{"id":29744,"date":"2016-01-26T12:27:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T16:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=29744"},"modified":"2016-01-26T12:29:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T16:29:29","slug":"el-nino-erosion-leaves-pacifica-apartments-on-the-brink-of-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=29744","title":{"rendered":"El Ni\u00f1o Erosion Leaves Pacifica Apartments On The Brink Of Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Ed Mazza<br \/>\nThe Huffington Post<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">California apartments with commanding views of the Pacific are now in danger of collapsing into the ocean.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-list-component text\">\n<p>Erosion blamed on El Ni\u00f1o rains is tearing away at the cliffs of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofpacifica.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;entry_text&quot;,&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;,&quot;mpid&quot;:0}}\">Pacifica<\/a>, just outside San Francisco. Drone footage shows how volatile the situation is, and how close to the literal edge some apartments are:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component embed-asset\">\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/gifs.com\/player\/73p6p1\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component text\">\n<p>At one point, the drone captured video of people standing on their terraces as part of the cliff under the apartment buildings next door crumbled:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component embed-asset\">\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/gifs.com\/player\/73p6X1\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component text\">\n<p>Some of the apartments were condemned years ago due to the erosion, but <a href=\"http:\/\/abc7news.com\/weather\/massive-waves-hit-already-battered-pacifica-coastline\/1171277\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;entry_text&quot;,&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;,&quot;mpid&quot;:1}}\">now the city has shuttered more units and at least two homes<\/a>,\u00a0according to ABC 7.<\/p>\n<p>The city also declared a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofpacifica.org\/civica\/filebank\/blobdload.asp?BlobID=8278\" target=\"_blank\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;entry_text&quot;,&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;,&quot;mpid&quot;:2}}\">state of emergency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Residents in the newly condemned apartments are finding notices on their doors allowing them to enter only long enough to collect their belongings:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/WayneFreedman\/status\/691753742564200448\/photo\/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n<p>About <a href=\"http:\/\/kron4.com\/2016\/01\/25\/el-nino-pacifica-officials-deem-ocean-view-apartments-uninhabitable-due-cliff-erosion\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;entry_text&quot;,&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;,&quot;mpid&quot;:5}}\">20 apartments have been condemned<\/a>\u00a0so far, according to KRON 4.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have no clue on where we&#8217;re going to go. I just moved in. I just got my place,&#8221; resident Monica Montoya, who must vacate her apartment by Monday night, told CBS News. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/el-nino-waves-leave-pacifica-california-residents-living-on-the-edge-literally\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;entry_text&quot;,&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;,&quot;mpid&quot;:6}}\">Finally got my housing, and now I have to move out<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The network reports that at least one home collapsed into the ocean during the 1998 El Ni\u00f1o year, and several others were demolished before they, too, collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Cross and Pacifica Resource Center are standing by to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofpacifica.org\/civica\/filebank\/blobdload.asp?BlobID=8278\" target=\"_blank\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;entry_text&quot;,&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;,&quot;mpid&quot;:7}}\">assist those forced out of their homes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/pacifica-cliff-collapse_us_56a6d5a8e4b01a3ed123bd2f\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/pacifica-cliff-collapse_us_56a6d5a8e4b01a3ed123bd2f<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}