Land Movement in Palos Verdes Creates a New Coastline and Uncovers Fossils in Stretch of Shoreline

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  • Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
  • www.JasonBuck.com takes you through Land Movement in Palos Verdes Creates a New Coastline and Uncovers Fossils in Stretch of Shoreline.
    The Trails and Access to the Coastline has been CLOSED and there is NO ACCESS to this area.
    I have been a lifelong native of Palos Verdes and visited Portuguese Bend Beach Club since the 1980's. in the 1950's while cutting the road for Crenshaw to come down the backside of the hill to PVDS a natural spring was ruptured which started the land movement. Before 2020 this land had moved approximately 600 feet and many homes were not on their land anymore. The entire area had been moving as well as PVDS which is constantly under repair.
    The City of RPV has several zones within the Portuguese Bend are and many have had a "moritorium" for building. There was a lawsuit where several homeowners proved that their land was not moving and were granted the ability to build known as the Monk lots which was finally approved in 2009.
    From casetext.com/c...
    On September 15, 2009, the city council adopted Ordinance 498, which established a new exception to the 1978 moratorium, allowing plaintiffs to develop their 16 lots. Section 8 of the ordinance set forth the application process: a signed "Landslide Moratorium Exception" (LME) application submitted to the director of planning, building, and code enforcement; a letter setting forth the reason for the request and a full description of the project; a site plan; a grading plan (if grading was proposed); geological, geotechnical, soils, and other reports required by the city to demonstrate that the proposed project would not aggravate the existing situation; and an application fee. Ordinance 498 took effect on October 15, 2009.
    Many of the Monk lots have been built and some of those homes are curently on the market for sale.
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    The moritorium is now back in place for Portuguese Bend and some surrounding area's as the heavy rainfall in the last two years has activated the slide and its moving more now than ever before and expanded to include the Seaview neighborhood to the South and Wayfarers Chappel to the North. There are a few area's that are moving nearly an inch a day. There is one spot between the Limetree and Narcissa gate that was always called the "ski jump" that is the most visible movement in the area and will crack and change just days after being repaved.
    Down at the beach club, there is a brand new reef emerging out of the ocean. This was underwater six months ago and lots of bentonite is rising along the coastline. There is a brand new sandy beach in this area along with a reef out into the ocean. Also, the paddle tennis courts have been removed and the volleyball court was moved as that stretch of beach has risen nearly 20 feet which historically was all flat. Its incredible and still moving daily.
    Check out this Great post from Steve Shriver posted in the Palos Verdes California Historical Group.
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    Steve was in the video talking about the fossils as well as Joe Cocke who is a local fossil finder - check out his book Fossils of Palos Verdes Hills.
    I really love exploring in this area and very grateful that its close to home. I hope that no homes are lost and the slide can be controlled- we will see...
    Pleaes feel free to reach out to me.
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Комментарии • 692

  • @Krypt24
    @Krypt24 3 месяца назад +270

    Citizen journalism is the best way to find real, truthful news these days. It's an invaluable service. Thank you, Mr. Buck.

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  3 месяца назад +9

      @@Krypt24 thanks for watching

    • @Natty183
      @Natty183 2 месяца назад +5

      And we can connect through webs of interest. Reaping the rewards of being a cognitively diverse social species is so important. Not just to survival but to the quality of our day-to-day lives. It makes me cry, I'm such a nerd 😂

    • @dizzymindy6024
      @dizzymindy6024 2 месяца назад +7

      You know, I agree with you. I don’t watch the news, but I do follow RUclipsrs whom I respect.

    • @DaveR-d9n
      @DaveR-d9n 2 месяца назад +3

      @@PalosVerdesHousesin your personal experience, do you think the whole Peninsula will go bye bye? Since the movement is definitely moving weekly and very noticeable.

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  2 месяца назад +5

      @@DaveR-d9n no. Most of Palos Verdes is on bedrock called PV Stone. The PB area has a layer of bentonite which is causing the slide. It is an isolated area of slippery gray clay like material.

  • @ut000bs
    @ut000bs Месяц назад +29

    Amazing. That beach you're walking on at 4:30, for example, was not there last year. I can understand your fascination with it. Such things led me to geophysics.
    Thank you so much for this. You cannot get information like this from the regular sources. Videos like this are what RUclips was made for in my opinion.

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  Месяц назад +4

      its changing daily, and noticable after a few days. really unfortunate for the homeowners

    • @ut000bs
      @ut000bs Месяц назад +1

      @@PalosVerdesHouses I watched a video here of a couple on the road that "used to be 55mph" went up then back down that short but very steep hill. When they went down it, just from the view outside the window, you felt that sharp drop. I chuckled.
      If they can adequately drain it perhaps it could be saved but…
      (They don't have that much money.)
      Edit: there has to be a video of a truck that didn't make it up that hill. 😉

    • @MarioCanez
      @MarioCanez Месяц назад

      Nice,,no more only private beach😂😂😂

  • @MikeNaples
    @MikeNaples Месяц назад +33

    Hard to imagine all those fossils just lying on the beach. Seems like would be a dream for a young paleontologist.

    • @alexhajnal107
      @alexhajnal107 14 дней назад

      The world's first true paleontologist made her finds on a beach. (Mary Anning, at Lyme Regis along the English Channel in the UK.)

  • @BaltimoreAndOhioRR
    @BaltimoreAndOhioRR 19 дней назад +4

    You are right, that _is_ fascinating! Thanks for posting! 👍👍

  • @lunacavemoth
    @lunacavemoth 3 месяца назад +89

    I've been exploring this specific coast, doing amatuer paleobiology and geology. I'm hoping to get accepted into the new UCLA school and start a PHD on all this action. You basically made a video I was hoping to make. In fact, I was hanging out with my wife near one of the newly formed pools. I think you probably passed right by us, asked for permission as you walked right by our bare feet.
    There's a couple of huge petrified stumps that also got unearthed. I'll probably make the video now that I'm inspired. The history here goes way back. But essentially the easy answer here is that the cliffs and entire landmass itself is being uplifted by tectonic forces. We could pump out all the water and the land would still crumble as it rises. I'm not a local; I live in South Central but chose to teach in Palos Verdes this Summer so I can be closer to the Landslide.
    I see a lot of hate between locals and LA people, negative comments back and forth and people being happy that homes are being destroyed. Really all I care about is the petrified wood which contains a record of our climate from the past. All that precious information is just being exposed and washed away while everyone sleeps. Anyways thanks for the inspiration.

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  2 месяца назад +8

      The benotnite is breaking down and creating a cloud of clay all along the shoreline.

    • @johninfante9420
      @johninfante9420 2 месяца назад +7

      Let me know if you ever go exploring there!! I wanna tag along. Another college student interested in exploring this new world

    • @donmertle9099
      @donmertle9099 2 месяца назад +2

      I look forward to you documenting your geologic observations.

    • @nabi5864
      @nabi5864 2 месяца назад +2

      Awesome, Im guessing the new SouthBay UCLA campus formerly Marymount campus

    • @ZqO-cr2pt
      @ZqO-cr2pt 2 месяца назад +6

      Love that you live in s.central but choose to teach in Palos Verdes. I'm a novice as far as paleobiology and geology goes but it fascinates. I'm grateful I have lived close to this area all my life . I have also unfortunately lived in s.central so I can appreciate the fresh air here by the ocean. No hate from me brother. Enjoy.

  • @Irene94087
    @Irene94087 3 месяца назад +129

    Mother Nature just moving her furniture around

    • @TutuSainz
      @TutuSainz 3 месяца назад +4

      I love this reply. I agree thank you.

    • @monicaclark9581
      @monicaclark9581 Месяц назад +2

      Exactly. Especially the California shoreline. Taking a chance in building homes on such a geography.

    • @fastm3980
      @fastm3980 Месяц назад +1

      Awesome comment... That's what I see hiking fascinating stuff

    • @evetsnitram8866
      @evetsnitram8866 3 дня назад +1

      Palos Verdes used to be one of the channel islands a few million years back.

    • @fastm3980
      @fastm3980 3 дня назад

      @@evetsnitram8866 Seriously 👀

  • @cathrinedoyle2268
    @cathrinedoyle2268 Месяц назад +32

    You should keep a running video diary of the changes in the beach and landscape - showing the world the changes in Palos Verdes!!!

    • @mattdelany6799
      @mattdelany6799 Месяц назад

      Nobody cares

    • @bluetomato8698
      @bluetomato8698 Месяц назад +4

      I care. I’d love to see the changes over time.
      And any new fossils you might find..

    • @hikerdude5265
      @hikerdude5265 Месяц назад +2

      I agree. I would look forward to seeing an updated video showing the changes during a given time.

  • @SethDickson-90277
    @SethDickson-90277 Месяц назад +5

    As a kid my grandfather took us on many hikes starting at Torrance Beach and finally ending in San Pedro, I would have never believed you that there as a beach in that location. Amazing video!

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  Месяц назад +1

      there was not one here last holiday season.. its astonishing how much its changed in this area

  • @beachcaving
    @beachcaving Месяц назад +18

    Earth is a living, breathing, moving being just like us!🤘💙🇺🇸

  • @johnearnest5441
    @johnearnest5441 Месяц назад +5

    I grew up on the peninsula back in the 60s and 70s. We used to surf PBC where a left hander would break off the sea wall. The beach was rock with only a smattering of sand. I remember seeing neighborhood garages that were jacked up and garage doors unable to close; one half of a house would be fine and the other half would be a wreck. It was crazy. There was the old pier out toward Abalone Cove and we filmed a chase scene on it for a class at Miraleste High School. The land was like nothing I had ever seen - jumbled and falling to pieces. It was an amazing place to grow up and your video reminded me of how magical it was for a kid.

    • @malanalan1
      @malanalan1 25 дней назад

      And people kept buying and developing properties there. And now they want tax payers to bail them out.

  • @IBRAKEFORBEDROCK
    @IBRAKEFORBEDROCK 3 месяца назад +153

    They will never stop that land from moving. The contractors will get rich trying though

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  2 месяца назад +3

      it didn't move as much during the drought

    • @DenisDamulira23
      @DenisDamulira23 2 месяца назад +18

      @@PalosVerdesHouses True but what happens when the massive ocean finds a pathway underneath the land? it will then start to move much faster. If it were me, I'd count my loses and move especially those much closer to the coastal line.

    • @deborahwood9304
      @deborahwood9304 Месяц назад +12

      Nature will always find a way to take back what we tried to tame. It might take a dozen years it might take thousands but we're not stopping it 😆

    • @MeMeVoyageOf
      @MeMeVoyageOf Месяц назад +14

      As will the ruthless real estate agents selling this to dopey people. Pure evil.

    • @darrenlocke5627
      @darrenlocke5627 Месяц назад

      😅interesting, thanks

  • @ellef7783
    @ellef7783 Месяц назад +14

    Wow that’s a beautiful area with beautiful homes! I cannot believe anyone buying a home in that area would build on what could - eventually disappear into the sand!

    • @kayhalas4974
      @kayhalas4974 Месяц назад +1

      I grew up in Rancho Palos Verdes. I’m 52 now and my parents still live there. But when they moved there in the early 1980s they knew about the sliding. Where they live is high up on the hill. They have a view of the ports of Long Beach and San Pedro, the breakwater and a little bit of the ocean outside of the breakwater. Most of the view is of the city lights. It’s the same city but miles away from the slide areas. It’s always been sliding and it was never a secret. People who bought homes in the slide area knew it. A lot of them would justify it and say it only slides 1-2” per year. But to buy a home and pay a lot of money for it in a known slide area is not the smartest move. My parents wanted to move there for the school district and they worked hard. But they never would have bought a house that was slowly sliding into the ocean. People pay $2-3 million for a tiny house in the slide area. If the area was not sliding into the ocean the houses would be more expensive. In the 1920s the area was surveyed and was unstable then. Then in the 1950s there were slides with one of them happening in 1956. I don’t understand how people think that it somehow would stop sliding. There is a lot more to the area and there are gorgeous homes that are not in the slide area.

  • @ChristieReed7282
    @ChristieReed7282 Месяц назад +20

    Man, it’s a great place to be beach combing daily right now. Imagine the fossils… Who knows what it will turn up. Great video 🙏❤️

    • @AnnaMarie-rn2wp
      @AnnaMarie-rn2wp Месяц назад +2

      Eastern Shore of Virginia here. That was my thought also. Geology and Fossils and Artifacts what a way to spend the day.

    • @alwaysyouramanda
      @alwaysyouramanda Месяц назад +3

      Or or or we could get buried alive

    • @valeriemarott1923
      @valeriemarott1923 Месяц назад

      ​@@alwaysyouramandaGlass half empty Amanda?😂😅

  • @melissaj8384
    @melissaj8384 2 месяца назад +33

    When we lived in Manhattan Beach in the 1970s, the Palos Verdes roads were moving back then.

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  2 месяца назад +12

      yes, the slide in Portuguese Bend started in the 50's when they were making Crenshaw blvd and ruptured a spring..

    • @Leipuanani
      @Leipuanani Месяц назад +2

      ​@@PalosVerdesHouses Great information. Thank you!

    • @db-rc5fr
      @db-rc5fr Месяц назад

      @@PalosVerdesHousesWhat spring? Where?

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  Месяц назад

      @@db-rc5fr under ground.

  • @regularjoe621
    @regularjoe621 Месяц назад +28

    The earth is constantly changing 👍👍

  • @marknunez2351
    @marknunez2351 2 месяца назад +11

    I grew up in San Pedro and used to go to Portuguese Bend back in the '70's. We used to swim across the channels, at the point. and swam into the caves timing the wave surge. There used to be an old broken down wooden pier. that we would climb up and jump off the end of ! There used to be some big purple Jellyfish that we would avoid! Thanks for the memories!!

  • @sharonletts88
    @sharonletts88 Месяц назад +7

    I grew up hiking those cliffs, including the abandoned Vanderlip estate - hung out at Sacred Cove in the 80s. It’s always been moving, never any guarantees.
    In light of the current situation, sounds like it’s time to give up the ghost for many up there. Nature always wins.

  • @bjlong4452
    @bjlong4452 Месяц назад +3

    I was always fascinated with this area as I lived not too far away and remember visiting Marineland many times as a kid. Going to Harbor College in 1979 and taking Geology we had a field
    trip and learned about this area. I was fascinated and would enjoy sharing my knowledge with all the visitors we took to the area and visiting the glass church. I was a guest at a friend’s wedding at the glass church. Such a beautiful place. Holds a special place in my ❤.

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  Месяц назад

      i miss Marineland. I wish that Terranea would have adopted some of the tanks, baja reef, and some of the rescue projects and help the community learn about our sealife offshore.. ohh well. Marineland was also used to help rescue animals that were hurt or with disease.

  • @marisayoung796
    @marisayoung796 Месяц назад +9

    Way cool survey of conditions - thanks! Glad to learn about the fossils and bentonite.
    But still, so sorry others are losing their homes to this circumstance.

  • @philvie
    @philvie 2 месяца назад +22

    That is a huge amount of land moving, great report

  • @DaveBartholomew-uf6sm
    @DaveBartholomew-uf6sm 3 месяца назад +106

    This is one of the best reports about what is going on. A Geologist in another report said the all of this movement is much deeper that anyone realizes. I have been watching some RUclips videos about Geology, something that was not available years ago when I was traveling the US a lot. This appears to be the result of the Pacific plate sliding under the North American plate. It is called subduction and I think this is what is happening at Palos Verdes. Just a thought from an old guy who stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night. Chuckle, Chuckle. I am surprised more Geologists have not been out there to see what is happening. Maybe they have, and there is not any reporting on it.

    • @marktwaine9344
      @marktwaine9344 3 месяца назад +5

      more mountains forming...

    • @GSMSfromFV
      @GSMSfromFV 3 месяца назад +22

      The Palos Verdes Fault Zone (PVFZ) is not where the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate collide and subduct. Per my understanding, this area of California is where the subduction zone converted to a right lateral slip zone about 20 million years ago, and is now known as the San Andreas Fault, which is about 100 miles east, northeast from Palos Verdes. One article describes the PVFZ as a right-lateral reverse displacement.

    • @DaveBartholomew-uf6sm
      @DaveBartholomew-uf6sm 3 месяца назад +12

      @@GSMSfromFV Thank you. I did a little more research and found that. But what explains the lifting of the beach that Jason was pointing out. If the Farrallon and Pacific plates a sliding along to the north and are not subducting in Southern Calif., then there must be a deformity that is lifting the beach at that point. Is there something specific I could go research to help me understand this. Again, just a novice here trying to understand a little more about our planet. Thanks.

    • @GSMSfromFV
      @GSMSfromFV 3 месяца назад +16

      @@DaveBartholomew-uf6sm - I think the heavy weight of the cliff-line is pushing down on the deep down underlying layers of rock/sediment, causing it to squeeze out and up . . . . very similar to what happened at the Black's Beach landslide last year down in La Jolla. Check out that video at the end. Very fascinating.

    • @DBartWest
      @DBartWest 3 месяца назад +3

      @@GSMSfromFVThank you.

  • @Lala-up3ib
    @Lala-up3ib Месяц назад +4

    The ocean is revealing her secrets. Oceans not rising....the land is! Wild!

  • @UrsulaPainter
    @UrsulaPainter 3 месяца назад +85

    The earth is a living organism. You can't stop it from moving. Human beings need to adapt to the environment.

    • @Thefloorsspeakyiddish
      @Thefloorsspeakyiddish 3 месяца назад +4

      Don’t forget we’re living too, don’t turn your back on your own kind just because a cliff fell into the sea

    • @gingerdrumwright6000
      @gingerdrumwright6000 3 месяца назад +3

      ​@@Thefloorsspeakyiddish😂😂we live because of mother earth..... Bless your heart.....

    • @28704joe
      @28704joe 2 месяца назад +2

      Not as long as we have food delivery.

    • @missingremote4388
      @missingremote4388 2 месяца назад +1

      All of the mountains on earth desire to be flat and are falling to the sea (sea level).

    • @paulrinehart4262
      @paulrinehart4262 Месяц назад +2

      The earth moves and little man cannot do much except stay out of the way.

  • @theresehopkins1581
    @theresehopkins1581 2 месяца назад +7

    "A moratorium for building until they can get the ground to stop moving."🤔
    Now there's a sentence...... quite a sentence.... 🙏 Excellent video Sir!! ❤🙏

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  2 месяца назад

      @@theresehopkins1581 thanks for watching. When we were in a drought there was a lot less movement.

  • @JoeCocke
    @JoeCocke 3 месяца назад +22

    Jason you really did a great job on this video. I like it a lot and thank you for sending it my way. Keep in touch. Joe

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  3 месяца назад +2

      Thanks for your input. We need to go back- it's changed a lot since we were there.

  • @ericfielding2540
    @ericfielding2540 2 месяца назад +15

    Thanks for sharing this visit to the beach that is changing so rapidly due to the landslide movements. It is excellent documentation of the changing landscape for geologists to view.

  • @hizacaine
    @hizacaine 2 месяца назад +22

    Bentonite isn't just slippery when wet, it's super slippery; it expands many times over when wet and that really helps the ground move. The whole area from Abalone to San Pedro has bentonite. Sunken City started collapsing long before the events 1929 and it will keep moving long after the neighborhood above is gone to the sea.

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  2 месяца назад

      is there bentonite at Sunken City?

    • @parteibonza
      @parteibonza Месяц назад

      that's terrible. that bentonite is great for making greensand, but it looks so ugly on that beach. what a cursed land. Although, i must say, its great for fossils and geologist studies. I'll stick to the beauty of the desert.

  • @juliahelland6488
    @juliahelland6488 Месяц назад +31

    I just watched the news reporting on shutting off electricity to a 140 homes in RPV. I'm afraid the land shifting is beyond reversal.

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  Месяц назад +4

      that may be possible. There is a lot of open land, so the danger of fire from a downed power line is severe and forced Edison to shut the power off.

    • @caterinalopez5297
      @caterinalopez5297 Месяц назад +3

      THE LAND SHIFTING IS BEYOND REVERSAL. Duh

  • @moerevlu1
    @moerevlu1 Месяц назад +13

    Those fossils are amazing.

    • @myownbiz5461
      @myownbiz5461 Месяц назад

      In a couple thousand years, what's left of those homes will be the "fossils".

  • @blakebufford6239
    @blakebufford6239 Месяц назад +2

    Mr Buck I really enjoyed your observations and enthusiasm and historical perspective. Thanks!!

  • @martinprice6215
    @martinprice6215 Месяц назад +3

    Your video explains a lot of the changes that are going on. Thanks.
    The ancient landslide extends to the ocean shore and while one end of it is subsiding near the top, this end is rising as the slide mass is moving. Not as dramatic at the bottom but just as relentless.

  • @williamlloyd3769
    @williamlloyd3769 3 месяца назад +29

    Recall driving through the area as a kid on family outings to PV and occasional trips to Marineland of the Pacific.

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  3 месяца назад +6

      @@williamlloyd3769 I miss Marineland.. was a marvelous spot

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  2 месяца назад +3

      I miss Marineland too!!

    • @Mychellechic
      @Mychellechic 2 месяца назад +1

      Same parents took me and siblings grandparents there for my 9th bday. So beautiful.❤

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  2 месяца назад

      @@Mychellechic great place for a birthday!

    • @lindaschuster1955
      @lindaschuster1955 Месяц назад +1

      I miss it too!! Went there a lot as a kid growing up in SoCal. Don’t miss the earthquakes😜

  • @deldena
    @deldena 3 месяца назад +68

    he actually said, "until they get the land to stop moving." that sounds like a futile statement to me.

    • @miraid06
      @miraid06 3 месяца назад +22

      Some people have a god complex. I really realized that in Hawaii. Natives had a different respect for nature. Didn’t build in certain areas. Then others came and wonder why their houses and bridges keep getting washed away. When I lived there, I always told my kids: “if locals aren’t in the water, you need not be either.”

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  3 месяца назад +5

      @@deldena the land did not move as much during the draught.. after the heavy rains there has been a lot more movement.

    • @michaelacookePDX
      @michaelacookePDX Месяц назад +5

      @@PalosVerdesHouses Now a month after you posted this things have worsened with apparently an additional unknown slide plane being discovered. Is there still any sense that this can be stopped?

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  Месяц назад +3

      @@michaelacookePDX unfortunately not yet. now power and gas have been shut off to a large section of the area.

    • @walterfredrickson3887
      @walterfredrickson3887 Месяц назад

      It is never going yo be stopped. Maybe delayed?

  • @seanhopper149
    @seanhopper149 3 месяца назад +18

    Fascinating - thank you for sharing your knowledge of your home town

  • @palace927
    @palace927 Месяц назад +11

    Bentonite is an absorbent swelling clay. As a swelling clay bentonite has the ability to absorb large quantities of water, which increases its volume by up to a factor of 8. This makes bentonite beds unsuitable for building and road construction.

  • @alliedsandblasting9211
    @alliedsandblasting9211 3 месяца назад +20

    About 20 years ago we spent 6 months filling every septic tank with gravel when they went to above ground sewer system due to movement

    • @alwaysyouramanda
      @alwaysyouramanda Месяц назад +6

      They’re about to have a nasty sewage spill next

    • @jimmydee1130
      @jimmydee1130 Месяц назад

      @@alwaysyouramanda Which is why they moved the lines above ground, Sweetheart

  • @moerevlu1
    @moerevlu1 Месяц назад +8

    Just watched your video. I lived in RPV in the early 80s . What a wonderful memory! Thanks for tour! I now live in Naples Florida I’ll keep watching

    • @MeMeVoyageOf
      @MeMeVoyageOf Месяц назад

      From one unstable peninsula to the next. Nice 👍!!!

    • @ut000bs
      @ut000bs Месяц назад

      @@MeMeVoyageOf what is unstable about the Florida peninsula?

  • @DeniseDDS
    @DeniseDDS Месяц назад +9

    Thank you so much for showing this.

  • @LarryMcNeely-me4px
    @LarryMcNeely-me4px Месяц назад +5

    I am 70 and grew up on the beach south of here. City of HB. I watched this area as a kid; even then, we saw the ground movement and how the roads shifted to the point where gas and water lines were built above the streets.

    • @33piolin
      @33piolin Месяц назад

      Me too‼️

  • @frankmacleod2565
    @frankmacleod2565 3 месяца назад +13

    Excellent video. Can't wait to check out the new beach next Christmas

  • @KAPhelps
    @KAPhelps Месяц назад +2

    My siblings and I grew up there. Silver Spur, Malaga Cove and Rolling Hills. Some of my family still lives there. Such a magical magnificent place! Thank you so much for your perspective and video, makes me long for those hills!

  • @la-gl4uh
    @la-gl4uh Месяц назад +18

    I hope the residents in that area realize they must move out now. Eventually winter rains and earthquake activity will cause a massive landslide towards the ocean.

    • @45876
      @45876 Месяц назад

      They are trying by selling at the current " market price" somewhere around $5M and hopefully some fool will pay for their exist.

    • @jeannetteashlin1725
      @jeannetteashlin1725 26 дней назад

      I don't think earthquakes so much will bring it down. It's the clay that's wet and heavy pulling it down.

  • @lynnda8764
    @lynnda8764 Месяц назад +2

    This is one of the better posts I think I've ever seen on YT. Absolutely fascinating! Thank you for sharing your historical knowledge of the area past and present. It is a difficult subject to broach, knowing that so many people will undoubtedly lose their homes quite soon, it appears. However, this is truly a unique and rare opportunity to observe this earth doing what it will do in spite of the human component. Thank you for walking this beautiful bit of coastline and putting forth the visible facts of this massive land movement. Facts the general public might never be told by mainstream media. Oh yes, the comments are outstanding! I'm sure you're enjoying reading them all.

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  Месяц назад

      @@lynnda8764 thanks for watching. Actually, the comments have been tough. I appreciate your comment and common sense, however, some other people are harsh and accuse me of foul play when they really have no idea what's going on. Fact is; the movement and situation has changed and the community is now trying to work together to stop more loss.
      Thank you for your kind thoughtful words)

    • @martinprice6215
      @martinprice6215 Месяц назад

      @@lynnda8764 Many have been negatively impacted by the RPV slide. They are angry and blame others for their loss. Cannot really blame them. But the geologists, engineers and construction contractors can only do so much. Nature bats last.

  • @RobRamsay-w7x
    @RobRamsay-w7x 2 месяца назад +3

    Mahalo Jason for the best tour of the Portuguese bend beach You are the local. God bless PV

  • @stuntgirl56-therachelvande24
    @stuntgirl56-therachelvande24 Месяц назад +15

    The power of the Pacific should never be underestimated. It seems people may have forgot about how this land got here and how quickly the Pacific can reclaim. The power of the Ocean is nothing to downplay. It can bring in a school bus size tree like a feather and toss it around and show you what it can do then take the tree to Japan as the flow of the currents redeposit and alter the World

    • @jimmydee1130
      @jimmydee1130 Месяц назад +3

      Except in this case the Pacific's got nothing to do with it. The Palos Verdes Block is growing taller, and as it does the top layer is sloughing off the underlying clay bentonite.

  • @miguelromero1538
    @miguelromero1538 Месяц назад +2

    Thank you. Its awesome hearing all this from somebody who grew up in the area. Keep it up

  • @coolhand6669
    @coolhand6669 3 месяца назад +15

    I spent most of my early life on that Beach it changed about 30 years ago after some big storms there used to be some wonderful tide pools that were really long and had lots of Life they were covered now looks like a lot of stuff coming back and the original appears you were showing that was from the Portuguese Bend Pier but it's nice to see the beach coming back in that old area I hope that this happens to unlock the wonderful tide pools that were filled up I Boogie boarded and surfed out there when they're used to have good waves also

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  3 месяца назад +1

      there are still some tidepools near the cave at the point.

  • @maegardnermills4292
    @maegardnermills4292 Месяц назад +1

    Thank you. My GG grandfather was from Portugal. He lived in Lisbon and the Azores. He worked on whaling ships. It was interesting to see the shore and discoveries on your video.
    ❤ dove❤

  • @LeTrashPanda
    @LeTrashPanda 3 месяца назад +8

    Former RHHS grad, got fond memories of Rat Beach and the tide pools I'd love to explore the fossils that are now uncovered. I also remember that hairpin turn Tiger Woods cracked up on.

    • @JK-ks3xq
      @JK-ks3xq 2 месяца назад +2

      Hawthorne & Blackhorse!

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  2 месяца назад +1

      Tiger crashed going down Hawthorne Blvd past Blackhorse before PVDN.

  • @PK-gi2qh
    @PK-gi2qh 2 месяца назад +4

    I lived at 1 lime tree and also 3 limetree. We renovated both houses. It was such an incredible place to live, and the cove down there is really cool, I loved how it was like being an old california. There's no huge beach parking lots for the masses of inland heirs to come ruin it. RPV and that reserve at Portuguese bend is it incredible place, very magical. And the land movement keeps it that way

  • @Jim-fe2xz
    @Jim-fe2xz 3 месяца назад +14

    It shows how big the earth and nature are and how insignificant we humans are. There are still some that don't get that LOL!!

    • @alwaysyouramanda
      @alwaysyouramanda Месяц назад

      What’s wild is with allll of this land in the US, we insist on “terraforming” despite our massive failures

  • @hw260
    @hw260 2 месяца назад +5

    Hi Jason. Thanks for the tour. Haven't been there since 1969-70. Went to school there. It looks very different. Brought back memories of hanging at the Portuguese Beach Club. Wow.

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  2 месяца назад

      In the last 6 months the movement has increased tremendously.. its changing constantly.

    • @hw260
      @hw260 2 месяца назад +1

      @@PalosVerdesHouses That must be challenging for your business. Makes for hesitant buyers.

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  2 месяца назад +1

      @@hw260 true - its the second most popular question right now. the slide is an isolated area and not affecting all of Palos Verdes, there has been some mis-information out there.

  • @catebessencourt2137
    @catebessencourt2137 Месяц назад +1

    Thank you 😊
    Very informative, as a Southern Californian I appreciate this very much !

  • @melodyhart1331
    @melodyhart1331 2 месяца назад +5

    This fascinating to see I live in the mountains of North Alabama,I love geology, California is an active state.

  • @tierrahill8949
    @tierrahill8949 2 месяца назад +4

    I grew up in Lakewood so not terribly far from PV but I remember visiting and my dad used to say it was gonna end up in the ocean,so sad because it’s beautiful 🥺

  • @CelesteandMayMay
    @CelesteandMayMay 3 месяца назад +4

    Amazing video❤ I grew up in Portuguese Bend and still have family there. It is really unreal how much it changed.

  • @ChristieReed7282
    @ChristieReed7282 Месяц назад +2

    Man, it’s a great place to be beach combing daily right now. Who knows what it will turn up. Great video 🙏❤️

  • @victoriamccargar1813
    @victoriamccargar1813 Месяц назад +2

    Man, what a public service and a fascinating piece of breaking news! I grew up around the bend in San Pedro and still have a few Pleistocene fossils we pulled out of the dirt when the LAPD station near Channel Street was being excavated in the early 1960s. Thinking like a taxpayer, I'll say that the evidence of slides is everywhere in PV and always has been, so I'm not sure why the people in the current Portuguese Bend slide area think it's feasible to be compensated by the government. While it's sliding, the entire coastline is still rising out of the sea, amazing and beautiful to watch. But there are some places that shouldn't be developed, and Portuguese Bend is one of them.

  • @Emily-ou5xv
    @Emily-ou5xv 2 месяца назад +4

    Awesome video, Jason! Thank you for sharing ❤

  • @lindapotts4557
    @lindapotts4557 21 день назад +1

    So interesting. My brother lives up in Portuguese Bend, the gated community. You may know him and his wife, Mac and Joan Mcclellan. They are working to save their house. What a beautiful area. We visit every summer.

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  20 дней назад

      I am sending good vibes for them to fix and continue to enjoy the area! its a challenging time and I wish them the best

  • @NanaOneAZ
    @NanaOneAZ Месяц назад +6

    In addition to the great changes in the shoe line you illustrate, this is a great lesson in what we might wish for. As a child in LA our family may have driven by this area, amazed at the beauty that money could buy. The people who live here now have challenges that I hope are surmountable. I wish them all the luck and strength they will need for this huge challenge.

  • @noneofurbusiness6046
    @noneofurbusiness6046 Месяц назад +2

    An updated video would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for all your help

  • @jamesroberts9825
    @jamesroberts9825 Месяц назад +1

    I was a young Marine {1961 - 1964] and I loved the southern California coastlin !

  • @Mary-jq4vm
    @Mary-jq4vm Месяц назад +2

    Enjoyed your video. I grew up inland but we used to drive thru and enjoy the beach

  • @Light4theWorldTV
    @Light4theWorldTV 2 месяца назад +4

    What?!! Thanks for sharing this very important event. I hadn't heard about it! The land is truly shifting people. Some may have to move from the coast.

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  2 месяца назад

      yes, there are homes that are getting pulled apart - very sad..

  • @flodrabmot
    @flodrabmot Месяц назад +2

    I lived on Ocean Terrace Dr in the 90s and early 2000s, watched Marineland get taken down and all the homes, golf course, and resort get built, the PBC was always my idea of where I wanted to retire to … life took a turn and I don’t live on the hill any more, but often think about coming back

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  Месяц назад

      its a beautiful area, let me know if you want more information on other homes in the area

  • @rebeccaboothe7117
    @rebeccaboothe7117 3 месяца назад +10

    Wow, I don't think I have ever seen rocks at the beach or ocean. Thank you for talking about this.

    • @Proverbs--tx6yr
      @Proverbs--tx6yr 2 месяца назад +2

      The English coast is almost all rock..

  • @enough1494
    @enough1494 2 месяца назад +6

    I grew up in the Caribbean. Our beach front, Atlantic side is 1/3 of what it was. Now when we have storms we get sand in the little beach house. But, she is still there after 70+ yrs.

  • @nacho-girl5120
    @nacho-girl5120 2 месяца назад +2

    I grew up there also. Long time ago when marine land was there. I had a friends who lived in the Portuguese beach club. The homes there look much newer and larger. I’m surprised it hasn’t started slipping. Fun video

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  2 месяца назад +1

      i miss Marineland - I thought the hotel could have kept some of the animal rescue stuff and even incorporated Baja Reef into a learning center recreation save the planet education program... ohh well...

  • @craigjoe8691
    @craigjoe8691 Месяц назад +3

    Prospectors have been finding several nuggets in all of this exposed sediment. Great panning.

  • @cherieweber9468
    @cherieweber9468 Месяц назад +1

    Fascinating! Thank you for posting

  • @considerthis410
    @considerthis410 Месяц назад +2

    I used to swim there. It's so beautiful 😢

  • @LuckyPierre789
    @LuckyPierre789 Месяц назад

    I grew up in Torrance and we used to go up there a lot in the 70's 80's. Fascinating and awesome vid. Thank you!

  • @AbandonedMines11
    @AbandonedMines11 Месяц назад +1

    Very cool video! Thanks for pointing out some of the changes that are rapidly happening there in the beach area. I find this kind of geological stuff to be very fascinating. I don’t think, however, that they will ever be able to stop the land movement. The whale skull near the end of the video was also a fascinating find!

  • @LCL-lz3zt
    @LCL-lz3zt Месяц назад

    Amazing - thank you for the insight view on the West Coast. You show us - what news stations never reveal.
    These people with damage homes have to be devastated.

  • @michaelheckman9576
    @michaelheckman9576 Месяц назад

    I’ve been watching this unfortunate chain of events in Portuguese Bend in the news for quite a while and nobody explained the cause and effect like you did. I understand it way better now. Well done !!

  • @TinShackVideos
    @TinShackVideos 2 месяца назад +2

    I grew up above Rat beach (Malaga Cove) . In the early `70's us kids would hike and tidepool that entire stretch, it
    looked nothing like it does in this video. We use to fish and crab off the "Jumping Pier" that was around that area,
    when a larger swell was running you could feel the pier rocking on it's pylons. Great memories!

  • @dylant8110
    @dylant8110 3 месяца назад +4

    Absolutely amazing! I have to check it out!

  • @robertgregory8936
    @robertgregory8936 Месяц назад

    Refreshing talk. I’ll check it out. Thanks. I also grew up in the area. RHCDS & M Costa ‘71.

  • @bernardlawson665
    @bernardlawson665 Месяц назад +3

    Good Stuff thumbs Up!!

    • @bernardlawson665
      @bernardlawson665 Месяц назад +1

      I just returned to CA after 3 full years on the Mekong River in Vietnam on a shallow draft wooden hull patrol boat in 1968 with only one objective to get on with my life with no plan so I rented a house on a cliff grand view of Catalina on Paseo Del Mar. Not a window to open as the house was sliding ever so slowly to the beach approximately 60 ft below. San Pedro to my left and Rancho Palos Verdes to my left. Google Earth shows the house no longer there. Went back east off to law school that was 55 years ago.

  • @marcphillips2208
    @marcphillips2208 Месяц назад

    Thank you for sharing. Very informative of the geological effects the slide is having on the actual coastline. It all comes down to wet Bentonite. Thanks again.

  • @lgrantnelson2863
    @lgrantnelson2863 2 месяца назад +5

    Reminds me of the Dalles, Oregon sliding into the river. It's very slow, but houses having problems.

  • @katiemae8335
    @katiemae8335 Месяц назад +2

    Thank you Jason, great vid!

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  Месяц назад

      Thanks Katie.. pretty incredible to witness all of the changes..

  • @cinemoriahFPV
    @cinemoriahFPV 2 месяца назад +3

    Its been changing for millions of years.

  • @optitom9033
    @optitom9033 23 дня назад

    I was part of the first graduating class of 1963 at Palos Verdes high school great area to growup and we'd drive to school passed Portuguese Bend and several times the road dropped over a foot and we'd have to turn around and travel through Rolling Hills to get to school.

  • @rebeccar628
    @rebeccar628 Месяц назад

    Very cool. I love stuff like this. Keep us updated.

  • @petgranny194
    @petgranny194 Месяц назад +1

    This was very interesting. Thank. you.

  • @erikahachiko104
    @erikahachiko104 Месяц назад

    Thanks for this video Jason! So fascinating and great to hear from a local 👍🏼🙏🏼

  • @ericlindenmuth7517
    @ericlindenmuth7517 Месяц назад

    Joe, cool video! I was down there a month ago and I was blown away also. I have lived here my entire 60 years and have never seen anything like it!! As far as the homes in PB, they have been moving since the 1950's. Most if not all the homes were put up onto railroad ties or lifted from there foundations. These houses have basically been worthless for a longtime. I remember years ago you could buy some, but it had to be all cash. No bank would ever give you a mortgage. Also, they were offered to local police and fireman. The now speed of the landslide is what is astonishing!!!

  • @briankasai1117
    @briankasai1117 2 месяца назад +1

    Been a longtime enjoyer of the area. Love the beaches. Dove the cave back in the day. Big changes from when i first visited in 1978. Lived in the area 1993. I really appreciate this video. Thanks for sharing.

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  2 месяца назад +2

      It was a steady movement until recently, and now it changes each week.. thanks for watching

    • @briankasai1117
      @briankasai1117 2 месяца назад

      @@PalosVerdesHouses in Hawaii now but I’ll be visiting in September and will take a look. Take care

  • @logica1167
    @logica1167 Месяц назад +2

    Late to the party!! So interesting. Thank you Jason, from North Carolina and New Jersey. Love the geo-journalism. You should look up Matthew LaCroix, a You Tuber on Ancient Civilizations (Sumerian) vis-a-vis the fossil findings. Do a dig together. And look at what is happening at New Madrid.

  • @giovanniceballos-y7e
    @giovanniceballos-y7e 2 месяца назад +4

    Mother Nature At It's Finest

  • @savoy6
    @savoy6 Месяц назад

    Beautiful over there. I love PV. I hope they can save that area

  • @GetOutsideYourself
    @GetOutsideYourself 3 месяца назад +2

    I grew up there. Walked that beach many times as a youth. You probably know what was hidden in that curve before the cave (which was a fun swim). Drove waaaaaay too fast as a teenager on the slide zone (but those jumps were so much fun). Thanks for the update.

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  2 месяца назад

      I was talking about the two jumps the other day,, now its just one big hill and the other is not too steep. curiosity though, i'm not sure I know whats hidden in the cave...

    • @briankasai1117
      @briankasai1117 2 месяца назад

      @@GetOutsideYourself nude beach. Used to be a part of that community.

  • @debbiescanlon6964
    @debbiescanlon6964 2 месяца назад +2

    This is really a cool video. I'm interested in all of the infrastructure that is showing now down at White Point and Royal Palms in San Pedro now. It's incredible.

  • @plzsavethebeez743
    @plzsavethebeez743 Месяц назад +1

    Thank you sir for this very informative video!

  • @winstonsmiths2449
    @winstonsmiths2449 2 месяца назад +1

    I am impressed with your "documentary". Very informative and entertaining, good job.

  • @tuomasholo
    @tuomasholo Месяц назад

    Very informative. Thanks

  • @DamarrissME
    @DamarrissME 29 дней назад

    Thank you. Very interesting!

  • @MaryBethQuraishi
    @MaryBethQuraishi 2 месяца назад +1

    You missed your calling Jason.
    You sound more like a Geological Engineer than Realtor.
    Glad the lifeguard escaped any injury.

    • @PalosVerdesHouses
      @PalosVerdesHouses  2 месяца назад +1

      Thanks... Im passionate about our local area, thanks for your comment)