{"id":494960,"date":"2026-10-13T19:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/494960\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T19:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:36:09","slug":"california-coastal-homes-battered-and-bruised-after-weekend-of-intense-waves-and-flooding-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/494960\/","title":{"rendered":"California coastal homes battered and bruised after weekend of intense waves and flooding | California"},"content":{"rendered":"

Southern California<\/a> coastal communities are picking up the pieces after a weekend of extreme weather brought flooding that overtook city streets and intense waves battered beachside homes.<\/p>\n

The remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel hit Mexico\u2019s Baja California over the weekend as well as southern California and Las Vegas. While meteorologists noted that Rachel weakened into a post-tropical cyclone as it approached California, it still left a trail of destruction.<\/p>\n

Footage showed massive waves crashing into Long Beach homes, destroying a boardwalk and forcing residents to flee. The damage to homes was significant, leaving some at risk of collapse.<\/p>\n

At least nine have been deemed unsafe to enter, the Long Beach Post<\/a> reported, meaning displaced residents cannot return to retrieve personal items. The storm has cost the city more than $1m from its emergency reserves, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n

\"WavesWaves from tropical storm Rachel destroy beachfront houses – loop<\/p>\n

Further south, the city of Newport Beach declared a local emergency and briefly closed piers to \u201cprotect public safety\u201d, citing \u201chigher-than-normal surf\u201d that inundated streets.<\/p>\n

By Monday, cleanup work was under way and Newport Beach had reopened the piers, but officials advised residents to exercise caution near the water.<\/p>\n

In Las Vegas, a raging torrent of water rushed over a street near the strip, and the city tied an all-time daily rainfall record for October with 1.08in (2.74cm) of rain into Sunday morning, according to the US National Weather Service.<\/p>\n

The extreme weather comes as El Ni\u00f1o is supercharging the Pacific, leading to large and long-lasting storms. The last five hurricanes in the Pacific all reached major status and saw with winds of at least 111mph (178.6 km\/h), and one set a record for time spent at category 5.<\/p>\n

Colorado State University researcher Phil Klotzbach, who forecasts and studies storm activity, told the Associated Press that the last month has been \u201cberserk\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year, just everything that forms is just lasting a long time and getting really powerful,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Waves crash into homes and a sea wall in Long Beach. Photograph: Mario Tama\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

California is bracing for a challenging winter with severe storms thanks to an exceptionally strong El Ni\u00f1o. Models<\/a> from the the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) show a high chance this could be a historic El Ni\u00f1o and deliver rainy wet weather, landslides and destructive high tides.<\/p>\n

The state is one of the places expected to be significantly affected by the climate pattern, although the effects are expected to be seen worldwide, with temperature spikes and rising global food prices.<\/p>\n

Associated Press contributed reporting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southern California coastal communities are picking up the pieces after a weekend of extreme weather brought flooding that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-494960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494960","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=494960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}