My home is on sand, six doors up from the shoreline. It's not the sand that is the issue in Pacifica. Wave action due to the increased strength of El Nino storms and higher tides is. Building on eroding bluffs - that seemed safe 50 years ago are now not safe due to the crumbling of the hills where the waves eat away at the base. Hopefully humans will learn from these stories and really look into the future and see what might be based on this history. Sadly, several care only about now and not the future.

@@cala3319 soooo.... 6.5 billion should be subject to Gretacide so you can live by the beach? Leftists.

@@Exedus20 makes your head ache, just thinking about it!!

​@@cala3319 you guys are truly idiots.

Concrete is 1/3 sand.

@@oldmanofcotati Ditto

Fools of daughters who don't believe the waters

I agree

And the delusion is summed up by that one guy who said something along the lines of, we fight mother nature, it's what men do.... 1-0 to Mama Nature

@@toniesedrick691 shhhhhh.

That part exactly

That’s the problem right there. A thought Process of FIGHTING, going to “WAR”, “CONQUERING” instead of “WORKING WITH”, “GOING WITH THE FLOW👀⬅️😆 of the Earth’s “Processes”. We have an abundance of SEAWATER. Build and refine Desalination Plants. Coast flooding? Move-da-@#$%-back!!🤪

Exactly! That's an arrogant video title. The sea has been there for eons. People encroached on the sea and the sea is just taking back it's territory.

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personally I think your an IDIOT TO SAY IN THE LEAST . It's not about who was there 1st but an engineering person who should have evaluating the grounds before giving the go ahead to allow people to build there and not ripping people off and taking their hard earned money. GOD SOME PEOPLE MAKE ME SO SICK WITH THEIR STUPID COMMENTS I COULD FUCKING SCREAM .

@@robertmedzai8163 And I will scream with you all the way from UK. We have a government over here allowing developers to build on known flood plains, where top water drains empty into the rivers at low levels only to back up in flood and make matters worse. Work against Nature and it will hit back a thousand fold.

@@robertmedzai8163 You're not so bright yourself The coast lines are constantly reshaping only an idiot would build on a ocean side cliff you don't need a degree to see that.

I learned about beach erosion way back in the seventies while still in primary school. It is a natural process that shaped our earth for millions of years. Strange that the Californions only recently discovered it. Or did the greedy developers ignored it deliberately just to make more money?

@@Deontjie got to love that they always blame climate change. Like no cliffs in history eroded. While villages in Europe on the coast have disappeared hundreds of years ago due to coastal changes. It’s not climate change then nor is it now.

@@xr6lad exactly

I cannot help but smile at that phrase...🇿🇦

Where I live there's nothing but sand to build on. There isn't any water though.....like none. The closest river is 20 miles away

Very interesting!

Speaking in terms of geologic time, these house sites will eventually be undersea, right next to Alaska. The San Andreas fault is about tectonic plate movement. Pacifica is moving... north.

Also they build drains that go directly into the coast and that help to erode mounts of sand that used to be another protection barrier. Nevertheless "climate change" is the perfect boogie man to blame for this.

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Put the mobile back in mobile home

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The swampland will still be there in a half an hour?

@@etiennedegaulle3817 🤣😅🤣😅

No subduction in that part of California. Further north by Oregon it does

@@619chrisoriginal really? The whole of it all is shifting!

No. Back in the 70s the beach down below sandy like sugar. You can have crusty feet 10 minutes smooth as a baby's butt. The ocean was wayyyyy out like 2-300 feet. Only time it hit the cliff was high tide just one day. You could I did lay on the cliff with your kids. Hang glide ppl flying by. My friend I went to her apt the ones you see now hanging on the cliff.. she had a big backyard along the the neighbors. Concrete slab for bbq and grass. it was beautiful. I can't believe what's happening!?!!!! Where's the cliff??? Why is the ocean splashing at the bottom of the cliff?!!! Just 40 years and it's all gone. Now the next streets next to the apts will be next! This is horrible!! It's too late to solve anything. The cliffs are saturated with sea water which makes the Sandy soil deteriorate much faster. I hate to see what's down the road at the zoo.

@@jage5256 thank you for the history. It was something amazing yet sad to see that woman's house go over the cliff.

Hittman2005. The way you worded that paragraph... 🤣🤣🤣🤣 😂

The houses belong to the oceans? How does that land belong to the oceans?!

@@Fedgery007 Just because it does, THINK!

Move back where?

@@bargdaffy1535 In-land of course....off the coast shores.

Don't blame earth ... and don't blame climate change. Erosion is the purpose of the ocean. Blame land developer's and the urban planners they paid off.

@@bargdaffy1535 inland

@@michellemullins512 Um, you can go to Iowa, but have you ever looked into their drought and heat conditions? Not looking good for the corn. Then you should also read up on Derechos

Smart people wont buy property there, its just too risky and not safe, so the homeowners cant sell and have to choose between retreating and lose everything or staying and lose everything. a major earthquake could also cause a huge Tsunami too.

The sands in the bluffs there aren't susceptible to liquefaction, but earthquakes definitely don't help. The interesting thing I noticed when I lived there was that the old building codes required accounting for a safety buffer of at least 50 years of bluff retreat, and it seemed to me that the houses at risk of falling in always seemed to be about 50 years old. So yes, they got exactly what the planning and zoning anticipated would happen, but it always seems like a surprise because it happens slowly. Managed retreat seems like a good idea.

It seems clear you have a bias. The area in question has been there for over 100 years. We are not talking about sand bluffs. I have no affiliation whatsoever with the Real Estate Ind., nor do I own property in the affected area. The poorly designed existing Seawall (2 different designs built in the 80's) is aged out as the ousted Mayor states in the video. This is no different than any type of infrastructure that is no longer adequate. BTW, virtually ALL infrastructure (sewer, road, water etc) is and has been publicly funded as the direct benefit is to the public at large.

@@chrisredfield4017 True but his point is that the local developers are insisting on continued infrastructure development and improvement when there is pretty much a guarantee the city is going to fall off of a cliff. This comes down to small knot of individuals afraid of losing mountains of investments.

That's why I quit!!

You have a really good question there. Why should other people (the public) spend money to shore up their property values? When homeless or working class people need affordable housing these are the same people that will whine about cost and who will pay for it. But they just assume we should all pay for their sea wall. Why?

@@theoccasionalvideo I know this will trigger the MAGA set, but here goes: For decades Republicans claimed to be small government, fiscally conservative and all about self sufficiency and personal responsibility. Simultaneously, they delivered welfare to the rich in the form of tax cuts and loopholes and by subsidizing fossil fuels, defense contractors, Wall St., agriculture, etc. Between that and deregulation for the corporate establishment, they picked the winners, something they swear they abhor. Because there was a center-right accountability vacuum throughout the 20th century, the hypocrisy was seldom, if ever, called out by mainstream media, and never seeped into the consciousness of popular culture. The way the hypocrisy manifested at the local level reflected the national reality: Republicans used the powers of government to help "their" citizenry, namely people of property and affluence engaged in business, finance, real estate and the like. Nearly every city in America has an establishment private/public partnership delivering assistance to private enterprise. At the lower end, it's meant to facilitate small business and start-ups, the sector that suffers the highest risks. The high end seeks to remove as much risk as possible from enterprises that create the reliable investment income the wealthy live off, hence the subsidies I mentioned above. Think big pharma, tobacco (still,) big tech, chemicals, banks and the like. Without risk, investors reap regular, even predictable, incomes. That status quo is of peak importance to a lot of people, and they dedicate some of their income to maintaining influence over government at every level. The reason Republicans wigged out on that Democrat mayor was because he was prioritizing the well being of the city population as a whole. That meant no subsidizing risk-mitigation in the form of infrastructure for property owners, real estate companies, developers, banks and other secondary businesses in the sector. This Republican, and increasingly Democratic, brand of socialism for the investor class is entrenched, and standard operating procedure. So much so, people who practice it are unaware that's what they're doing. Until someone threatens it. Then they go apeshit.

We can all appreciate that kind of choice. But here's the problems: 1) it seems the cliffhouse owners don't want their houses designated as unsafe so that they can sell them (passing the problem to someone else); and 2) so that they can have bank loans and insurance coverage (again, that passes the problems onto others in the forms of higher interest, deductibles, and insurance premiums aka subsidies from others); 3) having the local tax base pay for their seawalls to protect their properties (also passing the problems onto others with their tax dollars funding/subsidizing the wealthy homeowners). So yah, every one is free to enjoy nature at their own risk. But it sounds like these homeowners are trying to get it all subsidized by others so they can have their cake and eat it, too.

@@kelliepatrick519 yes Kellie.. well said.

I knew who you were in the video as soon as I read the first sentence of your comment. There are so many questions I have for you. How did you become such a humble person? There is no sound of negativity or regret in your tone. Just grateful and appreciative to live near nature. Truly blessed. 🙌

Are you saying your house has survived where others have been destroyed?

@@danawinsor1380 No - the houses along our part of the coast are all survivors at this point. The destroyed houses are further north where the cliffs are taller and steeper.

Solar minimums. Look into GMS on KZfaq

Interesting you say Dunwich as on a map showing populations of towns in the 11th Century it shows as one of the large towns of England with the similar population to Gloucester, Colchester and Exeter. I hadn't realised it was no more and just assumed it had shrunk. I always was intrigued how the US could build places on the seashore and of course recent events show you can't. We are lucky in some way that we have storms on a regular basis which means we do not get lulled in to complacency. With the opinion people have of Estate Agents here in the UK the thought of them determining local area planning policy is alarming with maximising their commission surely being a driver of their business and once the sale is done they are gone. A good idea would be a fixed claw back of commission or even compensation if the building does not last which would change their minds I am sure. A vulnerable area designation requiring fixed term guarantees from Realtors would seem rather a good idea. Especially if they are going to move in to the politics of the area.

exactly.....

In the Bible that wasn’t literal. 🤦🏻‍♂️

I think her point was that she'll be long gone and that's someone else's problem. (She made other points.)

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A planet of climate extremes, unseen in over 100 million years. Fun and challenging where it is hard to farm because the amount of water you can get in the year is unpredictable. The key is to grow plants in doors. Vertical farms is the way to go.

There ya go.👍

Ya no post tensioned cable resting wall to piles.These people are better off in Santa Rita

You obviously have not researched this. Not only is the homeowner responsible but the California coastal commission won’t allow the homeowners to build walls to protect themselves.

True, and at what point is enough, enough? When do we stop funding, insuring or subsidizing people who build on known risk areas? What criteria/red line must be crossed before we say "OK, the time has arrived?" I'm reminded of people who have had their homes washed away by past storms only to rebuild them again in the same spot and be damaged again years later. That's insanity. If the insurance companies would put a moratorium on insuring places like these the problem would solve itself.

They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot ~ ( Big Yellow Taxi ~ Joanie Mitchell )

Everything humans touch is in decay?! So hopefully we will all go extinct some?!

It’s not sand that far inward. Please go research.

​​@@Fedgery007 its not bedrock, its not rock, its nonsense to build there. Period.

nice.!!!!!

That might not be Pacifica's problem or main problem. But it sure is (was), down around that part of the country by the monument. If you look at the San Jacinto monument on Wikipedia, you can (or could) see how the reflecting pool seems to have experienced subsidence towards one corner (actually, I might have seen it on Google Earth). And, if you've spent much time in that cursed part of the country, or read the Houston Chronicle's article(s) (or series of articles), on Houston's problems with subsidence (hastened, at one point by the city's heavy use of ground water), you will likely remember the Chronicle's most memorable article on susidence involving a one-time neighborhood of Baytown called Brownwood, on a peninsula jutting out into Crystal Bay, just southeast of the monument. If I remember correctly it was developed in the mid to late '40s. I can't remember the details regarding the rate of subsidence, but it was in one of the areas where the susidence was either highly accelerated or merely extreme in terms of depth. I spent what seemed like hours viewing all of the foundations, as well as (at least a few years ago) a few standing portions of houses or outbuildings (see if you can go back in time a few years; you have the possibility to do so on Google Earth (maybe Google Maps, too.). Someone has taken numerous pictures of that part of the ”nature area” (the one time neighborhood) that seems to discourage the public's use of vehicles (including Google's), though access to that part is not completely blocked, if you look at the map. At one intersection of the no-longer-maintained streets, you could see one of the pumps that were used to keep (or attempt to keep) the neighborhood from flooding. You might still be able to see it on one of the maps; I just can't remember the exact location, anymore.

This shows how wrong people have wealth.They don't deserve it being this ignorant

^sea wall

@@mrmustangmanwell, y'all needa understand that down here in the South when it's hot and humjd we sorta abbreviate everything.and sometimes in professional situations like making a comment on YT it slips out.

@@vernalc2449 ok

So technically that’s everything we have built anywhere in the world?!

And worse she doesn't want to make it difficult to sell her property. In other words she will knowingly get the money of another person, make a profit, that is, after she has enjoyed the property, and leave that person to worry and lose. But oh no, not her now.

its cool to go north of bodega bay to see those storms and huge waves. its really something to see.

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Nice House. Would you say it's about 100 yards from the current coastline? How long before the waves start washing away that seawall on Beach Blvd?

@@kelliepatrick519 i've seen waves come over the seawall there when i was building. some came up the the sliding glass doors on the lower floor!. its not perfect but there are 200 yards of 7 sac concrete mix and 5/8 schedule 60 rebar holding that home up. at least, it will be the last one standing on beach blvd.

@@jsEMCsquared rebar and sea water don't mix.... look at the Surfside, FL condo......

@@mrmustangman like I said -7 sack mix plus schedule 60. At least it has a better chance of survival than all the other homes in the area built on slabs. It's the only house built on piers on beach blvd.

You can just hear the 🎻🎻🎻. 😢😢😢

The homeowners with properties backing to the ocean DO pay for the seawall. Only when there is city infrastructure is it a different conversation.

It's spelled genius, genius.

@@etiennedegaulle3817 it's for the accent! 😆

@@bonniegarber9915 - no! lol