Cliffside Homes Near Collapse in California Due to El Niño Erosion | NBC Nightly News 

The photo they showed from the 90s before the complex was built shows there wasn't nearly enough land to build it. Whoever zoned for the land for residential purposes needs to be evaluated.

How it looked in 1997 at 0:54 is not even the apartments and it still looks like that on google maps. The apartments are to the left out of the shot.

It appears to be a purely sandy loam that the homes sit on, so there it goes.

Pacifica is a good name for this place, because that's where it's all going...

Dont push me cause im close to the edge im tryin not to lose mah head ahhahaaha

Why the hell would anybody live there?

Even in 1997, it was still too close to the edge!

Hi Mr.Roth's classroom being forced to watch this for a school assignment :)

Symbolic of California's bad decision making all the time

Yea, but What A VIEW of the Ocean !!!!

Why would u put a house there da!!!

They need to use some of that emergency funding for helping to relocate some of those residents, because, "fighting coastal erosion," is essentially a losing battle, no matter how much money people throw at the problem. This is going on in Japan, Australia, in the North Sea in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and all along the Pacific west coast from Mexico up through California, Washington, Oregon, Canada, and ultimately Alaska. Nowhere has building a Sea Wall or laying out obstructions like boulders or concrete structures anything more effective than a temporary, "stop-gap," solution. Wherever coastal erosion is happening around the World it will continue to happen, whether we can figure out ways of slowing down the process or not, especially with the increasing effects of climate change making storms bigger and more violent every year, melting more permafrost in the subsoils of more Northern regions, and adding to the incessant rise in Sea levels around the World. It's simply something we aren't going to be able to engineer our way out of, especially when our own human environmental impact is what's exacerbating the problem so much to begin with. Nature's going to take her course, everybody needs to get used to that. And start thinking about decades into the future before developing anything on what is known to be unstable or susceptible ground.

Wow those places are going to fall. No doubt about it. I would not set foot in there. Also I would never buy a house on a cliff

Emergency money to buy used RVs would be smart

They should build these houses on railway tracks so they can be moved further back...

she said we knew this day was going to happen. Well if you knew this day was going to happen why didn't you do better to reinforce the foundation before you decided to build apartments on it. Cheap and greedy, that's why.

Why we pay Estate Taxes? Why?

Would be great to have an update on this. This was published almost 2 years ago now.

Judging by the picture of the area that they showed from 1997, it looks like those apartment homes that are now tittering close to the edge were built after 1997 on land dangerously close to the edge.

Someday that whole place will be underwater. Don't believe me? Listen to Tool Anema!

That storm never came u guys act like el niño was here THERE WAS NO EL NIÑO ITS ON RAIN COUPLE.OF TIME i live in pacifica too.

it happens all over the world , its called cliff erosion

any updates 5 years later?

I expect most of those malibu sea front houses to be gone pretty soon.

"Living on the Edge"

Emergency money to do what? (Spitting into the Wind!) Luv jim croce

Last year they stood 2 steps away from a disaster. This year marks a huge step forward.

so good

seriously.....previous generations left us some much work to do

Knowing this was going to happen in the 90s but waiting till the last minute to try and figure out what to do.

00:47. Proof "natural selection" exist.

Welcome to California, we hope you like my families photographs

wow

Thay wanted a home with a sea view.

good

Do not build your house on the sand, but build it on the ROCK. That is in The Holy Bible,KJV.

In 2016 no mention of CLIMATE change , Humm,

Hi mrs. Geibs class.

Casey brought me here

If they died it’s on the

rarararararar

Looked like some kind of support built but it gave way anyway why build so.close to a cliff with dirt in not an expert but I wouldn't do.that unless it was sold hard rock cliff. Probably years ago to them it looked like it would stand the loose dirt years ago.now it's years ago gone by and these cliffs are giving way.

Kick rocks in tack filled boots cali🤣

God give them what they are asking for!!

Push me to the edge all my friends are dead jk jk don’t *accidentally slips*