Erosion of Californian cliffs is causing homes to crumble away
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- Опубліковано 14 січ 2020
- Thousands of people residing on the cliff edges in southern California have been told leave their homes as the ground underneath is giving way, but some say they want to stay. James Vasina has the latest from Pacifica.
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I remember this wise man telling a story about not building your house on sand .
People build homes in all sorts of places. Look at Florida where in many cases people can't even have a basement to their house because if they dig too deep they'll hit water. Still people build homes. Or people bnuilding homes in what is called Tornado Alley. I'm thinking You must be nuts to live there but people do. Or, the people living in close proximity to vulcanoes as we just saw this week in the Phillippines. People see a volcano and think: yes, let's build here ... Humans never cease to amaze me.
The whole world is sand 😑
@@farzana6676 --"The Canadian Shield, also called the Laurentian Plateau, or Bouclier canadien, is a large area of exposed Precambrian igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks that forms the ancient geological core of the North American continent. Composed of igneous rock resulting from its long volcanic history, the area is covered by a thin layer of soil."
Only castles.
I like to sing to my 5 and 8 year olds they love this parable and song 🙂- 🎶 The foolish man built his house upon the sand,..... the wise man built his house upon a rock 🎶
That's what they get for hogging all of the waterfront areas! If you simply walk or drive by their houses they would scream "Private properties, get out!" Well, don't ask for my tax dollars to bail you mofos out in dealing with your own "private properties!"
Same on the beach in some other states even where the citizens own the beach. Old deeds still show some owners have beach rights to high tide or to low tide but at low low tide they still yell. Some beach goers are native indian and can go on those properties at the beach.
No one in those houses bitches about you driving by...just stop...
exactly
@@alexgibbs356 that's been my experience too. I lived near many beaches and nobody ever drove by and was yelled at. I have seen people get yelled at walking on a private beach however. If you live around the beach you can literally find what each individual property line goes to and then find the laws and match them up and then find where the tide lines are and you'll be fine. The problem is sometimes people leave trash or disturb the wildlife and that's why hey get mad or something wrong in the head. So of someone is yelling they might be right but they could be wrong too. Depends on many factors.
@@Slurpified cry baby
Costal erosion is forever , thats simple geography..
Go figure 😂😂
In every disaster there's always a group of idiots fighting to stay in harm's way. They'll expect first responders to put their lives at risk to rescue them too when the worst finally happens.
Yeah, they won't wear masks either. Can't fix stupid.
Is pelosi Home There?
Trump told them to stay because he said climate change is fake news
@@aolegario1 got nothing to do with climate change idiot. Neither do their forest fires. Texas has the same climate but different forestry policies. Meaning CA forestry policies are the reason for all their fires and ppl who start them
@@aolegario1 these people should had sense enough to know the dangers of building homes on a cliff. Common sense. No matter what Trump or Biden or whoever said.
That's what people get for being greedy and owning property that lines beaches that should be for everyone.
Uhh when was the last time you went to a..uh..CLIFFFFFFF to go to the beach?
@@johnperic6860 because Jehovah created this earth for EVERYONE and in just a little while he's going to bring an end to this greedy wicked system and everybody ruining his earth!!!!
@@johnperic6860
Up yours fascist.
The wise man built his house upon the rock - biblical advice!
Nature, " move bith, get out da way".
Rich people: We wana stay!
Oh, the irony.
I built my house in a rock but made the mistake of coming out from under it a little too far and then the rock slide happened. It crushed the front of my home. Including my bedroom, living room and family room. My kids and I were lucky not to be crushed too.
“happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks”
More biblical advice. Psalm 137:9
If you build your house on sand everyone else shouldn’t have to pay when that sand is washed away.
I've never even been to California, but I do remember my father always saying that the whole state of California would one day be in the ocean and this was as early as the 60's.
Actually, it's sliding north toward Alaska.
@@TheBandit7613 about to say the same thing
I lived a half a block from the beach 20 years ago. I was gardening and found a bunch of railroad stakes. Did some research and found out that a train used to run along the coast line.
why o why do they build on top of the erosion that they know is always there?! rich people problems .
Seems like that’s not the only thing crumbling in California!!
Or in US of A.
Texas has entered the chat.
When you build on a soft cliff....it is inevitable....
they need to make it clear these people who lives at the cliff are millionair. Those houses you see there are between 7 - 12 millions. So by all means, i feel no sympathy for them. They can easily buy another house anywhere else on the planet.
There's no logic in what you say unless you are a frustrated person.
@@mrx0088 that's because you dont have a brain
@@dainguyen784 I love you too.
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Those houses ain't worth shit,nobody would buy them in the current situation they are in,and the millionaires money would probably have been tied in the property and not in the bank account.
Normal stuff in California. One person's coastal view becomes another person's view. Nature!
Not just California. It's a global occurrence some coastal regions it's happening faster than others depending on the makeup of the coast. Skip back 30-50 years it was just storm surges that caused erosion but the sand would wash back and be deposited on the beaches after a few months or maybe a year. In the last 10 years it has been just a constant scouring of beaches and fore dunes and not just be storm surges it's now happening with every king tide event. Some local beachs in Australia have seen dry sand beaches that were 60-100 between fore dune and high water mark gone to the point that fore and back dunes disappear over the last 10 years and last year 2020, this as accelerated 80-120 meters gone. none of this lost sand has washed up on any neighboring beaches. The sands have washed out well beyond the surf zones where sand bars normally formed. near shore zones frequently now just have deep gutters that seem to facilitate the flushing away of eroded beach and dune sand.
@@richardkaz2336 I have lived in New Port Beach in California since1960.
The level of water has never changed in Back Bay 2 miles from the ocean entrance.
Believe what you like. There are 3 times more people on the earth today than my birth year. Global warming is caused by all the shits flushed down the toilet if you have one.
dont complain to the governor, because like everything else he doent give a s///. your on your own dear socialist.
They took on the risk when they built a home that close to the cliff.
Did you hear what the guy on the beach said????
It seems about a metre a year.
75 years ago (post WWII) the cliff was a block away.
That was reasonable for them... then. (and they're all dead now)
Having a nice view of the ocean comes with a price
Man is forever fighting a losing battle with Mother Nature. Eventually, SHE ALWAYS wins. Man can only delay the inevitable.
Mother Nature taking back what's actually hers.
@Commie clowns like I said, Mother Nature. Even if humans destroy the planet completely, and us with it, as was said in "Jurassic Park", "Life WILL find a way," just better and without humans.
nature reclaiming hers, good
Thank you for reporting this. For some strange reason we in America don't see this reported in our national media.
Are we supposed to cry for these rich people?
J. Crow I’m supposed to care about this? The people living there are dumb enough to stay
Ist not News, ist just UA-cam entertainment.
Erosion exists since the big bang.
You must not be paying attention, then. I'm an American, and I see this sort of thing frequently.
Shame it is happening in California and not in Washington D.C.
Both deserve it.
The entire city of Pacifica is built on sand deposits that were once sea bottom. The area, which is not far from where the San Andreas Fault runs under the sea across the Golden Gate, was uplifted by earthquake action and now the Pacific Ocean is taking it back. The people who live on the sand should know by now that they don't have a chance of stopping the ocean, but some of them are the epitome of hubris. The person who wrote the caption should have looked at a map. Pacifica is just south of San Francisco. It is no where near to Southern California.
The stupidity of the cement and rocks shows just how ignorant the people in Pacifica are.
"Learn to swim, see you down in, Arizona Bay!"
They won't allow me to build a fence! City: Sir, your fence will be out in the middle of the ocean by the end of the week!
WELL, don't make your home on an eroding coast line.
Mountains all over the planet are decaying as well. Climate change, plus melting icebergs means worldwide sea levels will keep rising. All this is causing changed weather patterns, bringing stronger storms to beat against what we thought was solid ground. Has humanity sped up this process? I believe so. Will humanity go extinct? Only if they keep being stupid. Even the caveman survived the ice age. The difference between now and then is that humankind depends on computers to make a living. We need to start refining our knowledge of working the land, growing crops, etc. In my opinion, it is the humble migrant worker who has the best chance of feeding themselves and surviving. Mr. Richie Rich will not get nourishment from money, fine art or shiny baubles. His pretty golden coins won’t be enough to buy labor when money means nothing. Who will trade their last leg of lamb for a piece of gold? The humble humans with dirt under their nails will continue. And the cycle will start all over again. I did not expect to see the cycle change occurring in my lifetime, nor the lifetimes of the children I love. Just like the Greeks, Romans, Chinese Dynasties, Egyptian Dynasties, etc. the great nations of today will crumble/are crumbling. We’ve been warned about pride and building our lives on sandy foundations. Yet, we have learned nothing.
@@KatieReadsKoziesAndMore man they delete my replies so fast. Earth is billions of years old, we are tens of thousands of years old. WHO CARES!
Giving MONEY TO EUROPE AND THE UN WONT STOP THE ICE FROM MELTING.
@@thejmoneyshow you only see a hand span in front of you.
@@miragaiamaia8966 you of course mean, the people who built their house on an eroding coast, of course. Offff courrrsseeee....
Oceanfront property in Arizona is a much more stable investment.
erosion keep going and Arizona will have sea views sooner than later. 😂
DON'T WORRY!...
When the San Andreas fault gives way, the whole place will be in the Pacific.
Your fence may be the only thing still floating.
Looking forward to that👍🇺🇸
That is what happens when you build your castle in the sand. Sand is always moving.
While my Dad didn't live on a coast line, he lived just a few miles from the ocean.
My Dad was actually giving me his place but I declined for good reason. Next Hurricane that came up was Katrina. The house was gone.
I like these places as a vacation spot. That's it. No way will I be a permanent resident.
Footage shown is more then 4 years old. Most of it didnt exist by the time france 24 aired it.
Nature is a hell of a neighbor
Well if they are stupid enough to stay let them stay and just tell them that they are on their own.
Cliffs are cliffs because of erosion. But local authorities give building permits for homes near the edge because they provide property tax revenue. This land is mainly sand, silt and volcanic ash. And erode much faster than if it were stone.
Awww! So sad, NOT! THEY DESERVE WHAT THEY PAID FOR !
water knows no boundaries
Whoever built that cliff should be sued.
maybe they dont' want you making a fence because it will end up in the ocean the day after you set it up????
This is nothing new. Been happening in California for quite a long time.
Good luck getting a wall in this crazy country now
What in the hell does that man think a fence is going to do? IF there was something that could be done, the state would do it. Time to quit the denial buddy and move.
Why in the world be so STUPID TO BUILD ON THE OCEAN
Coastal erosion is happening in lake Michigan also.
Same problem around the world at coastal locations.
It's not "costal erosion in Califórnia is taking houses to crumble away" . It's " when you take the cost to Nature building house ; Nature responds"
Building a sea wall only increases the erosion and loss of beach. Sometimes you just have to allow nature to win.
where is the coastal forest? Substitued by big houses and pools they're "improvements"👏👏👏👏
Build your house on weak and shifting sand.
That all of CA . It's happening all over the world.
For as long as I can remember even as a child,people who live on or by the beach and cliffs,your house will someday be taken by the the sea...... people don't listen!
Its called an open house concept...a great un obstructed view!
@1:16 yes a fence will stop mass wasting
And who is stupid enough to have not expected exactly this?
People who can afford homes here will afford them elsewhere. I feel empathy for those that can’t afford a home anywhere near this expense shown here.
I live in a river valley and folks who choose to live beside the river always whining about annual flood waters and expect the community to sandbag!
Dont build so close to the edge
Can't say I feel bad, these people hogged up all the seafront properties, because they wanted the view well now they got it.
Mother nature - you gots ta go or take a plunge
life is a beach
Let's build a house near the edge of a cliff...duh
Ever since I was a kid, I've been told or heard how California is going to fall into the sea!!!! Tectonic plates moving across the globe and for some reason this puzzles you?
Doesn't the Bible say: 'Thou shall not build on sand'? Those crooks, the land surveyors should have advised that it's all soft sand below. Now what? Are you suing the jokers for faking soil inspection certificates?
Dang, how do you even sell homes that are in that situation? Maybe someone might want to buy the land and do something else with it, idk
Lol.
Let's build our house on a eroding cliffside, what could go wrong!? 50 years later:
Whew! Lord! How can people even live so close to the waters edge. God Bless Them!
You canot build in a place where you canot build. End.
Upon this Rock....somebody fell asleep during Sunday school.
Description is wrong. Pacifica is in Northern California. It borders San Francisco.
Now that's a well built pool, good job to the builder.Not good for home owner.
Looks like FlyinCameras footage to me...
Yeah, stealing videos...
I still don't understand why anybody wants to live close to the cliffs. Five or ten miles from it is one thing but now they see the danger of it, just maybe they see what I'm talking about.
Sweet the beach is getting closer!
There's only one paradise and you have to be right with God all mighty to get there
Like morals, decency, honesty, integrity and all things good, it's all eroding away in that pathetic state.
California.... You never cease to make me laugh.
The solution is simple enough, but property owners want someone else to foot the bill... Spray gunnite on the cliff, and the erosion will be halted.
This erosion has nothing to do with climate change. This is just what water does.
First Name Last Name nothing will halt it now the waters will relentlessly keep rising. So factor in a continuing cost for this on both coasts.
@@JCrow-kz4nw I am not certain of that. Sea level is temperature related, and the water temperature in Pacifica is low.
Gunnite is the premium material for making swimming pools. Those areas of Pacifica where homeowners paid for this kind of intervention, are not experiencing erosion, and are probably good for 30-50 years.
The erosion problem is nothing new here. It happens every winter.
@@ivermec-tin666 "The erosion problem is nothing new here. "
So every year, you lose yards of coastline to the ocean? And you think in-ground pool material is going to magically stop the erosion?
@@richdelgado3405 The evidence is clear. Yes, gunnite works in this application.
We are not losing coastline in net. Sand moves in a storm. Gunnite constrains that movement.
It's not magic. It's engineering, and applied physics.
Location, Location, splash...
YESSS.
The wise man builds his house on a rock.
The "authorities," i.e. taxpayers, are supposed to fix this?
The odd question about land management and erosion is an age old never ending battle for the Americans. Completely different from how the Japanese and other Asian industrial countries have taken over shoring up the shorelines to prevent it. In the case of land erosion due to high surf and the earth sediment that account for the cliffs to slowly reach this point. A concrete barrier made up of of those triangulation mounded forms firmly placed between the existing land and shoreline , the barrier should have been erected then built up by a land fill which would reach the eroding cliffs then pilons driven deep into the land to support it from continuing erosion, then layered like a trench like stair steps up to the leveled ground above: terra-forming. But, like most there, government oversight plays heavily into conservation efforts. So, nothing ever happens. Nothing changes what exists already and the land and property like places in Russia or elsewhere simply disappear with the gradual loss of land to the oceans. Land conservation takes funding which, nobody is willing to pay any amount regardless of the eventual end results. Just property.
Plant trees on the cliffs the roots will hold the soil and stop erosion!
More 💲than brains
The State needs to give them a date to move out. If they stay, no money, no house - it's on them. Given the ice shelf breaking off in Antarctica, it won't be long.
Doesn't take a rocket scientist to know you can't live there.
We all know that this caused by rising temperatures impacting on rising water levels in the sea. We’ll witness more phenomena everywhere every year.
Oh well. The sea don't want want you there
It is their property even when it gets covered by water? They could anchor a boat where the house stood and live there instead.
I can't feel sorry for any person that this happened to. Common sense tells you that every time storms and waves hits a hillside and mountain it erodes. If the idiots want to waste their funds that's them. That is not something the any government body should spend money on knowing this from get go. Earth science 101. Elementary school teaches you this.
Don't build your house on the sandy land. Don't build it too near the shore. Well it might look kinda nice but you'll have to build it twice oh you'll have to build your house once more. (ADVICE FROM SUNDAY SCHOOL)
They given you a dam house and you rejected.
This is what happens when civil engineers ignore the advise of geologists.
Am I supposed to feel bad that some young idiot built their house upon a cliff and now they have to watch their home go over said cliff? I Can’t even afford a house. If I could, I would have done better research.
Come on. These houses shouldn't have been built on a cliffside .. building your house on sand on a cliff mind you is like the 3 pigs story. What they should have done is put single trailer's on those cliffs too move around.
I would honestly expect the city there to spend resources to demolish those builds before they end up in the ocean. You know since that's a stance california would push.
Respect your own life and respect nature. That way each of us move in our own way and life without going against each other.
It's not the taxpayer's job to pay for your wall what the heck
Hmmm, uhhh, lets build on dirt or sand near the ocean or gulf. Everyone knows that erosion is just as harsh as rising water table. Build a seawall. It works for Galveston island
Let Nature express itself.
It is common sense, not to live so close to water.
Global Warming is speeding it up that's the real problem.
What a mess
Make a solid wall against erosion or elde all the plains will turn into ocean
Nature rules!
Western countries have erosion, a natural phenomenon, and tuff luck to those who built in that zone. 3rd world countries suffer from "rising sea level" and want financial aid from the western countries, for those who built in that zone.