Pacifica coastal EROSION bluffs COLLAPSE

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  • Опубликовано: 16 ноя 2024
  • Rising sea levels are eating away the California coast, and a recent study found that the cliffs in Pacifica are among those crumbling the fastest.
    Cliffs in Pacifica , were deemed hot spots, having eroded more than 16 feet per year. The highest rates of erosion found in Northern California with more rainfall and larger waves
    In 2017 after another round of storms, Pacifica made national headlines when seawalls gave out and residents of cliffside apartments were evacuated when their backyards fell into the ocean , as a result the apartments were demolished
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  • @staceymichaels9530
    @staceymichaels9530 9 месяцев назад +18

    Leo!!! Where are You?

    • @LeoMetalTraveler
      @LeoMetalTraveler  9 месяцев назад +14

      @staceymichaels9530 not too far away from posting more videos than before currently working on fresh new videos and I can’t wait to put them out. I miss you ALL , interacting in the comment section is like hanging out with my best friends, thank you for reaching out AND I’LL SEE YOU ON THE NEXT VIDEO!!!

    • @staceymichaels9530
      @staceymichaels9530 9 месяцев назад +4

      @@LeoMetalTraveler I absolutely LOVE Your videos. Thank You, Leo🎆

    • @LeoMetalTraveler
      @LeoMetalTraveler  9 месяцев назад +6

      Thank you @staceymichaels9530 I appreciate you and your feedback!

    • @soavemusica
      @soavemusica 8 месяцев назад +3

      Very cool videos, censured topics and funny one liners.

    • @Wildman-zh8lg
      @Wildman-zh8lg 5 месяцев назад +1

      On earth

  • @allenra530
    @allenra530 10 месяцев назад +87

    When I was studying Geology in college in California, in 1983, we discussed the hazards in Pacifica. The view of our professor and the authors of our textbooks were that most of Pacifica is doomed. It is built on sandstone that used to be the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Just inland is the San Andreas Fault. The land that the town is on is on the Pacific Plate. It is moving north with the rest of the Plate, toward the Golden Gate. The earthquake activity on the fault makes the sandstone crack and become unstable. It is easy for the waves to erode the cracked sandstone. Long before the town is covered by the water at the Golden Gate, it will fall down into the Pacific surf. There is no way to stop it from happening. Great video, Leo. I think it should be used in CSU & UC Geology and Engineering classes, showing why city planners need to pay attention to scientists. It seldom happens, but It should.

    • @domcizek
      @domcizek 10 месяцев назад +13

      GOOD REPLY, AND DATA SAD, TO SEE HAPPEN, PLANNERS ONLY THINK ABOUT MONEY TO BE MADE

    • @garblegarble8065
      @garblegarble8065 8 месяцев назад +8

      Nature always takes back what’s hers, in the end.

    • @soavemusica
      @soavemusica 8 месяцев назад +4

      Thank you for sharing this data. What a pity the city planners do not want to hear it. And what`s the deal with the sea view? It`s flat water. There are plenty of sceneries with and without water that are beautiful, and make sense. Fancy a swim? No can do...A motor home just won.

    • @coletrick8748
      @coletrick8748 8 месяцев назад +1

      Crazy all that sand in backyard

    • @domcizek
      @domcizek 8 месяцев назад

      REMEMBER WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT BUILDING YOUR HOUSE UPON SAND.....@@coletrick8748

  • @hankieski1549
    @hankieski1549 10 месяцев назад +81

    When I lived in Pacifica I fell in love with a house on the cliffs (before they started falling into the ocean). It had a hot tub on a huge deck with big glass windows to watch the sunset and the fog roll in. It looked safe because there were huge boulders up the side of the cliff to prevent erosion. Omg it was so beautiful! I tried really hard to buy it but in the end it was just too expensive. A year later there was a picture in the local paper of the deck and hot tub hanging off the cliff. The boulders were washed away. I was so sad to see it like that, but so glad I wasn’t able to afford it!

    • @staceymichaels9530
      @staceymichaels9530 10 месяцев назад +5

      Phew!!! Out in the Nick-o-time.

    • @merrywalsh2809
      @merrywalsh2809 10 месяцев назад +3

      Had a similar experience. Was in escrow on an oceanfront place in Lahaina, Maui twenty years ago. It fell out of escrow, meaning, I did not get it. This past August, it burned down in our terrible fire. If that had not happened, the rising ocean would have got it in the next ten years.

    • @staceymichaels9530
      @staceymichaels9530 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@merrywalsh2809 God Bless You and the People of Maui.

    • @merrywalsh2809
      @merrywalsh2809 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@staceymichaels9530 💛 Thank you so much.

    • @staceymichaels9530
      @staceymichaels9530 10 месяцев назад

      @@merrywalsh2809 You’re welcome and with Love🙏🏼🙏🏽🙏🏽

  • @BethP-pl9nc
    @BethP-pl9nc 10 месяцев назад +74

    Thank you Leo for the footage. Mother Nature is in charge. Personally, I can't imagine living in one of these homes, and pre-occupied with daily thoughts of my home sliding into the ocean.

    • @LeoMetalTraveler
      @LeoMetalTraveler  10 месяцев назад +9

      Well said, every night just a drift would be concerning

    • @Ozvideo1959
      @Ozvideo1959 10 месяцев назад +4

      People are stupid, especially rich people. They want to live up high, I don't know what the attraction is, maybe they like to look down upon us, lol. It's like the clowns who buy these apartments in super slim buildings. Who would want to live in a building that sways in the wind, and creaks and groans all night. Not for me I'm afraid, I'll stick to a 4 bedroom/ 2 bathroom house, with a backyard.

  • @illroble
    @illroble 10 месяцев назад +102

    Great footage Leo! I used to live on Esplanade Ave in one of the apartment buildings that's no longer there (from 2005 - 2007). I left a few years before the apartments were CLOSED. In the two years I was there, the sea wall lost 10-15 feet. When I left, sea wall was about 8' from the edge of my patio. I loved living on the cliff so close to the waves. Luckily for me I was a renter and could leave when I needed to. It was fun while it lasted and I will probably never get to live that close to the ocean ever again so it was totally worth it. ✌️

    • @LeoMetalTraveler
      @LeoMetalTraveler  10 месяцев назад +17

      You left in time, but 8 feet is cutting it pretty close. I’m sure every day living there was exciting. Thank you for sharing.

    • @williambarry8015
      @williambarry8015 10 месяцев назад +5

      That musta been cool. Hearing sea lions and all the marine life. Bet awesome cold water snorkeling there too

    • @poempadgett4664
      @poempadgett4664 10 месяцев назад +5

      What was it like when there were any earthquakes and tremors while living there? Yikes!😱

    • @Dstew57A
      @Dstew57A 10 месяцев назад +4

      People who are flush with cash will buy places like this

    • @joezen1693
      @joezen1693 10 месяцев назад +6

      The property seen in grey color was hundreds of feet from edge of cliff not long ago.. Maybe 25 years. I saw it listed in Pacifica not but 5 years ago and some of the patio/yard was gone.. you can maybe look it the listing on the Way Back Machine, that "nautical style" yard was three or four times the size..was huge. Now about to fall hone and all. The erosion has kicked it up many levels..

  • @luciadesa8037
    @luciadesa8037 8 месяцев назад +3

    Great footage, thank you! I lived in Pacifica from 1999-2006. IN fact, used to walk on the path near the 'nice flats' you showed, even looked at renting one of the flats. The paths used to be much further from the houses, and there used to be a band stand quite far from the flats. All gone now. At the time, just before 1999, around 10 houses near the post office were demolished because they were considered unsafe. It would be great to see photographs over the years comparing how far out the constructions used to go.

  • @89128
    @89128 10 месяцев назад +43

    That adage about not building on sand is true. Those cliffs aren't rock but are compacted sand and dirt.

    • @l.plzsavethebeez485
      @l.plzsavethebeez485 10 месяцев назад +1

      Limestone!

    • @OMNIDON2000
      @OMNIDON2000 10 месяцев назад +1

      Is that right? Limestone? I really don't know.😊

    • @Clearanceman2
      @Clearanceman2 10 месяцев назад

      Sure look like sand to me too. Limestone is light gray, not sand colored. @@OMNIDON2000

    • @johncorlett3699
      @johncorlett3699 9 месяцев назад +1

      pretty poor limestone, look crumbly as heck..

    • @TheVirginGary
      @TheVirginGary 9 месяцев назад

      I wouldn't even walk on that sidewalk. I saw a video of boaters near a high cliff made of solid hard rock. A huge piece of from top to bottom peeled off and tipped over, so long it crushed the front of a boat that was in use at the time.

  • @cydkriletich6538
    @cydkriletich6538 10 месяцев назад +12

    Pacifica is a lovely little coastal community. It is very sad to see folks losing their homes, but unfortunately, it’s been happening for decades and will continue to do so. If it isn’t one form of Mother Nature it’s another; a cousin of mine and her fiancé lost their first home during the horrible fire in Paradise, CA. Her grandmother, my aunt, had to leave her home at the age of 85 when the Oroville Dam causeway gave in a few years back. Her house was directly in the path of the river that was threatening to flood the area. People need to stop blaming other people because of where they live. It’s like blaming the people who live in Tornado Alley for rebuilding in the same threatened area. They do so because of their jobs, or family history, or any other number of reasons we each choose a place to live. People throughout the world live in areas where natural disasters happen. Mother Nature will have her way.

  • @douglasbrown9440
    @douglasbrown9440 10 месяцев назад +28

    Mother nature always wins.

  • @shashakeeleh5468
    @shashakeeleh5468 10 месяцев назад +35

    Thanks very much for taking the time and making the effort to keep us informed of what's happening. I'm astonished at the changes to the entire SF area!

    • @LeoMetalTraveler
      @LeoMetalTraveler  10 месяцев назад +11

      You and me both!

    • @latetotheparty184
      @latetotheparty184 10 месяцев назад +1

      Shouldn't we be blaming global warming, or something? just kidding

  • @mikes9959
    @mikes9959 10 месяцев назад +27

    Brilliant drone footage, man! Wow!

  • @EducatedSkeptic
    @EducatedSkeptic 10 месяцев назад +8

    Basic point of reality to remember, people: a coast with cliffs is, BY DEFINITION, an eroding coastline! How rapidly it erodes back will be determined by what's underneath - granite, or sediments. Most of the California coast south of San Francisco is underlain by weakly consolidated (at most) sediments, or sedimentary "rocks" not much more resistant than a hard dirt cod. Pacifica is a great case in point - mostly sediments that were beach deposits maybe 125,000 years ago (no time at all, geologically). Hit them with these big storm waves, and you should expect them to falter. That's where much of the sand and gravel on the beaches comes from!

  • @simontemplar1
    @simontemplar1 10 месяцев назад +4

    Great video. In the 1980s and 90s I used to surf right in front of where those three apartments used to be, and some of my surf buddies lived in them. We used to sit on our boards watching small pieces of those bluffs falling down but never dreamed they would collapse entirely. The ocean always wins no matter what.

  • @LizaTrese
    @LizaTrese 10 месяцев назад +3

    Thank you for this update! I’ve been following the story of the apartments and houses on these cliffs for the past 6 years.

  • @asaprocky8195
    @asaprocky8195 10 месяцев назад +37

    Great coverage, Leo. You do a wonderful job of video blogging our Bay Area conditions, from natural erosion to Urban Blight. Our local news channels should use your footage on their networks. It's better than their own!

    • @LeoMetalTraveler
      @LeoMetalTraveler  10 месяцев назад +5

      @asaprocky8195 thank you for your support!

  • @TheCornerZoo
    @TheCornerZoo 10 месяцев назад +9

    Thank you ML. You give information we can’t get anywhere else. Such a sad situation for the property owners.

  • @cmotherofpirl
    @cmotherofpirl 10 месяцев назад +25

    When little we lived along a very small river less than 50’ wide. Woke up one morning to 3’ of water outside, got out by boat. When water drained, half of our property had washed away. Nature always stacks the deck.

  • @rootdoc1997
    @rootdoc1997 10 месяцев назад +8

    That would scare the shit out of me if my house was there. Yikes!!!!

  • @mikeifyouplease
    @mikeifyouplease 10 месяцев назад +10

    Leo, thanks for revisiting this section of Pacifica, even though you had a video about it just two years ago. The destruction here is tremendous!! Like I stated before, those sea cliffs are 100% beach sand, so it is only a matter of time before they collapse. And those two houses that you showed. I saw them. It was the craziest thing. They were both sitting on a tiny single square piece of land. One side connected to the street, while the other three sides fell directly to the ocean!

    • @LeoMetalTraveler
      @LeoMetalTraveler  10 месяцев назад +6

      @mikeifyouplease you are one of the very few that have seen that video from two years ago. Things have changed since then and there’s a lot less bluff now ,Thank you very much for sharing.

  • @snowymatrix
    @snowymatrix 10 месяцев назад +12

    Human arrogance, you can't beat or cheat Mother Nature she's the very definition of an unstoppable force of nature! 👍

  • @tiger8linny788
    @tiger8linny788 10 месяцев назад +3

    Thank you, Leo, for this disturbing view of how quickly Pacifica is being gobbled up by the sea! In my estimation, there is no doubt that the ocean will triumph over any sea wall erected to stave off her relentless encroachment!

  • @PDXGal
    @PDXGal 10 месяцев назад +2

    Thank you for the great video and narrative. 😊

  • @seanmanning652
    @seanmanning652 10 месяцев назад +22

    Your videos are really good.

  • @l.antoinetteanderson3736
    @l.antoinetteanderson3736 10 месяцев назад +9

    I was born and raised in the 50/60's at Southern California - this activity has been happening in this area for many decades, for many seasons. Still building, still held in high regard by the "rich and famous " -foolishness. ( I especially recall the Pacific Pallisades,as they were called then, a place more southern and near Santa Monica.)

  • @WillCulbertsonIT
    @WillCulbertsonIT 10 месяцев назад +8

    Amazing to see and amazing that people are still there, that close. Growing up in the Bay Area, there have always been stories of something sliding into the sea there. Sad but not uncommon.

  • @camwhitman5425
    @camwhitman5425 10 месяцев назад +33

    Imagine if you’re stuck in one of those homes, you’re not going to be able to sell your property.

    • @LeoMetalTraveler
      @LeoMetalTraveler  10 месяцев назад +5

      Exactly

    • @kirbywaite1586
      @kirbywaite1586 10 месяцев назад +8

      But you're still paying a mortgage and property taxes.

    • @jakeforrest
      @jakeforrest 10 месяцев назад +8

      Maybe the property taxes gets lower as the area shrinks?

    • @kirbywaite1586
      @kirbywaite1586 10 месяцев назад +5

      @jakeforrest That's an approach I hadn't thought of. Lol

    • @eaglesoarsusa
      @eaglesoarsusa 10 месяцев назад

      They will lose their property. They will not be able to sell as who would buy land that is getting eaten by the ocean. Insurance will not cover the loss. You might be able to claim the loss on tax year. But that will be not much.
      Maybe they will sue the ocean?? :P

  • @mancroft
    @mancroft 10 месяцев назад +156

    These people seem to lack common sense. Who would buy a property that close to a cliff? It must be very distressing to realise that your house is worth nothing.

    • @pamelas1002
      @pamelas1002 10 месяцев назад +36

      No, they believe they're entitled to build wherever they want. But nature ALWAYS has the last say!

    • @timboc105
      @timboc105 10 месяцев назад +12

      It's beautiful to see..Same shizits here in Florida when the big Canes come..😂

    • @Hannah68-n7l
      @Hannah68-n7l 10 месяцев назад +12

      Ocean View 🤪

    • @RenKnight347
      @RenKnight347 10 месяцев назад +8

      For some folks, the desire to have a room-with-a-view, clearly ended up being much more expensive than it was worth.

    • @boostedmaniac
      @boostedmaniac 10 месяцев назад +4

      I believe Federal money insures those homes. So why not have a nice home close to the cliff?

  • @markbrisko8720
    @markbrisko8720 10 месяцев назад +6

    Your really upping your game brother, especially with the drone footage. Your videos keep getting better and better, keep up the good work!

    • @markbrisko8720
      @markbrisko8720 10 месяцев назад +1

      Also those people in Pacifica who live near those bluff cliffs in their 3 to 5 million dollar homes should know the risks involved, I would never live there! I hope they have good home/cliff insurance!

    • @LeoMetalTraveler
      @LeoMetalTraveler  10 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks! Will do!

  • @ultramagnus1275
    @ultramagnus1275 10 месяцев назад +9

    I lived in Pacifica 20 years ago and even back then you could see this coming. Chit Chat Cafe anyone?

    • @blanchiep
      @blanchiep 10 месяцев назад +2

      I moved out in 2004. I lived uphill on Manor Drive. I miss the views but that’s all.

    • @WASF2024
      @WASF2024 10 месяцев назад +2

      I miss my old house on the south side of Manor. The ocean and mountain views were fabulous. The wind/salt/fog damage to the house was not. The airplane noise sucked.

    • @rickytrux
      @rickytrux 6 месяцев назад +2

      That place is not long for this world….great coffee tho’!

  • @typeorulz
    @typeorulz 10 месяцев назад +4

    Thank you for all the great coverage!

  • @ulexite-tv
    @ulexite-tv 10 месяцев назад +1

    Beautiful drone footage. Thanks.

  • @robinlathim8221
    @robinlathim8221 10 месяцев назад +1

    OMG was this from this last big wave event and all the rain we've had? Whoa! Great footage, how scary! Thank you.❤

  • @RiannaRichardsOfficial
    @RiannaRichardsOfficial 10 месяцев назад +8

    😮😮😮Oh my gosh, I would be worried living in one of those houses! Great drone footage!

  • @TheFinalBathAmber
    @TheFinalBathAmber 10 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you, Leo. Seeing our California fall isn’t quite as horrible with you at my side.

  • @boostedmaniac
    @boostedmaniac 10 месяцев назад +13

    John Stossel just did a video on how federal funds are used to insure those homes because private insurance deems it too risky. So basically you and I payout for the stupidity of building so close to the edge.

    • @AbandonedMaine
      @AbandonedMaine 10 месяцев назад +1

      In other words, "we're" bailing out another risky speculative venture. How is this any different from all the other bailouts ever since Alan Greenspan created derivatives?

    • @WASF2024
      @WASF2024 10 месяцев назад +1

      please link.

  • @iPlaneFun
    @iPlaneFun 10 месяцев назад +2

    Stunning footage. California is breathtaking and totally different (way more spectacular )than the East coast. ❤

  • @michaelgeraghty3989
    @michaelgeraghty3989 10 месяцев назад +16

    California has a number of eroding sandstone cliffs below homes that have already been destroyed or will eventually be red-tagged. Pacific Palisades, Palos Verdes and Laguna Beach have examples of this in the LA area.

    • @LeoMetalTraveler
      @LeoMetalTraveler  10 месяцев назад +3

      I’m going to have to be visit the LA area Thanks for sharing.

    • @canamrider07
      @canamrider07 10 месяцев назад +5

      The cliffs down in the San Diego area, Luecadia, Solana Beach have the same problems. I used to walk the beaches in the 90’s and all the houses on top of the cliffs were trying to stop the erosion. Each one had a different type of construction to try and stop it, concrete, poles, rocks, etc. Each one kept washing away.

    • @danlowe8684
      @danlowe8684 10 месяцев назад +5

      I visited my uncle in the mid-70s (he lived in Pacific Palisades) and I still remember looking up at a row of houses that were overhanging the eroding cliff above the highway along the ocean (I was only 10yo).

    • @chriscoughlin9289
      @chriscoughlin9289 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@LeoMetalTraveler Portuguese Bend being the most notorious.
      Grew up right down the road in Pedro.
      Now a 26 year resident of the Coastside.

    • @michaelgeraghty3989
      @michaelgeraghty3989 10 месяцев назад

      You’re welcome. In the Palisades, the homes on the west edge of the hill west of the Getty Center are all sliding to the point they don’t even try to maintain solid cement driveways. The cliff just west of the high school is fenced off. The Huntington cliff east of downtown has lost beautiful homes and others cannot be sold. Big Rock in Malibu, Bluebird Canyon in Laguna and Portuguese Bend in Rancho PV all have homes in slide areas, @@LeoMetalTraveler

  • @Grumpy262
    @Grumpy262 10 месяцев назад +11

    I can't even imagine what the home owners insurance is yearly 😮

    • @domcizek
      @domcizek 10 месяцев назад +5

      PROBABLY CAN NOT GET INSURANCE THESE DAYS , TO RISKY

    • @Mechulus
      @Mechulus 3 месяца назад

      It’s cheap, actually. They just don’t cover flood / erosion. Most people in California have no earthquake insurance either.

  • @thedailymakermaking
    @thedailymakermaking 10 месяцев назад +4

    Last year, we almost moved into a unit you showed with the drone. By divine intervention, my husband got an unexpected opportunity in Chicago and we came here instead. I am in shock watching this video. And Leo, please stay safe. ❤

    • @LeoMetalTraveler
      @LeoMetalTraveler  10 месяцев назад +2

      You steered off in the right direction Thanks for sharing!

  • @AthenaSchroedinger
    @AthenaSchroedinger 10 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you for posting this. I have seen that house, the one with the dollar signs, on other videos but never knew that it used to be a radio station. It is very nice to know more of the history of this area.

  • @ranger70
    @ranger70 10 месяцев назад +8

    Honey have you seen the dog. Hilarious. Thanks Leo

  • @HeartTurnedToStone
    @HeartTurnedToStone 10 месяцев назад +8

    This looks like my neighborhood.
    They've had to move 7-8 houses off the bluff so far. Our bluff has receded at least 150' since I moved here in '95.
    I'm a block away from the bluff. At the rate it's receding, I figure in another 10-15 years I'll have a great view and ocean front property. Hehehe

    • @LeoMetalTraveler
      @LeoMetalTraveler  10 месяцев назад +2

      Thanks for sharing. What city is this?

    • @HeartTurnedToStone
      @HeartTurnedToStone 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@LeoMetalTraveler
      I'm between Sequim & Port Angeles in Washington State.

  • @jonimestas9692
    @jonimestas9692 10 месяцев назад +2

    Spectacular narrative. Well done. Thank you.

  • @michelleharrell8452
    @michelleharrell8452 10 месяцев назад +12

    This is interesting as I once lived in Pacific in the early 1980s. When I left & went to the East Bay Area Condos were being built on the cliffs overlooking the ocean. Back in the day in the mid 1980s the condos were starting at $80K for a small one. I wanted to live there but my salary was enough to qualify. They sure looked nice. Probably taken away by the ocean.

    • @UTubeQu1che551
      @UTubeQu1che551 10 месяцев назад +7

      I lived in Pacifica 1963-1968. In the summer we would spend a lot of time at the beach. We kidded about the ocean taking out the entire town. At the time it was total fantasy. Now…maybe not a fantasy…

    • @chriscoughlin9289
      @chriscoughlin9289 10 месяцев назад

      @@UTubeQu1che551 Nope - still a fantasy.
      East Manor, East Sharp Park, East Fairway Park, Vallemar, Rockaway, BoV?
      Not going anywhere.

  • @mundall1271
    @mundall1271 10 месяцев назад +3

    Excellent drone footage of the coastal erosion thank you! I think geological models of coastal erosion rates might need adjustment….

  • @rhondaplait9236
    @rhondaplait9236 10 месяцев назад +2

    Well done! Thank you 💞

  • @roberttaylor9628
    @roberttaylor9628 10 месяцев назад +3

    Thank you for sharing.

  • @cynthialahti-wong1800
    @cynthialahti-wong1800 10 месяцев назад +9

    Gorgeous scenery, you did a fantastic job shooting this video! People are so stupid in their greed to own the best view! Don't even feel sorry for them!

  • @inappropriatejohnson
    @inappropriatejohnson 10 месяцев назад +2

    Pretty great fishing there in Pacifica.......Striped Bass in the surf line, and Salmon further offshore. yummie.

  • @GrandmaBev64
    @GrandmaBev64 10 месяцев назад +4

    Erosion is affecting all of our coastlines. Scary! Why would someone want to live that close to the ocean? I fear the ocean. It's pretty to look at, but I wouldn't want to live there. Thanks for the videos. Every time they put in another post, it weakens the cliff! A few years back, from Google Earth, it looked like someone took a black marker and drew a line around the coast. That black line is gone now. Wonder if that made things erode faster?

    • @cherylm2C6671
      @cherylm2C6671 3 месяца назад

      It seems to progress rather quickly for mere tectonics, but the availability of soil additives, and decades of watered lawns trickling to clay substrates, could have sped things.

  • @janicehavens1395
    @janicehavens1395 10 месяцев назад +3

    I lived in Pacifica in the 70s.and purely was over looking the bluffs but back then you had to be like 2-300 ft from the cliffs.

  • @staceymichaels9530
    @staceymichaels9530 10 месяцев назад +1

    Your videos are incredible, including the ones documenting all of the closed stores. Nature's beauty with human folly. Thank You!!!

    • @LeoMetalTraveler
      @LeoMetalTraveler  10 месяцев назад +1

      So nice of you I will post more videos soon ,thank you

  • @susans2255
    @susans2255 7 месяцев назад

    I’ve watched a lot of the videos on Pacifica, but I have really enjoyed your video more than a lot of the others. Thank you for the background information and showing the photos from Zillow of the homes and lots before the erosion. It’s very interesting to see the before and after. It really puts it in perspective to see how much damage the erosion has done. My heart goes out to these home owners.

  • @AmericanPatriot-1776
    @AmericanPatriot-1776 10 месяцев назад +3

    Great shots Metal Leo! You never fail to impress. Can you imagine walking out and thinking, "WHAT HAPPENED TO MY POOL!!!???? That land is expensive
    until it's gone. Those people had bragging rights for a while.

    • @harriettanthony7352
      @harriettanthony7352 10 месяцев назад

      And I wager the property tax will go UP for less property, its California after all.

  • @nancymcnally1972
    @nancymcnally1972 10 месяцев назад +1

    Great Video Leo

    • @LeoMetalTraveler
      @LeoMetalTraveler  10 месяцев назад

      @nancymcnally1972 thank you ! More to come!

  • @gregboyden564
    @gregboyden564 8 месяцев назад

    thanks for this very informative video. the photography of the eroding bluffs is scary to see. I have lived in Pacifica for 60 years, and have witnessed this erosion as the years go by. you are correct that we are only another big storm away for more houses to sink into the sea.

  • @davidtettleton2732
    @davidtettleton2732 10 месяцев назад +1

    I was trimming a tree on a bluff like that....tied in from above and back , but when i came back the next day the whole area was Gone!

    • @LeoMetalTraveler
      @LeoMetalTraveler  10 месяцев назад +1

      Wow, thank you for sharing. At least you don’t have to worry about trimming anymore.

  • @sf55514
    @sf55514 10 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you for this seriously.

  • @oscarmadison8530
    @oscarmadison8530 10 месяцев назад +5

    Great coverage,Leo.

    • @LeoMetalTraveler
      @LeoMetalTraveler  10 месяцев назад +4

      @oscarmadison8530 thank you for your continued support!

  • @WASF2024
    @WASF2024 10 месяцев назад +4

    When built and until the cliff erosion required neighbor buildings to be torn down, the apartments (condos) along the trail used to be called Land's End. Now they are called Ocean Aire.

    • @bobmalack481
      @bobmalack481 10 месяцев назад

      Come out to Arizona..I'll sell you some ocean front property and all my exe's live in Texas...

  • @bluelava4282
    @bluelava4282 10 месяцев назад +1

    Fantastic footages thanks

  • @beverlygamble4789
    @beverlygamble4789 10 месяцев назад +1

    Wow amazing . I live at the beach here in Smyrna Delaware . We tend to get coastal erosion as well. But not this bad.

  • @Withnail1969
    @Withnail1969 10 месяцев назад +8

    Same thing happens in a number of places in the UK

  • @trishmich1864
    @trishmich1864 10 месяцев назад +1

    👏👏👏 Excellent update! Thank you!

  • @LilacDreams68
    @LilacDreams68 10 месяцев назад +1

    I wouldn’t even walk along where you’re walking. I couldn’t sleep in any of those houses or apartments . I don’t know how they can and I don’t understand why they do. Yikes!

  • @23Dakini
    @23Dakini 10 месяцев назад +1

    Ocean wins…
    This is wild what’s going on. Interesting video.

  • @shelleyragusa9598
    @shelleyragusa9598 10 месяцев назад +5

    My husband and I worked for Land’s End (before the name change to Ocean Air) from 2011-2016! Long ago there used to be a huge waterfront with a gazebo where people got married. I have a picture somewhere showing a huge grassy area in front of Lands End. Mother Nature wins! At some point they are going to have to demo buildings 112.

  • @LandscaperGarry
    @LandscaperGarry 10 месяцев назад +1

    I could NEVER relax in those places now on the edge...I would leave during ANY storm.

  • @502Chevy
    @502Chevy 10 месяцев назад +3

    When I saw the title to this video I wasn’t going to watch it - California falling into the sea is no news. But when I saw it was a Metal Leo video , now that’s different! Jumped right on it! Keep up the good work Leo!.

  • @stephieIB
    @stephieIB 10 месяцев назад +1

    Great ariel footage. 👍

  • @DirtyLilHobo
    @DirtyLilHobo 10 месяцев назад +1

    Reminds me of people who build their homes and businesses on an active volcanic rift, in Iceland's town of Grindavick.

  • @epf888
    @epf888 10 месяцев назад +1

    The beginning of this scared the hell out of me. When u went over that cliff my God. Love your work

    • @LeoMetalTraveler
      @LeoMetalTraveler  10 месяцев назад +1

      @epf888 it looks like I’m peeking over and looking down the cliff, but I did it with the drone😁, thanks for your support!

  • @Curlyblonde
    @Curlyblonde 10 месяцев назад +2

    Saw this erosion happening in Florida as well. Each of the hurricanes eat away at the coastlines. Problem too in the Caribbean.

  • @positivequeenonpurpose
    @positivequeenonpurpose 5 месяцев назад

    Great video... Thanks... My sister lived in walking distance of the ocean there in Pacifica... Its truly a beautiful place... So sorry this is happening... Can't find Mother.

  • @abpccpba
    @abpccpba 10 месяцев назад

    Thanks Leo a real eye opener.

  • @christineboles803
    @christineboles803 10 месяцев назад

    Thank you so much for these wonderful videos. I am in the unenviable position of being the City Council Representative for this vulnerable section of Pacifica. I have forwarded your very helpful videos to our city manager. I also encourage people to read California Against the Sea by Rosanna Xia. Chapter 3 is all about Pacifica, and tells well the story of our divided community - do we fight or plan for the inevitable, can we find a compromise path forward? Huge expense and huge loss either way, and of course we have no money. We really need the state and federal government to step in.

  • @lindamannix1247
    @lindamannix1247 10 месяцев назад +2

    This is too frightening for me !

  • @TrueBeliever6491
    @TrueBeliever6491 10 месяцев назад +2

    Wow. Like so many ppl; 1 storm away of falling off the cliff. Brutal....

  • @LindaDavies-r1k
    @LindaDavies-r1k 10 месяцев назад +1

    This is precisely why I will never live near the ocean. Thank you for the upload 👋👋

  • @hollyr.1139
    @hollyr.1139 6 месяцев назад

    From 1998-2000, I rented an apartment at Land's End on the north side of Pacifica. Even at that time, bricks and bits of roofing and flooring could be found on the beach from homes that had slipped. But what a privilege it was to live with an ocean view, a small grassy park and a wooden stairway to the beach! It breaks my heart that, if I go back, I won't be able to show my travel companion what it was like to live there. The ocean will claim all that was built a quarter-mile -- maybe more -- back from it.

  • @merrywalsh2809
    @merrywalsh2809 10 месяцев назад

    Leo, you are a seriously excellent reporter. Much appreciated ❤

  • @JustFluffyQuiltingYarnCrafts
    @JustFluffyQuiltingYarnCrafts 9 месяцев назад

    Your great drone footage really reinforces how precarious the situation is in Pacifica. Thank you for all your hard work, my Friend. ❤😍 I miss seeing you and am looking forward to your new videos once they are ready. 😉

  • @marccastro9911
    @marccastro9911 Месяц назад

    I used to live at 101 West Avalon a block up from Esplanade back in the 1970s. I remember all the homes and buildings that were on the cliffs edge and are no gone.

  • @christineblackshaw876
    @christineblackshaw876 3 месяца назад

    Excellent video, thanks Leo

  • @thekingcobra63
    @thekingcobra63 9 месяцев назад

    This is my hometown, born and raised. Even when there seemed to be plenty of distance from the edge of those cliffs we knew the erosion would one day win. Now what we knew 40 years ago has come to be.

  • @MrMojabo
    @MrMojabo 10 месяцев назад +3

    Interesting enough. I lived the the Pacific skies Trailer park as a teenager. I graduated from Oceana HS in 1971. And the trailer park still looks the same. People wher falling off the Cliffs in Manor back then. It's a Pacifica way of life.

  • @URRT
    @URRT 10 месяцев назад

    How truly sad to see such beautiful land fall into the ocean!

  • @thegonz7833
    @thegonz7833 10 месяцев назад +1

    excellent video

  • @wendypeacock-frail
    @wendypeacock-frail 9 месяцев назад

    Wow, I have been watching Pacifica disappear for at least 6 years. I found drone footage when the cement stairs were first cordoned off. I always loved that last townhouse at the end of the foot path. It's so sad. I hope I can get down to CA sometime to visit that lovely town.

  • @stevens1041
    @stevens1041 10 месяцев назад +8

    In some places, we built too close to the ocean. Isn't there one street in Daly City up on the cliffs where a lot of the homes had to be demolished a few decades ago? Half the street fell into the ocean. Edit: Its on Skyline

    • @LeoMetalTraveler
      @LeoMetalTraveler  10 месяцев назад +3

      I’m going to research on that. Thank you for the tip.

    • @mikeifyouplease
      @mikeifyouplease 10 месяцев назад

      @@LeoMetalTraveler Leo, you can actually get the original land plot maps, and then compare them to Google maps...to see how much larger the Pacific Palisades
      area (of Daly City) used to be. Or if you have the time, you can drive there. It is a very small area of town, but seeing it yourself will be a real eye-opener!
      Decades ago (when I lived in the area) I used to think that if you had a really strong spoon, you could bring down the homes that were 100 feet up taller than the beach, because the sand on the beach, was the exact same sand that the cliffs were composed of.

    • @suzannebenning2555
      @suzannebenning2555 10 месяцев назад +1

      Are there any photos or maps that show how much more land there was when the buildings were built? I’m annoyed at people who criticize but don’t know the history of the area.

    • @jngx80
      @jngx80 10 месяцев назад +1

      I was driving down skyline just last month during sunset and it was a beautiful sight but then thought about erosion and how living on a cliff sucks. Flowing Water can pretty much destroy anything given enough time.
      Oddly I never ventured along that area and didn't even know it existed. Was telling my wife that we should go there sometime to watch the sunset together.

    • @susanharris5926
      @susanharris5926 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@suzannebenning2555 What has the history got to do with it? If you build near a cliff edge, you should know that it will eventually be back in the ocean. There isn't a piece of land that meets the ocean that hasn't gone this way eventually. I would never build or buy anywhere near a cliff edge (and I live on an island).

  • @joefergerson5243
    @joefergerson5243 10 месяцев назад +1

    The ocean is relentless 😮

  • @patrick247two
    @patrick247two 10 месяцев назад

    Twelve homes were constructed in 1949 at the top of a sea cliff along Esplanade Drive in the City of Pacifica, located on the northern coast of San Mateo County, California. The rear yards of those properties were bounded by an approximately 20-meter (70-foot) high cliff that has retreated episodically at an average rate of 0.5 to 0.6 meter (1.5 to 2 feet) per year over the past 146 years.

  • @222jojo
    @222jojo 2 месяца назад

    @ 3:45 in your video, I lived in those apartments from 2014 to 2017, unbelievable how much has eroded in just a few years. I did love living there, never needed A/C, the sound of the ocean, and the amazing views. Totally unsafe now.

  • @bayareacali
    @bayareacali 3 месяца назад

    I love going to Pacifica, I used to go every day and have my lunch by the cliff. Sad for the homeowners losing their land.

  • @janeceeastwood8035
    @janeceeastwood8035 10 месяцев назад

    We never think the worst will happen to us. Cliff side views are beautiful. Mother Nature always wins.

  • @margaretdrew2844
    @margaretdrew2844 9 месяцев назад +1

    The houses were probably not near the edge when they bought them. The cliffs have gradually eroded and they have been eaten away by nature .

  • @goykafkayetygostcreature4772
    @goykafkayetygostcreature4772 10 месяцев назад +1

    I use to fly my hang glider over that cliff in 1973. It was eroding then

  • @sebastiancortez8870
    @sebastiancortez8870 10 месяцев назад

    This is my favorite video you've done!!! Great work!!!

    • @LeoMetalTraveler
      @LeoMetalTraveler  10 месяцев назад

      @sebastiancortez8870 thank you is my favorite video too. I’m going to make more videos like this one.

  • @Carlsbaddest
    @Carlsbaddest 3 месяца назад

    Oh but wait, the view is just gorgeous!

  • @sunseeker8457
    @sunseeker8457 5 месяцев назад

    An nice update to this would be before and after pictures of some of the houses so we get a better understanding how much has ended up in the ocean.