Pacific Coast Hwy Could Collapse and This is Why

Apparently the cliff side right here this close to PCH is falling and uh yeah just that's why all this water is so brown. We're getting some cliff erosion here. I've never seen the water this brown. So they just closed PCH uh part one lane on PCH and my guess is because the cliff is eroding so bad over there that it might be at risk of like having part of PCH crumble into the ocean so i'm pretty curious to see what it looks like over there there's been tons of mud and lots of like just the water looks so murky and brown here and it's all because the cliffs being eroded and falling into the ocean it's probably one of the most vulnerable pieces of California coast right now and um yeah i think i bet you if there's nothing done about it that this part of PCH will probably fall into the ocean in the next who knows when that kind of i think PCH is bound to have some issues and they're already closing down one lane because of it yeah so film this lane closure right here so i think we just figured out why they closed this lane and it's because the cliff along El Moro has eroded so much that there's actually a crack that comes all the way up to about probably 10 feet away from the road so that part of the cliff hasn't fallen yet but probably going to fall yep it's right past this lifeguard station PCH is collapsing there's no cracks in the road yet though insane all that all the mud in the water is from much the cliff is falling into the ocean it's not from the runoff or anything it's just from straight erosion so yeah there's there's a ton of ton of dirt being lost and uh probably there's about to be a big landslide right over there and luckily it doesn't look like the cracks under PCH yet but it's getting closer and closer so yeah that's pretty pretty insane it's going to be interesting this winter yeah and tomorrow the day the waves are bigger and the tide's still really high so my guess is that that part of the cliff that already has a crack in it could collapse as early as tomorrow or that crack will at least widen quite a bit pretty pretty wild stuff that was a good one oh this one might be pretty nuts holy moly that was a pretty good set oh my this next one looks like it might double up pretty bad oh yeah this one's gonna be gnarly all the shrapnel from the parking lot concrete getting blown up into the parking lot this morning all the benches and everything's put back here whole police squadron it goes out of Aliso is walking up right now, too. It's a pretty big set. Whoa, that's a big set. Dang. Almost a full rainbow. This is a good wave. Oh boy still some swell. That's a real big wave. Oh my gosh. Just barely enough sand to make those things break before they hit the... Whoa, look at that. What are you hoping to see? We're just going to do a little beach survey down at Aliso. But it's peak high tide right now. and there's definitely some crazy wash-ups into the parking lot so just gonna try to transition Pelicans on it too oh insane wave spit watch this backwash oh my backwash oh it's a backwash on monday the 12th i believe it is pretty nuts how big the waves are already supposed to be bigger tomorrow back washes are crazy right over there lots of water going into the parking lot the new aliso creek creek it's like a just looks like it's gotten demolished what do you have a new piece of art for my living room well sounds about right all the rules and regulations for aliso that we always follow always what are some of the rules that we follow the world. This is where the slide happened two winters ago and you can tell the rock is getting pulled out into the ocean from this slide. Gradually water's just eroding this cliff base and and all the new dirt and rock that fell from up there. I'm gonna play some bets that There's more slides from this cliff face this winter This seems to be a pretty unstable part of the coastline even over there to those those rocks Probably fell a couple years ago My guess is there's gonna be more to come down The part an old part of the staircase right there came from right up there. How's this? Volleyball courts going pretty roots down here super roots wow it's like there's more sand up here but all the sand is gone right there never ever ever seen that much rock exposed didn't even know it existed property this palm tree is somehow hanging on for dear life that's insane the roots are like all bent up from the ocean two by fours who knows where that came from staircase staircase in some sort oh another down palm tree just noticing that buried by the sand you can see the bottom structure of these staircase right here that palm trees probably next to go wouldn't doubt it goes tomorrow Wow holy the back no takers West Street West Street actually looks a little bit better than I thought at least over in the cove over there there was a cone because waves were probably washing all way up here yeah this is definitely a lot lower than it used to be but kind of some sand moved back over here interesting this is interesting i think there is new rock that has fallen in this cave since i looked at it after marie pretty sure all that rock has fallen from the roof of this cave it looks pretty fresh we'll do a comparison to the last video to see if that's new or if maybe that was there already but i think this cave's getting bigger i think that's all new rock that has fallen you can kind of see like up there there's some fresh cracks that's going to be a pretty interesting comparison actually because i definitely videoed up into that cave right after marie and i'm pretty sure it didn't look like that so yeah we'll run that footage back and i don't really want to stand here let you be the judge of if you think new rock has fallen off the top of that cave it's about to get bigger if the if you think the cave's getting larger i'm pretty sure it is that might be a new sea cave here in a couple couple days this is peak low tide and there's still water washing up into the cove over there so definitely not safe to be in that cove at peak high tide maybe not even that safe to be down at this beach at peak high tide over I'm going to go check out the Blue Lagoon and see how those houses are holding up down there. That's probably the part of South Laguna that has been hit the hardest as far as property loss goes. Let's see how it's looking down there. This is insane. Oh, water. Low tide. This is what it looks like at low tide. There's water already coming up here. So much shrapnel. A couple of downed palm trees. to try to show you some clips of this on high tide tomorrow morning i think it's gonna look a lot different wow look at this this is a whole staircase really nice staircase i think there's there's a pool definitely a pool up there somewhere look at how undermined this thing is that's just hanging on by a thread probably oh boy that's a pretty good size one it's about as close as i want to get wow full puddle crazy got the waterproof reef these things are where it's legit this could be a very bad idea oh boy oh boy i literally went in the only corner where i was safe right there that's insane look at this this whole front of the house got hit for all the condos uh-oh insane look at how bent in this shutter is storm shutter is completely bent bench has got destroyed oh waves aren't even making it up here right now so oh yeah they are right as i say that yep let me see did you get hit in the back what happened to you i can't believe i found that little corner pocket you're lucky yeah i'm sure i definitely got wet watch out bro that's why those benches are gone bro oh on the roof torn up because they had windows broken in seems it.