{"id":490865,"date":"2026-10-09T22:58:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T22:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/490865\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T22:58:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T22:58:38","slug":"strong-waves-severely-damage-homes-flood-streets-after-breaking-through-peninsulas-boardwalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/490865\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong waves severely damage homes, flood streets after breaking through Peninsula\u2019s boardwalk"},"content":{"rendered":"

City inspectors have declared several buildings on the Peninsula unsafe to enter after Hurricane Rachel\u2019s high surf and tides<\/a> chewed away at the shoreline, tearing apart a section of a wooden wall that is the neighborhood\u2019s last line of defense against the ocean.<\/p>\n

Officials issued a notice Thursday night that a large section of the bulkhead, left exposed after waves from Hurricane Marie ripped away its surrounding sand<\/a>, was badly damaged over the past day and left a gap that allowed water to reach homes and side streets.<\/p>\n

Residents stood in shin-deep flooding on Friday, with vehicle access closed at 62nd Place. Waves continued to chew at homes\u2019 foundations along the shoreline and tear planks from the boardwalk. At least one home in the 6500 block of Seaside Walk appeared close to collapse.<\/p>\n

Laath Martin, a city spokesperson, said inspectors are still assessing the extent of the bulkhead and boardwalk damage.<\/p>\n

Crews rushed to make emergency repairs, pump water off the streets and fill in the exposed section with roughly 1,000 sandbags. The city is bracing for rain this weekend, and more high tides and surf are expected.<\/p>\n

Inspectors surveyed homes threatened by water damage and red-tagged two buildings containing three units in the 6400 and 6500 blocks of Seaside Walk. The red tag means they\u2019re too dangerous to enter.<\/p>\n

Craig Nakano, a spokesperson for the city\u2019s Community Development Department, said Friday that nobody has been displaced by the tagging. One property was under construction, he said, while the other was confirmed by the owner to be vacant.<\/p>\n

\"People<\/p>\n

A young man talks with an employee helping pump water out of the street as high surf from Hurricane Rachel crashes into the Peninsula in Long Beach on Friday, October 9, 2026.\n<\/p>\n

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Thomas R. Cordova<\/p>\n

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The Long Beach Post<\/p>\n

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A third building received a yellow tag, which means its owner may go in briefly to collect belongings but may not stay. Nakano confirmed that the owner had already found somewhere else to stay.<\/p>\n

Two buildings were already yellow-tagged after damage from Hurricane Marie weeks ago. The latest damage brings the total to five damaged Peninsula structures, two red-tagged and three yellow-tagged. The tags are preliminary, and a red tag can be downgraded to yellow once repairs are made and inspectors sign off. Inspectors will keep checking homes twice a day.<\/p>\n

The latest bout of strong waves \u2014 whipped up by Hurricane Rachel \u2014 came just weeks after other hurricane-charged swells battered the Long Beach coast and the Peninsula<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The city is planning a multimillion-dollar dredging project<\/a> to rebuild the stretch of Peninsula beach that\u2019s been eroded. Long-term fixes are expected to be even more expensive.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, storms keep rolling in.<\/p>\n

The forecast for this weekend<\/p>\n

Bryan Lewis, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said high surf and tide are expected to rise precipitously each day through Sunday, with tides reaching 7.5 feet high on Saturday and nearly 8 feet high on Sunday morning around 10 a.m. Waves are currently ranging from 4 to 7 feet high, but are expected to rise to up to 8 feet by Sunday, he said.<\/p>\n

Conditions on Sunday evening and Monday morning, he said, will mirror Saturday, and likely will not relent in strength until Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

The NWS expects to announce a flood warning later Friday. They currently have an advisory running through Tuesday. Warnings are usually triggered when coastal buoys the Service monitors \u2014 in this case ones in the San Pedro Channel and city harbor \u2014 are routinely hit with high enough surf, Lewis explained.<\/p>\n

This storm could also bring rain and wind. The city expects up to a half-inch of precipitation this weekend and gusts strong enough to knock down trees and power lines.<\/p>\n

\u201cProtecting our residents is our top priority as high surf and erosion impact our Peninsula community,\u201d Mayor Rex Richardson said in a statement. He praised emergency crews and urged residents to \u201cbe prepared and follow City guidance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lewis said rain showers could start in the area as early as Friday night and Saturday morning, with a second storm system hitting the area on Monday. Showers are expected to total between a half inch and three quarters of an inch of rain.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will bring additional rain, so that\u2019s kind of separate from what tropical storm Rachel could be responsible for,\u201d Lewis said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City inspectors have declared several buildings on the Peninsula unsafe to enter after Hurricane Rachel\u2019s high surf and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[40482,13033,131,133,132,395,22999,46679],"class_list":["post-490865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-longbeach","tag-damage","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-peninsula","tag-surf","tag-tides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490865","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=490865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}