That woman that said she wasn't leaving...the policeman should just have asked for her next of kin, so they can be notified, then called her stupid and left her there. Let's hope she learned something before it's too late, if not, her family can always put her in for the Darwin awards.
A year after this was uploaded, they bulldozed these apartments and the apartments on the other side of the street had ocean views and the rent immediately went up $2500 per month.
They finally tore down the whole apartment building and cleared the site. They really need to remove 3 or 4 blocks of the residential area, but the rest of the residents will stubbornly stay until their homes fall into the ocean. The entire area is former sea bottom sand deposits and is made even more unstable by the San Andreas Fault, which goes into the ocean around there and crosses the Golden Gate, offshore, before coming back on land at Drakes Bay. The people who bought homes there and the city that allowed the homes to be built are all idiots for insisting on living there. But that is what you can expect from a state like California.
With the Calif. Coastal Commission how could this have even been a "site" to begin with??? You not supposed to build any where near since 1970, unless there was a grandfathered old building and the developer got around it that way. These units to begin with a fairly new but not build well. Down she goes.
@@Dwightstjohn-fo8ki These residences have been there since before the Coastal Commission was established. The area is former sea bottom that was uplifted by seismic activity and the Pacific Ocean is taking it back.
Regardless of the faults, my heart goes out to the residents along the coast. They lived, slept, and listened to those waves for years. A bad situation for all.
It wouldn't bother me if the whole state washed into the ocean. I was called out with National Guard in the 70s by then Gov. Jerry Brown to fill sandbags because his girlfriends, Linda Ronstadt's house in Malibu was in danger of collapse because of beach erosion. After her house was secured we were then put under command of the fire dept. as to what other houses to save (the rich & famous first of course).
I love how this always makes national news when it happens. This happens about every 10 years or so in Pacifica when a round of bad storms hit. It is the nature of those bluffs unfortunately.
All ocean front properties cliff front properties are in jeopardy with climate change I’d be surprised if any are left standing at the end of this century . Extreme weather is changing the landscape fast and oceans are rising.
Those structures are NOT sitting on "sandstone", they are sitting on 100% sand! There are no rocks or stones holding those places up. The sand you see on the beach below, is the exact same sand that makes up those highlands near the edge.
What you say suggests that there must have been experts who could have told them. The question is, would anyone have listened? Ultimately it seems like the companies who built these structures are responsible.
@@danawinsor1380 True, but those companies are long gone. Also, the cities, counties and governmental bodies that permitted such construction, should be responsible as well. However, back then, such concerns were often glossed over. Even today, there are probably hundreds of structures, up the coast into San Francisco that are still in danger of collapsing eventually into the Pacific Ocean. But.....oh, those 5 million dollar views are great, as long as they last!
How do I search for an actual view of the houses on the cliff in Google Earth? I want to see if she has moved out of her house or she still lives there.
If you don't want to leave fine, but thats nothing to play with. Take your valuables, move your furniture to storage or new place, and contact your renters insurance.
@@diddyfan64 no, i don't know where OP got his info. The city just deemed everything unsafe and tore it all down. So they probably had to drag her out.
Those apartments were built in the 50s, when there were probably dozens more like that one, across the street, on the side that is now a cliff. Erosion sucks, but the better phrase would be "don't build on sand"! Notice when you're in the water, standing on the sand, how the dirt around your feet seems to suck your feet into it? That's the sand being sucked out with the waves. Logic dictates if sand can do this, while you're standing on it, then probably best NOT TO BUILD ON IT! Mother Nature will eventually take back what's hers, and the more you fight her, the harder she fights back!
"'Wow!' said the broken Californian down On the beach that used to be by the beach Town hasn't moved but's getting closer, losing ground Making better views and close relaxing sounds Ground sure don't like the way it's treated so now It's moving back to the sea" -Modest Mouse, 1996
Some of these places were once 100's of feet away from the edge. You can clearly see that it is just dirt and sandstone which erodes easily. Someday the edge may be 1000's of feet further inland.
Just ask the regulation-free city of Houston which practically outlawed zone regulations and people, read that as developers can build what they want wherever they want and just look what 90" inches of rain which Hurricane Harvey did tobthe city last year
I don't blame the people for not wanting to leave. I mean... where will they go??? Too many homeless in CA as it is. No one will help them. I feel her pain. But is it worth risking dying; should the house erode off into the ocean? NO.
"I'm not leaving and the neighbors aren't leaving" Yeah, well, hate to inform you there hunny, but your residence is about to be condemned, I assure you, you are leaving. It may not be today, but you are leaving.
Bro did we forget about Pangea or how almost all the land was an ocean... the earth changes and people are like yea let’s build houses on the edge off this cliff because it’ll stay like that forever.
I certainly like to have an ocean view. I wouldn't buy a home that close. I live on the east coast, about 70 miles from the ocean. When I go to the shore, buildings are about a quarter mile from the water. And there are no high cliffs. I don't care if a home is given to me free and no taxes! Even on the east coast, storm damages happen.
Set posts into the ocean to act as a barrier to slow down the waves. Waves will eventually deteriorate the cliff. In Dubai they build islands out of nothing and you can’t put in simple wave barriers.
It's just like the people who don't want to leave during the hurricanes in Louisiana, but then the next day wanna cry and say their not getting the help the need. Or nobody helped them get out, or the families saying my parents or loved one died cause you didn't help them. No it's because you were acting selfish.
0:15 Just watched another video of this footage, would it surprise you to find out that there are still people in those apartments? Doesn't surprise me a bit.
I'm guessing that by now, every building on the cliff side of the road has been demolished and the ground underneath eroded away - possibly the road as well.
HAHAHA, Homes in a forest that burns ever year, homes on collapsing cliffs, California stop smoking crack XD I don't feel bad about your short-sighted decisions.
they didnt see climate change and rising ocean levels, and still no one wants to admit it. Look at the polar icecaps melting, glaciers retreating by kilometers per year where 100 years ago they retreated by meters. Ocean rises, it has more power to crash inland. Glad i live on a mountain, ill have ocean front soon.