{"id":501057,"date":"2026-10-19T14:06:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T14:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501057\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T14:06:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T14:06:31","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-millions-in-investments-in-long-beach-wont-stop-rising-sea-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501057\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: Millions in investments in Long Beach won\u2019t stop rising sea levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Oct. 19, 2026 7 AM PT  <\/p>\n<p>To the editor: As a Long Beach resident, I am saddened by the recent storm damage to our historic Seaside Walk (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-10-11\/heavy-surf-red-tagged-homes-battered-boardwalk-long-beach-confronts-costly-climate-reality\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cHeavy surf, red-tagged homes, a battered boardwalk: Long Beach confronts costly climate reality,\u201d<\/a> Oct. 11). However, when Mayor Rex Richardson says that the solution to this ongoing problem is real investment, he is sticking his head in the sandbags.<\/p>\n<p>Hurricanes Polo and Rachel may be taking blame for our coastline\u2019s latest wave of destruction (pardon another pun), but the real culprit is, of course, rising sea levels. The city manager\u2019s office acts like $3.6 million will fix the problem. Really? Those millions will hold back the ocean? Tell that to Kevin Costner\u2019s character in \u201cWaterworld.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael Napolillo, Long Beach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 19, 2026 7 AM PT To the editor: As a Long Beach resident, I am saddened by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[191932,37826,158229,2072,81070,194112,5180,194111,1838,131,133,132,8189,194110,57965,55415,35915],"class_list":["post-501057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-battered-boardwalk","tag-coastline","tag-destruction","tag-editor","tag-heavy-surf","tag-hurricanes-polo","tag-investment","tag-late-wave","tag-letter","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-million","tag-ongoing-problem","tag-rachel","tag-sandbag","tag-sea-level"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501057","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=501057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}