{"id":490588,"date":"2026-10-09T17:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/490588\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T17:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:46:09","slug":"long-beach-home-at-risk-of-collapse-as-tropical-storm-hits-socal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/490588\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach home at risk of collapse as tropical storm hits SoCal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Powerful waves from former<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/08\/us-news\/tropical-storm-rachel-strengthens-ahead-of-landfall-on-pacific-coast\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> Hurricane Rachel tore apart<\/a> sections of the Long Beach Peninsula boardwalk Friday morning, leaving one home on the verge of collapsing into the ocean.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/long-beach-boardwalk-collapse-rachel-surf\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">KTLA\u2019s helicopter<\/a> captured chunks of the shattered boardwalk floating out to sea as high tide hit shortly after 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Floodwaters swamped nearby streets and patios as erosion continued to undermine beachfront homes.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for the California Morning Report newsletter\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is easily the most damage I have seen over the past couple of weeks,\u201d KTLA\u2019s Rich Prickett said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow the entire boardwalk is just starting to shred away, and now some of these homes are being impacted even more severely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Damaging waves from former Hurricane Rachel crumble sections of the Long Beach Peninsula boardwalk, Friday. High tide flooded streets and patios, leaving one home on the verge of collapsing into the surf. KTLA<\/p>\n<p>Damaging waves from former Hurricane Rachel crumble sections of the Long Beach Peninsula boardwalk and leave one home on the verge of collapsing into the surf on Friday morning. KTLA<\/p>\n<p>High tide hit the peninsula just after 9 a.m., leaving pieces of the broken boardwalk floating into the ocean and flooding nearby streets and patios. KTLA<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Officials warn even worse conditions are ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials said one home was red-tagged Thursday and two others received yellow tags.<\/p>\n<p>All were unoccupied, and crews were assessing further damage Friday to decide if evacuations might be necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The threat could intensify Sunday night into Monday, when stronger swells and high tides are expected to combine.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service expects Monday\u2019s storm surge to reach about 7 feet.<\/p>\n<p>Download The California Post App, follow us on social, and subscribe to our newsletters <\/p>\n<p>California Post News: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheCaliforniaPost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/californiapost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@CaliforniaPost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TikTok<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/californiapost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">X<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@thecaliforniapost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Vb6a2IV1NCrL6q2AWq0E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WhatsApp<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/linkedin.com\/company\/californiapost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>California Post Sports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/capostsports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/capostsports\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@capostsports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TikTok<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CaliforniaPostSports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/capostsports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">X<\/a><br \/>California Post  <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/californiapost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Opinion<\/a> <br \/>California Post Newsletters: <a href=\"https:\/\/email.nypost.com\/#california-post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sign up here!<\/a><br \/>California Post App: <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/california-post\/id6751343487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Download here!<\/a><br \/>Home delivery: <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.californiapost.com\/defaultCAP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up here!<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/california-post\/id6751343487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><br \/><\/a>Page Six Hollywood: <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/hollywood-signup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sign up here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Powerful waves from former Hurricane Rachel tore apart sections of the Long Beach Peninsula boardwalk Friday morning, leaving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1785,7,20631,131,133,132,4182,4104,3586],"class_list":["post-490588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beaches","tag-california","tag-hurricanes","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-metro","tag-storms","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490588","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=490588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}