{"id":426417,"date":"2026-08-07T13:13:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426417\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T13:13:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:13:20","slug":"higher-tides-storms-worsen-long-beach-peninsula-sand-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426417\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher tides, storms worsen Long Beach Peninsula sand loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2014 High tides, including King tides, and storm surges caused parts of Southern California\u2019s beach communities to flood in June and July.<\/p>\n<p>And high tides above six feet are coming in mid-August.<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Peninsula has seen ocean water breach sand berms and a temporary plywood wall placed along the boardwalk during past storms.<\/p>\n<p>Spectrum News checked in with the city of Long Beach about some efforts being done to mitigate the effects of Mother Nature.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Long Beach Peninsula resident Hayden Glegg discusses what the area has been dealing with during the recent storms.<\/p>\n<p>Christine Whitcraft, Cal State Long Beach professor of marine biology, also breaks down how often these higher-than-average high tides are expected to happen in coming years and what the impact of what experts say is rising sea level will be on coastal communities.<\/p>\n<p>Click the arrow above to watch the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2014 High tides, including King tides, and storm surges caused parts of Southern California\u2019s beach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[36621,7,643,68504,131,133,132,5999,5996],"class_list":["post-426417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-app-environment","tag-california","tag-environment","tag-jo-kwon","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-socal-what-you-need-to-know","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}