibly once a year.
Those who build right on the edge of a cliff can expect to someday find their home at the bottom of the cliff.
But the fools keep doing it!
Back in the day the 70s hard to believe but where the long fence at the beginning is where the CLIFFS were. That little dock was DOWN BELOW. The ocean was at least 5 MILES OUT. You could walk for half an hour then reach the shore. Yes. I used to take my 2 year old when my ex left and we went to the MOUNTAINS AT 8:10. Sitting there along the plants etc and hang gliders would take off at the cliff. The concrete pad was where my friend lived in those apts.
She had a BACKYAED and then u look DOWN THE HUGE CLIFFS. The people across the street did not have an ocean view but she did.
I can't believe since 1979 this would happen. The only time the ocean would hit the cliff was ONCE A MONTH at high tide. Then the waves would be way out again.
The cliffs are gone! The ocean has risen so high. The pristine beach that you see from there to Santa Cruz and beyond was sandy, sparkling, and soft and deep. You can have scaly feet, walk 10 minutes and your feet would be softer than a baby's butt.
The oil spill u see was around 1972. Instantly our beach was covered in oil. Its still black. The only thing that would SOME of the oil out of seabirds was Dawn dishwashing liquid. Thats why there are ducks on the bottle.
No more seaguls, pelicans and other birds. They left. No fish in the ocean. I saw seagulls HERE IN SACRAMENTO!!! THEY ARE OCEAN BiRDS. What does that tell u when an ocean bird comes inland for fuud! O M G ITS ALL GONE. GONE. 😢😢😢😢😢
Most of these weren’t build on the edge of a cliff. They were hundreds of feet away. The cliffs have eroded that much!
@@videorocketzmillar007milla5 Little less drama, maybe? Seagulls aren't *just* ocean birds. We see them inland up here in Michigan, 3 hours away from the lakes. They come for the dumps and the dearth of fast food restaurants where the snacks are just laying around for the taking. I was out there driving through most of California not long ago, plenty of pelicans, sea lions, otters and seagulls near the shore. We went pretty far in to Merced, and guess what? SEAGULLS.
Also, Dawn didn't become known for cleaning oil off wildlife until the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989, in Alaska. There were no major spills in California in '72.
You should get out more, turn off the Fox News and actually watch and listen to the world around you, because nobody really pays attention to people ranting when they're just making crap up and CAPITALIZING things at random.
@@weaselsworld Regarding seagulls, I saw them along US-2 in North Dakota on a road trip in 2015.
I hope everyone takes time to watch all the videos you have captured over the years. The coast erosion is overwhelming when you watch them back to back. Beautiful work. Thank you.
Yes, it's been occurirng for eons. How do you think these cliffs were created. It's time to quit blamming the "boogyman" when it's mankind that built there.
Beautiful area. Sad to see the homes being destroyed.
Thank you so much. I used to live on Esplanade in Pacifica. 1982. My apartment building is almost in the ocean. So sad. I loved living there.
It was good to get out and fly after a year off.
I lived on Esplanade at the tail end of the 1990s. The park that was in front of my apartment complex is almost gone, and it was a big one with wooden stairs down to the beach. Someday my building will be gone, too. Lots of memories there -- to remain memories.
I myself lived with my Mom on 105 Esplanade from 1980-1983. The winter of ‘82 was the time of torrential rains if I’m not mistaken?
When I lived on Whidbey Island, Washington back in 1973, I saw a posting for a land development proposal on a high, western facing bluff that was covered in woods and ferns taller than a man. I also observed that about 4 feet of bluff had fallen away in the preceding winter. What folly, I thought. I haven't been by that particular spot to see what 50 winters have dealt it, but at Cliffside Park at the Naval Station just north of there the huge wind-twisted evergreens that used to sit atop the bluff have slid down to beach level. We humans! What more can one say?
and that's not even the open ocean... Pacifica gets that crazy direct pacific stuff and I've lived in both places and Pacifica will be gone in 50 years
I lived in Pacifica from 1975 to 1979. Spent most of my summers fishing on the pier, hiking the foothills and going to the dollar theater. The coastal erosion was also a major problem back then too.
The "problem" was people building on sand cliffs knowing full well that the northern California coast is eroding and exactly how fast. Even if the government was determined to stop it, they would fail and nobody should be surprised.
@@MelindaGreen
I agree.
If you look at what is eroding out it's typically round rock which means it was once beachfront.
@@thesolarsailor I remember there used to be a beach under the pier. The water line was around the fourth pylon from the shore and the sand wasn't nearly as dark as it is now. We had a class field trip to the cliffs once and the teacher showed us an abandoned house that was partially hanging over the beach below. It's definitely a lapse in wisdom if you build your house on sand.
If that was recorded yesterday, there was a high tide of +8 ft
Just saying that because how we vote won't change this 'problem'
Unless our politicians are going to tax us to remove the moon from orbit.
I have watched the land erode in a few places in the Puget Sound area, The Strait of Jaun de Fuca etc. in Washington since I was a kid. I absolutely love the sea/beach but you couldn't give me a dwelling next to a body of water!
Mother Nature eventually takes it back.
Thank You for this stunning footage.
I took pictures every spring at the Dungeness SPit until last year when it had eroded so much I couldn’t get near the previous walkways. All washed away.
@@ABirdWoman Did you see this week's wind and wave damage on Whidbey Island? Dozens of million+ $ homes now look uninhabitable. It's one of my favorite kiteboarding beaches. Sunset Beach
I come from the East Coast of England where erosion has been happening for hundreds of years. You can't build next to the sea and expect your house or business to be there in 20, 15, even 5 years. Coastlines perpetually change and no amount of money will prevent it. Shore up one area and the sea will take another. Man's ego to live where he chooses is nothing compared to the power of Nature. The ocean will claim Pacifica just like many other towns and cities that now lay on the seabed.
Californians are known more for their greed and hubris than their wisdom.
What if I build my home using stainless steel posts anchored deep into the earth to hold my home in the air?
Beautiful footage :-). And it will be beautiful after those homes have washed into the sea.
I think so too!
Sixty years ago, I was born in the bay area. My parents lived in Pacifica, so I grew up there. My dad would later buy a property at the end of the pier. I used to fish with him off that monstrosity. Twenty years ago, I moved to the Midwest, and five years later, he passed away. We sold the property and I see it is now remodeled. Thanks for the memories.
It’s uncanny how similar Pacifica looks to the south Devon coastal towns of England. 400 years ago when the Mayflower sailed from Plymouth there and the pilgrim father’s descendants continued to explore westward, I wonder if they had any idea their progeny would recreate their original home so perfectly, at the far western edge of the new world.
Hi funkydozer, hate to be pedantic but about half of Devon's south coastline is comprised of granite so is not subject to the scale of the erosion we see in this very interesting video. Also, I'm not sure that many of the Pilgrims came from this part of the world as they originally set sail from Rotherhithe in London and probably would not have put into port at Plymouth at all if the two ships had not suffered storm damage sailing down the channel.
@@vinbar35 A lot of the Jurassic cost is on the move ..Charmouth. Sidmouth etc
@@fletch61 That part of the coast eastwards through Dorset is certainly more susceptible to erosion that's for sure.
The impermanence of it all really hits home. Nicely done!
Really hitting home for sure literally.
So beautiful. The lesson is to appreciate the changing beauty but not try to OWN it.
I built the white stucco house on the corner for my mother. There are 44 concrete piers under that house! 200 yards of concrete total. 7 sac mix, schedule 60, 5/8 rebar. That house will be the last one standing.
Despite how terrible the erosion is for the people living there, the view of nature in your videos is beautiful.
Lived here and worked here, i delivered mail to that entire area, i delivered to homes and apts. that were condemned, those empty lots you see. I traveled the old coast hwy when homes were falling into the sea, frightful road, before the new hwy 1 . 1952. Thank you for a trip down memory lane.
Marvelous videos ....
It's incredible just how much of that segment of coast has disappeared along with the homes and whole apartment blocks. So sad for those who lost their homes. It's a beautiful place but it looks like it's ancient sand dunes or very soft rock so very vulnerable to erosion.
Bingo. 100%.
Wow! I lived in Pacifica back in the 90s and the coastline has changed so much!
In the struggle between land and sea…the sea will always win…
Mobile home neighborhood looked like it had the strongest rock seawall built. Amazing!❤😊
I think so too!
Brings to mind a statement I once heard from a beachfront property owner; "If you insist on living on the water, eventually you will end up with your house in the water".
I lived in Pacifica for 6 years in the 1960's, the coast was eroding then too.
The coast has been eroding for 1,000,000+ years.
City planners need to re-evaluate the next stage of this erosion issue. A “step back” or set back of 300-1000 yards. Rebuild roads, infrastructure. Stop all development beyond this point. Condemn properties. Sad, but a mature decision.
When the properties were built, they were built much farther back than you are suggesting. Anything that's rebuilt will be consumed eventually by the ocean.
2 bad captain obvious retired
Simply breathtaking film. Just a magnificent coast line! 🎉
beautiful and smooth drone flight and camera work!
Gorgeous. I put my arms out and made believe I was flying over the beaches, and now feel soooo peaceful. It’s a shame, with that beautiful coastline, there’s no one on the beach and no way to get down there. I guess it’s dangerous where the water comes all the way to the cliff. Thank you.
Dude have you been to the Bay Area? In Pacifica it’s cold most of the time. Even at the height of summer. 55-65 is normal with wind and fog
Thank you for doing this update! I have been so hoping for more. At first I wasn't sure it was the same place as you started from the other end. 😊 If you decide to do another one this year, please could you start from where you ended and go back over the same area? But again thank you. Oh one last thing, the music was perfect for this video.
Coastal erosion = mother nature continually proving that she is in charge and that humans still have not learned the lesson. Hard to sympathize when home/land owners ignored the warnings. What a price to pay for living next to such beauty.
CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL!
It's not so much the years -- rather it is the increasingly frequent storm surges . Check again in a few months or a few years.
It is pretty incredible to see this. Your use of technology and obvious artistry are magic.💯🙏
Love this, thank you. I’ve been fascinated by this erosion since I first found out about it several years ago.
I always wonder how much longer the bluffs would have stayed there if humans hadn’t moved in
Good you are posting that again.
More to come!
I love your videos of Pacifica and the erosion. Beautiful. Calming. Thank you.❤
Thank you. I really enjoy these videos. Please keep making these. 🤙🏾
You got it!
WOW... thank you ever so much for the update. It's so scary to see the dramatic changes but with mother nature it's the inevitable and theres nothing anyone nor anything can do to stop her. 😨😨😨😨 We are literally seeing the negative repercussions of our human actions against her and we're definitely paying the price for our mistakes.
Incredibly intelligent to build structures on the edge of a cliff... .
Especially when they are made of sand!
Lived in Pacifica in 1967 on Paloma st Loved it!
Thank you for your videos over the years. Very well made and informative.
I have alwayd loved the coast so sorry for all their lost. May God Bless You and Keep You SAFE.😊
It just breaks my heart to see this happening. It was not like this in the 70’s. I’m praying for everyone there.
Wow, fantastic vid! Thank you.
Thank you too!
Thank you for the update.
Reminds of my country England, so sad, but the sea is majestic.
Beautiful and cool. Nature is exciting and fun and always changing.
I'm very happy having a lake front property.
Thanks for the update. Your work is amazing!!
Much appreciated!
Fascinating to watch this erosion… stay safe everyone
There are also places in Great Britain that have been swallowed up by the sea. People had to leave their homes and they were demolished before the next storm would have done it. Living on the coast means wonderful views, but only until the sea swallows the place up.
Very fascinating; thanks for posting.
Glad you enjoyed it
Some incredible footage!
Another great documented capture, well done! Mike
Many thanks, Al!
Nice overview as always. That break that let in the sun at the end, very fine. Though I doubt there will be any breaks for the coast until the surf finds a bed rock. Do you know where the coastal geologists have scribed their green lines or is it only "oh, your fine there for perhaps a hundred years"?
There seem to be a few brief hesitations in your flight that seem intended to synchronize the drone to the incoming wave, am I imagining that or are you keeping to pace?
We appreciate your work Many Thanks
I just drove through this area and these road last month. I didn't know such erosion problem. I moved to my ocean front flat/apartment near Tokoyo/Yokohama in Japan last year. Seaside erosion is common problem in US, Japan, Europe and other countries. I understood possible danger of Tsunami in Japan when I bought it. I chose my near future retired life with beautiful pacific ocean view than possible tsunami danger.
Just an awesome video. Thank you for posting it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Beautiful music to perfectly match the amazing and saddening views. Nature takes what's hers and there is nothing man can do to stop it... Been happening since the dawn and will continue long after man is gone and forgotten.
Amazing video! Beautiful scenery. Music was good, too. Thank you!
Thank you very much!
Wow, and people act like this is something new, slow or fast this is a continuing occurrence that has been going on for time immemorial so why are people so surprised that at some point their cliffside homes start falling into the ocean. I was born and raised in the Bay Area and have lived in California most of my life and have seen this time and time again over the years.
It does break your heart to see it. I imagine what is was like in the 60’s thru 90’s. To have a place on the ocean.
Beautiful views
Wow good Great video.👍
Excellent vdo.
Im going to watch your other vids.
Keep going
Thank you so much 🙂
Ponte Vedra beach (south of Jax Beach) is experiencing similar. While it is sand dunes instead of cliffs, w mega-mansions instead of apartments and regular houses, the whole stretch is a storm or two away from falling into the ocean.
Wow, that is insane to see this happening to the coast.
I love being here though with my family as we drive over Sharp Parks into Pacifica from South San Francisco.
Great place to be.
Wow! This is powerful!
When you choose to live on the edge of water (coast, river, creek, lake) don't act surprised if you get wet one day!
And to think..the ocean was a mile away not too long ago
That was stunningly beautiful. May I ask how far the trek was? The more congested areas need to take a hint from the folks in the ending part of the video who had foliage growing on their embankments.
X bloc plus by Delta Marine kind of protection guarding against tsunami and lifesaver for coastal communities etc…friendly environment … I saw it especially in the Netherland the quest for the future never ends👍 hope our beaches and people home get protected 🙏
Mother nature is reclaiming some of her land back I guess.
Amazing drone footage!!
Glad you liked it!
The Japanese have the right attitude: all homes are temporary, don’t get attached and don’t plan to pass it on. Chances are it won’t last, Mother Nature always wins.
I love this music
Is the RV park totally gone? I worked on its construction in the early 1980’s. I’ve seen videos where it’s been partially washed away by the surf.
Thank you for showing and reminding us just how strong mother nature is, could be worse could be living in Iceland right now sitting right on top of molten lava another case of Murphys Law.
Geology , the study of pressure and time . - Shawshank redemption
I think these videos of costal erosion and boarded up luxury homes gives us not a glimpse but a large picture view of the future! Weather we're strong or weak at heart everyone should be watching these videos because it shows us a barefaced truth about what we've done to our planet weather we're living in these situations or not! The rising of rhe ocean levels will eventually affect us all and that is imminent!
You can only postpone for so long what's inevitable, mother nature will eventually take back what belongs to her.
Mother Nature takes back what's hers.
Excellant work.
Thank you so much 😀
i really hate to say this but anyone living this near the coast is living on borrowed time. mother nature will succeed. 😔
Mother Nature always wins!
The Fall (literally) Of Western (edge) Civilization Set To Beautiful Music nicely done
Mother Nature Always wins, Only a matter of time.
Every wave takes a little bit of sand and washes it out to sea. Very beautiful, but living that close would make me a little nervous.
Mother Nature will cleanse and take back what is rightfully hers if people don’t take care of her and each other and we haven’t done a good job of putting her first or truly loving each other more. 😢😢
Should never have allowed houses there to begin with.
Greed and egoism provide grounds for stupidity. Humans: Look, I have a house on a bluff. Mother nature: Look, you had a house on a bluff.
'how's that backyard looking...?'...'oh, I sea'...
The apartment (condo ?) building at 07:40 looks perilous.
Some property owners do not bother to place break water rocks and pay the price. They are also causing damage to adjacent land.
Are you from Pacifica or did you ever live there? Just curious.
Mother nature:
"I am more powerful than you"
Some people hold on to the bitter end.
What is up with all the cars parked on that lot about 4 mins and 18 seconds into the video?
mechanic shop?
They are new for me too. Not good. They will end up on the beach.
1. Sea rise. 2. Land or plate subsidence. 3. Erratic weather.
Mother Nature taking the beauty of the California coast back. It will be so much nicer when all the McMansions are driftwood.
Whenever “hardening” of the coastline occurs, expect an acceleration of erosion to occur
So sad for those poor, poor rich folks.
The houses went from being worth millions to zero. They were idiots for building there.
And yet some question why I bought a house 3 houses back when I could have gotten oceanfront for the same price.
It’s one thing to have your house burn down it’s a whole other thing to have your land disappear!!! 😩