{"id":491913,"date":"2026-10-10T21:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/491913\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T21:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T21:10:09","slug":"tropical-storm-rachel-long-beach-evacuated-newport-beach-closes-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/491913\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Rachel: Long Beach evacuated, Newport Beach closes beach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A coastal flood warning covered beaches from Malibu to San Diego on Saturday as Tropical Storm Rachel moved toward Southern California, while Long Beach kept some oceanfront residents under an evacuation order, and Newport Beach closed its beaches and piers.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor vulnerable south-facing beaches, especially Long Beach and Malibu, damaging sea-water flooding is likely,\u201d the National Weather Service said Saturday. The agency\u2019s San Diego office said Rachel\u2019s greatest impacts along the Orange and San Diego coasts would come Sunday morning, when swells, onshore winds and high tides combine. The center of Rachel was expected to move onshore in northern Baja California on Saturday night, the National Hurricane Center said.<\/p>\n

Long Beach\u2019s mandatory order covers homes on Seaside Walk between 64th and 66th places. It took effect at 7 p.m. Friday and runs through noon Tuesday, city officials said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe return date is subject to change based on evolving conditions,\u201d a city announcement said.<\/p>\n

\"Mike <\/p>\n

Mike Carter, center, and his daughter Ellie Carter, 11, of Costa Mesa, wade through ocean water that washed over the beach as a combination of high tide, high surf generated by distant Hurricane Rachel and a Kelvin wave moving toward Southern California contributes to coastal flooding on Saturday in Newport Beach.<\/p>\n

(Allen J. Schaben \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

Waves topped the bulkhead and sent water into homes and streets, according to city officials. Pumps placed in advance helped limit the flooding. Crews were making emergency repairs to the bulkhead when conditions allowed. Inspectors red-tagged eight buildings, covering 13 addresses, and yellow-tagged one. A red tag marks a building as unsafe to enter, and a yellow tag restricts its use. The city closed the Peninsula to nonresident traffic, with more street closures starting at 62nd Place.<\/p>\n

In Newport Beach, police posted an alert online Saturday saying ongoing flooding had closed all city beaches and piers until further notice. <\/p>\n

\u201cStay away from these areas,\u201d police said. The announcement followed Newport Beach declaring a local emergency Friday after overnight flooding on the Balboa Peninsula.<\/p>\n

Newport Beach said crews were rebuilding berms, opening tide valves and running pumps. \u201cThese measures are intended to reduce potential flooding impacts, but cannot eliminate all flood risks,\u201d the city said.<\/p>\n

Joe Angelo has lived in the Newport Beach area for 60 years and bought his beachfront home 27 years ago. He said the flooding left him in \u201cshock and disbelief.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Robert <\/p>\n

Robert Wells digs sand away from his car tires at 69th Place on the Long Beach Peninsula on Saturday.<\/p>\n

(Myung J. Chun \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t seen one drop of water on that sand in 27 years. All the sand, not one drop of water,\u201d Angelo said. \u201cWe all love living on this oceanfront. But, boy, it makes you think twice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sandbags lined dozens of homes and businesses near Balboa Boulevard on Saturday morning. Beachgoers strolled with coffee in hand, went for morning runs and walked their dogs. Despite the warnings, many climbed sand berms to watch the waves. Some did backflips off the sand.<\/p>\n

Chris Perkins of Orange County brought his son Connor to see the surf. \u201cI grew up around the ocean, and [I\u2019m] just trying to expose my kid to the gnarly waves, and show him how to be safe and how to do it the right way,\u201d Perkins said.<\/p>\n

In Long Beach, cars lined up Saturday at a Peninsula parking lot as fire department workers loaded sandbags into trunks. Light rain began falling shortly before noon.<\/p>\n

Huntington Beach also activated its emergency operations center Friday, the city said. Many spectators watched pounding waves there at high tide Saturday morning. Cyclists, walkers and runners packed the white concrete trail along Bolsa Chica State Beach. A section that flooded Friday appeared to escape more trouble Saturday, despite signs that said \u201cflooded.\u201d<\/p>\n

The weather service issued the tropical storm watch Friday for most of San Diego County.<\/p>\n

\"People <\/p>\n

People gather along the boardwalk as heavy machinery builds sand berms on the Long Beach Peninsula on Saturday.<\/p>\n

(Myung J. Chun \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s notable that this is an unusual event that\u2019s being made possible by both coincidence of this early arriving low-pressure trough off the coast of California and the record warm \u2014 and I do mean record warm \u2014 ocean temperatures off the coast of California right now,\u201d UC Agriculture and Natural Resources climate scientist Daniel Swain said.<\/p>\n

Inland, southern San Bernardino County faces at least a 40% chance of excessive rain that could result in flash flooding through Saturday night, said Julie Phillipson, lead meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Las Vegas. \u201cOur primary concern is still the heavy rains and the flooding that can occur,\u201d she said during a briefing Saturday.<\/p>\n

Deputy Managing Editor Shelby Grad contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A coastal flood warning covered beaches from Malibu to San Diego on Saturday as Tropical Storm Rachel moved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[20386,644,1073,131,133,132,60,5860,74,55417,55415,595,1009,191232,646,18060,72],"class_list":["post-491913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-city-official","tag-flooding","tag-home","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-national-weather-service","tag-newport-beach","tag-san-diego","tag-sand","tag-sandbag","tag-saturday","tag-southern-california","tag-tropical-storm-rachel","tag-water","tag-wave","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491913","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=491913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}