{"id":460177,"date":"2026-09-11T05:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T05:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460177\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T05:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T05:08:11","slug":"effort-launched-to-stop-beach-erosion-after-high-surf-from-marie-damages-long-beach-homes-boardwalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460177\/","title":{"rendered":"Effort launched to stop beach erosion after high surf from Marie damages Long Beach homes, boardwalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More beach erosion caused by pounding surf from Hurricane Marie is showing up along the Southern California coastline, damaging homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Thursday, some Long Beach residents returned to their beachfront homes to find damage to their properties and a tattered boardwalk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Along that stretch of Long Beach, erosion is leaving its mark. The waves keep coming in and, in some places, they&#8217;re taking the coastline with them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I just can&#8217;t believe what I&#8217;m seeing right now, you know, the damage and everything. This boardwalk is just just priceless. I mean, it&#8217;s been here for so many years,&#8221; said Long Beach resident Denise Reyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The city of Long Beach is asking the public to stay clear of the area while they continue repairs as there are many hazards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Really sad to see what&#8217;s happening with the boardwalk here. This is a favorite area of ours. We come walk this regularly and we spend a lot of time on the beach here, so very sad to see it being torn apart like this,&#8221; said resident Steve Demos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In Long Beach, the mandatory evacuations have been lifted. No homes were red-tagged, however, one home was yellow-tagged. It leaves residents with the question, what now?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know. You can&#8217;t stop mother nature, so I&#8217;m not sure what they&#8217;ll do. They&#8217;ve always built these berms here. This has been something they do every year,&#8221; Demos said. &#8220;These waves haven&#8217;t been this bad this early in the year. Usually it&#8217;s a winter time thing, so it&#8217;s showing that times are changing. I&#8217;m not sure how they&#8217;re going to solve this problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Meanwhile, Malibu is dealing with erosion as well. A massive sinkhole opened up Tuesday morning, damaging properties and blocking residents and emergency access.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mandatory evacuations and red tags remain in place in Malibu. Residents there are also preparing for more potential storms associated with a powerful forecasted El Ni\u00f1o.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More beach erosion caused by pounding surf from Hurricane Marie is showing up along the Southern California coastline,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[181460,178291,131,133,132,179765,181461],"class_list":["post-460177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beachfront-homes","tag-hurricane-marie","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-southern-california-coastline","tag-steve-demos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460177","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=460177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}