{"id":494709,"date":"2026-10-13T14:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T14:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/494709\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T14:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T14:16:09","slug":"long-beach-peninsula-homes-damaged-by-storm-high-surf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/494709\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Peninsula homes damaged by storm, high surf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2014 Tropical Storm Rachel has left a trail of destruction along the Long Beach Peninsula, where weeks of relentless high surf and coastal erosion have severely damaged oceanfront properties.<\/p>\n<p>Eight buildings have been red-tagged, one has been yellow-tagged, and residents in the hardest-hit areas have been ordered to evacuate. Others remain under evacuation warnings.<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Fire Department officials say crews are using drones to monitor damaged structures at risk of collapse as the city works to reinforce its vulnerable coastline ahead of future storms.<\/p>\n<p>Despite conditions being less severe than initially forecast on Sunday, some residents are voluntarily evacuating \u2014 uncertain about what they\u2019ll find when they return home.<\/p>\n<p>Click the arrow above to watch the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2014 Tropical Storm Rachel has left a trail of destruction along the Long Beach Peninsula,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[26528,2997,171294,7,131,133,132,1492,5999,5996,171295],"class_list":["post-494709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-anna-albaryan","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-weather-stories","tag-california","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-public-safety","tag-socal-what-you-need-to-know","tag-vod","tag-weather-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494709","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=494709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}