{"id":502239,"date":"2026-10-20T13:30:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502239\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T13:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:30:42","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-millions-in-investments-in-long-beach-wont-stop-rising-sea-levels-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502239\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: Millions in investments in Long Beach won&#8217;t stop rising sea levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To the editor: As a Long Beach resident, I am saddened by the recent storm damage to our historic Seaside Walk (<a data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;Heavy surf, red-tagged homes, a battered boardwalk: Long Beach confronts costly climate reality,&quot;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-10-11\/heavy-surf-red-tagged-homes-battered-boardwalk-long-beach-confronts-costly-climate-reality\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Heavy surf, red-tagged homes, a battered boardwalk: Long Beach confronts costly climate reality,&#8221;<\/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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hurricanes Polo and Rachel may be taking blame for our coastline&#8217;s latest wave of destruction (pardon another pun), but the real culprit is, of course, rising sea levels. The city manager&#8217;s office acts like $3.6 million will fix the problem. Really? Those millions will hold back the ocean? Tell that to Kevin Costner&#8217;s character in &#8220;Waterworld.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Michael Napolillo, Long Beach<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This story originally appeared in <a data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/story\/2026-10-19\/long-beach-coastal-damage\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: As a Long Beach resident, I am saddened by the recent storm damage to our&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-502239","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\/502239","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=502239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}