WATCH: Pacifica Coastal Erosion Caught on Drone Video

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  • čas přidán 22. 01. 2016
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    Filmed January 23, 2016 around 10:45am PST.
    Esplanade Ave. in Pacifica, California

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  • @hugh_jasso
    @hugh_jasso Před 3 lety +509

    Real estate agent 10 yrs ago: "its a great property a couple of blocks from the beach"
    Real estate agent today: "its a beachfront property"

    • @eyesopen5469
      @eyesopen5469 Před 3 lety +2

      More like the last 10,000 years or more.

    • @laken1804
      @laken1804 Před 3 lety +5

      On the beach!

    • @proudchristian77
      @proudchristian77 Před 3 lety +2

      3 or 4 more years it will be gone property sad thing !

    • @cosmosdark5972
      @cosmosdark5972 Před 3 lety +8

      next year did you say you wanted a house boat?

    • @bravomasterchief
      @bravomasterchief Před 3 lety +17

      We lived in one of those apartments in 1972 and it was a good 100 yards to the edge of the cliff. There was an indoor swimming pool and where it once was no longer exists. I am amazed they haven’t condemned those buildings!

  • @DanceswithDustBunnies
    @DanceswithDustBunnies Před 3 lety +112

    The land is literally falling out from under the building next door and yet these eejits are calmly standing around...I'd have been long gone by then.

    • @aaroni5074
      @aaroni5074 Před 3 lety +6

      That is because you are Irish and have a bit of cop on. Americans, not so much.

    • @luisagurto5383
      @luisagurto5383 Před 3 lety +3

      They probably can’t. Looks like public housing to me.

    • @JTHBS
      @JTHBS Před 3 lety +8

      In other countries they would have evacuated and removed those buildings long time ago. Here they apparently wait for the next storm to do the job.

    • @yvonnewitherspoon846
      @yvonnewitherspoon846 Před 3 lety +2

      WoW mother nature and father time....so sad

    • @vodkarage8227
      @vodkarage8227 Před 2 lety +4

      @@yvonnewitherspoon846 I don't think it is sad at all. The earth is so beautiful because of erosion. Things like the grand canyon would not exist without erosion. Think of all the beautiful lakes that were carved into the earth by the glaciers.

  • @sennadehond3821
    @sennadehond3821 Před 3 lety +289

    TheRichest: “Seaside homes that only cost 1$!”

  • @985bully
    @985bully Před 3 lety +161

    Don’t worry the next row of houses will have a great view in a couple weeks!

    • @misguidedangel6550
      @misguidedangel6550 Před 3 lety +5

      About 10 years they will yup

    • @rogerhegemier8491
      @rogerhegemier8491 Před rokem +6

      Oh Mother Nature is never done, changing the Landscape !!!!

    • @MrMscotth
      @MrMscotth Před rokem +1

      looks like the buildings are gone now. I put a man on the ground in google and no buildings on the seaward side of Esplanade.

    • @neighborhoodcatlady6094
      @neighborhoodcatlady6094 Před rokem +2

      I just google mapped. Yes, looks like gone. See remnants of buildings that used to be there.

    • @stevepunter3704
      @stevepunter3704 Před rokem

      Oh man, your comment is as brutal as the erosion 😬.

  • @theodoreroberge574
    @theodoreroberge574 Před 8 lety +768

    Whoa! I lived in these apartments on Esplanade Blvd back in 1962-63. I don't remember them being so close to the ocean! Dang! Mother Nature takes back her land.

    • @moocyfarus8549
      @moocyfarus8549 Před 6 lety +80

      Theodore Roberge this needs to be flagged by the poster or somehow made a top comment so that everyone with smart-ass comments realizes the extent of erosion

    • @anthonyagnelneri4076
      @anthonyagnelneri4076 Před 6 lety +6

      Theodore Roberge there so OLD they should go into ocean!!

    • @TheJhtlag
      @TheJhtlag Před 6 lety +40

      That was my guess, 50s - 60s construction, so to all the posters that complain about people living so close to the edge yeah, a) erosion but also b) folks have been enjoying the view for 60 years, it's been worth the financial risk even if and when they fall into the sea. The properties look like they were nearing the end of their natural lives anyway. Maybe even a little thrill at enjoying the day knowing one day it will be gone.

    • @nibiruthecat7652
      @nibiruthecat7652 Před 6 lety +32

      I wish we had drones back then or atleast an arial photograph from the 60's wjen you were there. It would be fascinating to see how much erosion has taken place. Were there gardens or a large walkway before? How far would you say it went out before. 50metres? 100? 😁

    • @roddaman7545
      @roddaman7545 Před 6 lety +47

      There are aerial photos of the area, going back to the 1940's - you have to pay for them but they're out there. Someone flew a plane along there in the mid '30's doing surveys for the Army and the USGS. The coast was about 200 feet away when the Esplanade Apartments were constructed, if I remember correctly. There was a large, open field to the northwest with nature trails and stairs down to the beach. The coast has advanced around 3 feet per year since then.

  • @sararestivo4247
    @sararestivo4247 Před 4 lety +338

    That's what I call living on the Edge!!!

  • @misguidedangel6550
    @misguidedangel6550 Před 3 lety +42

    Ya um I couldn't sleep there not knowing if ill wake up falling off a cliff

  • @ruraledition
    @ruraledition Před rokem +2

    What amazes me is that most of these apartments are still occupied. Gawd how could you sleep at night? This part of the landscape sits on the Ring of Fire, that threatens San Francisco with earthquakes. So as the plateau is being pushed up by plate tectonics that moves clockwise and submerges at the same time, the coastline stability is undermined and flakes apart. The ocean only helps it along. It would be happening anyway. I guess on a positive note, it means that there is not friction buildup due to resistance of movements with plate tectonic activity and therefore a huge earthquake of the magnitude experienced in San Francisco over one hundred years ago, is less likely to happen. Wow. Credit to the author for having captured it on camera. Phenomenal.

    • @user-iu9do6rv6o
      @user-iu9do6rv6o Před rokem

      Очень толковый комментарий!

  • @lilyk7326
    @lilyk7326 Před 8 lety +76

    At 1:28 I can see the apartment I lived in for 4 years. It's much closer to the edge of the cliff than it used to be. It was such a spectacular place to live, but we all knew that all those buildings were going to fall into the ocean one day.

    • @seb9940
      @seb9940 Před 8 lety +3

      not yet^^

    • @punchinpuppies
      @punchinpuppies Před 6 lety +1

      Unless they demolish them and build them a little further away

  • @yeeturmcbeetur8197
    @yeeturmcbeetur8197 Před 5 lety +127

    “Well honey, we won’t be needing the lawn mower anymore, go ahead and pawn it!”

    • @kelpboyss9337
      @kelpboyss9337 Před 3 lety

      czcams.com/video/L1B6x12_G6g/video.html .,

    • @clingfray3
      @clingfray3 Před 3 lety

      now listen you little demon-

  • @lohphat
    @lohphat Před 3 lety +46

    "Hey! Let's build on a cliff of semi-compacted alluvial soil instead of bedrock and see what happens!"

    • @brittanykasha4825
      @brittanykasha4825 Před 3 lety +1

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @lpjunction
      @lpjunction Před 3 lety +2

      A few drops super glue here and there will help.

    • @dontsettlefor500mill
      @dontsettlefor500mill Před 3 lety

      a-who-vial?

    • @nonnaurbisness3013
      @nonnaurbisness3013 Před 3 lety

      Apperently nothing for like 60 years.

    • @bravomasterchief
      @bravomasterchief Před 2 lety +3

      The same thing has been going on down south in Malibu, Big Sur, etc. ever since stupid people built houses on compacted sand for a view of the ocean, then wanted the taxpayer to pay for their house sliding into the ocean! Nothing new to see here, folks!

  • @rampking1
    @rampking1 Před 3 lety +173

    I lived on Esplanade twice, back in the 80's and 90's. For a total of around 15 yrs. Always a large expanse of sand protecting the cliffs down by the beach . In fact the issue for the apartments at the edge of the cliff here was the erosion from the street side towards the ocean during the winter causing erosion, not the ocean waves hitting the sandstone cliffs, all the rain water funneled thru PVC pipes .
    Also there were large expanses of ice plant growing from these apartment towards the edges of the cliff, takes a long time for that much surface coverage. Plus all these apartments had enough space for a patio and BBQ set up.
    However it all went to hell after San Francisco built the huge sewage outfall pipe off Ocean Beach next the the San Francisco zoo.
    After the huge pipe was put in, the beach sand slowly depleted , normal winter beach erosion but the usual influx/replenishment of sand in the summer stopped completely.
    Slowly each year the beach area has gotten smaller and smaller until the winter waves started hitting the base of the cliffs directly.
    90% of the beach sand is now gone, actually dangerous to walk on now during high tides.
    Where it shows in the video of waves hitting the boulder pile below the cliff I was easily able to walk on year around, sometimes you could could walk to the Pacifica pier, not anymore.

    • @thechloromancer3310
      @thechloromancer3310 Před 2 lety +16

      You'd think the government would be able to build some kind of barrier wall to prevent this erosion. This is third-world levels of incompetence.

    • @rampking1
      @rampking1 Před 2 lety +8

      @@thechloromancer3310 They did build a barrier of huge rock boulders but only after the massive cliff erosion had started.
      An extremely costly as well as dangerous project working under a crumbling cliff and a pounding surf zone close by.
      Little or no access for heavy construction equipment to be brought in to the base of the cliff added to the complications and expense. No idea how long the environmental impact report took...

    • @thechloromancer3310
      @thechloromancer3310 Před 2 lety

      @Schlomo Baconberg Compelling argument. With such skills, you are now ready to graduate to grade 2.

    • @thechloromancer3310
      @thechloromancer3310 Před 2 lety

      @Schlomo Baconberg strange directive to give to someone who had not commented for over a week. Seek help.

    • @thechloromancer3310
      @thechloromancer3310 Před 2 lety

      @Schlomo Baconberg ... and I don't live by yours.

  • @archsimpson4511
    @archsimpson4511 Před 8 lety +413

    My question is, why haven't the authorities not condemned these buildings? I saw people walking in and out of them on to the balconies.

    • @SotaliaTucuxi
      @SotaliaTucuxi Před 8 lety +38

      +Arch Simpson They have. The residents aren't willing to move. abc7news.com/weather/tenants-fight-order-to-move-out-of-pacifica-apartments/1174295/

    • @TalkingChimp88
      @TalkingChimp88 Před 8 lety +29

      +Arch Simpson The ones in the middle (where the HUGE chunk falls off) were condemned years ago. They are uninhabited. The one on the far left with people.. they were condemned on 1/25. Many have moved or are moving out. Some are not.

    • @gkadnams
      @gkadnams Před 6 lety +39

      Rent is probably pretty cheap for those ocean views.

    • @manuelgonzalez-wy2bn
      @manuelgonzalez-wy2bn Před 6 lety +28

      Arch Simpson 'cos they want to xperience the thrill of a house rollercoaster 😂

    • @get-the-lead-out.4593
      @get-the-lead-out.4593 Před 5 lety +32

      It's been condemned but some people don't value their own life...they rather take the chances the ocean will somehow build the cliff back up

  • @brittanym4539
    @brittanym4539 Před 6 lety +71

    While watching this, I just can’t help but to imagine how absolutely stunning the land would be if there weren’t any buildings on it.

    • @euclois
      @euclois Před 2 lety +9

      There is enough cliffs to appreciate out there with no buildings. My problem with constructions of this kind, in privileged nature location, is when they build ugly and shitty architecture that does not in any way complement the nature. You look at certain locations like Santorini, Azenhas do Mar, Cinque Terre and Ronda and you will see the beauty when man builds over nature and makes use of it.

    • @xissburg
      @xissburg Před rokem +9

      @@euclois yes those apartments look really ghetto

  • @darioinfini
    @darioinfini Před 4 lety +29

    This was happening 30 years ago when I lived there and I'm sure for millennia before that. Don't build your house on a cliff side folks. Unless the beauty calls to you and you ACCEPT there's a good chance you'll lose your house some day.

    • @lexusrcflover9175
      @lexusrcflover9175 Před 3 lety +1

      More like lose your life

    • @petemulhearn7787
      @petemulhearn7787 Před rokem +2

      Coastal erosion is nothing new, its been going on for generations yet these home owners are shocked its happening to them. If you want a sea view house buy one built on solid rock cliffs not clay and sand.

  • @Dilligff
    @Dilligff Před 3 lety +125

    How the hell were these people not evacuated when the ground literally started sliding out from under them?

    • @vodkarage8227
      @vodkarage8227 Před 2 lety +13

      Why should they be evacuated? They are adults that can see what is happening. It's up to them to move.

    • @bertieballs
      @bertieballs Před 2 lety +33

      @@vodkarage8227 Unfortunately the Government has a duty to protect stupid people from themselves.

    • @bravomasterchief
      @bravomasterchief Před 2 lety +26

      The “ground literally started sliding out from them” for more than 50 years. I lived there in the 70’s. They could’ve moved when the edge was 10 yards away with plenty of time to do it. This video makes you think this happened in months or days. It took decades and they knew full well it was coming.

    • @dolliemaesone
      @dolliemaesone Před 2 lety +10

      No one living there

    • @swayback7375
      @swayback7375 Před 2 lety +6

      @@bravomasterchief I mean you could see the concrete, that looked like 50 year old concrete, maybe older, and then the boulder break water as a second attempt. The video doesn’t explain anything, it just shows what’s happening now, or rather 5 years ago.

  • @cabusman1
    @cabusman1 Před 5 lety +86

    Esplanade Avenue in Pacifica. Those apartments 'on the edge' were vacated some time earlier and the ones still occupied shortly after this drone footage. All have since been torn down - nobody lost their lives.

    • @justmissjamey
      @justmissjamey Před 4 lety +7

      So all of them are torn down now?! I'm shocked people were living there with that going on

    • @lukez9721
      @lukez9721 Před 4 lety +4

      Were they torn down by the ocean or by a normal way?

    • @lightowl4345
      @lightowl4345 Před 4 lety +6

      I just looked at google earth, it looks like the ocean is continuing to eat away at those cliffs.

    • @ghostlyme
      @ghostlyme Před 3 lety +2

      @@lukez9721 Torn down normal way, city paid for it.

    • @eyesopen5469
      @eyesopen5469 Před 3 lety +1

      @@lightowl4345 Always has and always will.

  • @judithmarielivingston2294
    @judithmarielivingston2294 Před 7 lety +51

    Calm and soothing just to listen to. It never ceases to amaze me how many times homes/businesses are demolished simply from the inevitable. Most people never learn. Plain to see that, just look at the people who are walking around right above the ground that is crumbling.

  • @jlseagull2.060
    @jlseagull2.060 Před 3 lety +5

    Monterey California too. Years ago I was house hunting and went to a townhouse complex. The RE agent was inside to greet whoever showed up. I was thinking if I had money to throw away, I would not mind buying it, It was a matter of the whole complex will be submerged in the water. The front row of houses already were sitting concrete reinforcers! It was scary to me. But I am sure some do not mind at all; honey, the view is spectacular!!
    Portions of Highway 1 will be submerged in water too, given some years. It already happened. Highway 1 was not so close to the ocean decades ago.

  • @kevinperry4551
    @kevinperry4551 Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you. I lived nearby in Portola Valley and had friends in Pacifica. Their apartment was far from the ocean in 1985.

  • @danunderwood6240
    @danunderwood6240 Před 8 lety +535

    This is what happens when people think they can ignore mother nature and do whatever they want. Like building on a delta and then wondering why it floods so bad. A little common sense would go a long way

    • @zereprd3911
      @zereprd3911 Před 8 lety +28

      +Dan Underwood - Yes, I was completely surprised. I was thinking to myself that surely no-one would be living in those dwellings given the state of the ground beneath them. And then when the camera zoomed in toward the patio areas, and SHOWING people in there, I thought I was imagining seeing it.

    • @MrAresxy07
      @MrAresxy07 Před 8 lety +2

      i hope as a good human being u should have show this footage to the people that lives in there otherwise u are just another lurkers that doesn't care about people

    • @SotaliaTucuxi
      @SotaliaTucuxi Před 8 lety +8

      +joan Alonso The most recent news article states that the people living there know the risks, they know the building has been condemned and they are being ordered to move out, but they are STILL not willing to move out.

    • @DoctorMadeME
      @DoctorMadeME Před 8 lety +5

      +Dan Underwood I know right. It's kind of obvious that it would get destroyed sooner or later.

    • @feikeh6629
      @feikeh6629 Před 8 lety +3

      it's America... i've spoken

  • @MJLeger-yj1ww
    @MJLeger-yj1ww Před 5 lety +15

    I lived in an apartment down from those, the last one before a stretch of beach above the pier. I watched the pier being built and sadly, saw a helicopter go into the drink when they were building the pier. I used to climb down the cliff in Pacifica to run on the beach every morning. But that was before they evacuated a lot of those dwellings on the cliffs, but I heard about it. I moved maybe 5 hears later, down to my home in Montara just below Devil's Slide in about 1975 or so, and knew about the erosion; one house on the cliff lost about 30 feet of frontage, but I moved away from the area before it was really bad for those residents on the cliff above Pacifica. I wonder of those buildings have fallen down by now! I moved two states away 20 years ago, to the mountains and I miss the ocean but love the snow!

  • @charleslloyd4253
    @charleslloyd4253 Před 3 lety +21

    As these residents property taxes continue to rise.

    • @lohphat
      @lohphat Před 3 lety

      GOOD. Those taxes pay for the distraction the city has to undertake to shore up these idiotic choices in real estate development.

    • @kevanhollidge164
      @kevanhollidge164 Před 3 lety +3

      Headlines in the California Daily; Property taxes rise as property continues to falls.

  • @hemaraj3783
    @hemaraj3783 Před 3 lety +4

    This is what mother nature balancing herself and teaching us the life lessons.

  • @speedspeed121
    @speedspeed121 Před 7 lety +637

    The people across the street will soon have water front property

    • @brandoncaldwell95
      @brandoncaldwell95 Před 6 lety +3

      Advocatus Diaboli muh sooner than that. Once those apartments are gone, id double.my money on the ocean view

    • @cayannap6752
      @cayannap6752 Před 6 lety +2

      It'll be great while it lasts...

    • @yintercept4612
      @yintercept4612 Před 6 lety +12

      The big pile of rocks seems to be helping. The cement retaining wall by the orange houses is foolhardy as it will collapse once the sand beneath it fails. I think the second row of houses will be saved because all the cement foundations, refrigerators and washing machines from the first line of failed apartments will add to the big pile of rocks.

    • @faithrada
      @faithrada Před 6 lety +3

      Jerry Smitherson I'd be selling right about Yesterday LOL

    • @murdok1119
      @murdok1119 Před 5 lety

      Yea, but Just for a couple of years

  • @MrRockydee07
    @MrRockydee07 Před 6 lety +153

    Selling nice home in Pacifica California only seconds to Beach , don't let this one slid away hurry ! 🏄

  • @elkarim9929
    @elkarim9929 Před 2 lety +4

    I remember couple of years back looking for apartments there in background. Expensive and possibility of waking up in pacific

  • @user-kn6sz8ji1j
    @user-kn6sz8ji1j Před rokem +1

    In Delaware we don't normally see how bad the erosion along the Pacific is Duncan, thank you for the drone footage.

  • @DanielleWalcott
    @DanielleWalcott Před 7 lety +20

    Thanks for sharing this. My Fifth Grade students and I are currently studying erosion right now. I will definitely share this with them as well as the other Fifth Grade teachers!

    • @be6388
      @be6388 Před 2 lety +1

      please teach Your students about horrible lots of rubbish going into the sea!
      poor fishes!

  • @jspec1398
    @jspec1398 Před 7 lety +277

    now that is wat i call living life on the edge.... 👍👍

  • @artiejj
    @artiejj Před 3 lety +3

    The view just keeps getting better and better doesnt it.

  • @alanrobinson4318
    @alanrobinson4318 Před 2 lety +9

    We've got a housing tract out here in Henderson, NV.. It's being built on the unlined settling ponds of a long gone chemical plant. You're talking of around 40 years of who knows what dumped out there soaking into the ground. 3 companies went bust trying to get around that. The last spent 6+ months scraping off a layer of that dirt, treating it, and using it to grade pads for housing. The tract is called "Cadence". I used to ask workers and new homeowners if they knew what their houses were being built on, not many, if any, knew. I joked with them that I wanted a picture of the first 3 eyed Koi in their fish pond. It's just a guess, but, I'm thinking that, that's going to be a sequel to "Aaron Brockovich".

    • @rogerhegemier8491
      @rogerhegemier8491 Před rokem +2

      Yea this puts me in mind of the old Movie called Poltergeist, By the way i think Aaron might might be retired by Now !!! But if it were me, i would look for property in another Area !!! Good Luck !!!

    • @Pissedoffdetective
      @Pissedoffdetective Před rokem +2

      Might want to take a Google at 'Love Canal' This sounds just like it.

  • @ChuckReynolds
    @ChuckReynolds Před 8 lety +72

    Great footage man. Not that I want that building to go down... it eventually will... I hope there's footage of that when it happens... Cheers

    • @JustPassingBy2010
      @JustPassingBy2010 Před 8 lety

      +Chuck Reynolds Liveleak for that.

    • @colonelchaunceybuttersnap2
      @colonelchaunceybuttersnap2 Před 8 lety +2

      +Chuck Reynolds When those buildings fall.They will pull all the electric cables and water pipes in LA county down into the ocean with them.A lot of people are going to be left without electricity and water as a result.Not much of a result, if you ask me.

    • @ChuckReynolds
      @ChuckReynolds Před 8 lety +12

      Moor Letoh ....um... "in LA county"? You realize this footage is from up near San Francisco right?
      But yeah i'm sure there are some cables and stuff under those buildings... not a good situation but has nothing to do with LA county bud.

    • @OMGWTFLOLSMH
      @OMGWTFLOLSMH Před 8 lety +1

      +Moor Letoh - LMAO.

    • @hunter46383
      @hunter46383 Před 8 lety +1

      +Moor Letoh this is in San Mateo County, just south of San Francisco.

  • @LovinLearnin
    @LovinLearnin Před 8 lety +4

    Excellent perspectives I could see the whole situation from watching the individual people on their back porches to seeing down the entire coast. This was great!

  • @sarahmcpeters3063
    @sarahmcpeters3063 Před 3 lety +1

    Would starting berry bushes along the top, eventually help to anchor the rest in place?

  • @lilinoedavis6272
    @lilinoedavis6272 Před 3 lety +6

    The tenants of the buildings in back are chanting, "Fall Fall fall!". Ocean front coming up🙃

  • @guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248

    In the late 80's early 90's I live near Santa Cruz. Somewhere between Santa Cruz and Davenport on the coastal hwy there was this really cool point. A path lead to the very tip where you could sit. You had a nearly 360 degree view of the ocean. There was 1 rebar piled into the ground so those feint of heart could hold on to for comfort. About 15 years ago I went back to that spot. It was completely gone. Washed away.

  • @carolsuzz
    @carolsuzz Před 7 lety +306

    The wise man builds his house upon the rock.

  • @gordoncrowther7913
    @gordoncrowther7913 Před rokem

    It always astonishes me that people have known that the sea has eroded the land for millions of years, but they still build houses on cliff tops and then complain when they are washed away.

  • @timanctil8225
    @timanctil8225 Před rokem +2

    Husband- "Honey, what happened to our backyard?"
    Wife- "It went swimming..."

  • @edvilla1086
    @edvilla1086 Před 4 lety +34

    The sound of the waves is so soothing.

    • @elekkr
      @elekkr Před 2 lety +2

      I am sure it sooths also the condos owner's nerves . They definitely can use some soothing there

  • @Fragenzeichenplatte
    @Fragenzeichenplatte Před 8 lety +248

    At around 4:30 you can see the cliffs falling down on the right while on the left there is a guy casually standing outside on the second floor. Holy shit, I would be out of there as soon as I can.

    • @dareisnogod7291
      @dareisnogod7291 Před 8 lety +9

      +Fragenzeichenplatte "as soon as I could", NOT "can". Your Welcome.

    • @mysticheadlice1633
      @mysticheadlice1633 Před 8 lety +61

      +Dareis Nogod No, you're welcome.

    • @xlflow
      @xlflow Před 8 lety +3

      +mysticheadlice No, he's not.

    • @phil2u48
      @phil2u48 Před 8 lety +13

      +Fragenzeichenplatte ...and further along, there are people standing on terraces that have already begun to collapse. There is no accounting for dumb.

    • @tedgegi155
      @tedgegi155 Před 8 lety +12

      +Fragenzeichenplatte He was probably more worried about the drone catching him smoking something illegal rather than the crumbling cliffs.

  • @denniskelley8974
    @denniskelley8974 Před 2 lety +1

    Some of the best use of a drone ever.

  • @tanyaegan6586
    @tanyaegan6586 Před rokem +1

    Rolling ocean, cliffs eroding, houses tumbling. Real estate broker: "I've got a place with a great ocean view"

  • @Deelifull
    @Deelifull Před 8 lety +3

    ... absolutely stunning video and sound. I could actually put this on replay and just let it go non-stop.

  • @g.ladylovespurple4003
    @g.ladylovespurple4003 Před 7 lety +73

    can't believe ppl still live there

    • @anthonyagnelneri4076
      @anthonyagnelneri4076 Před 6 lety +1

      G.ladylovespurple is that the Atlantic Ocean???

    • @LiveYourLifeWithJoy
      @LiveYourLifeWithJoy Před 5 lety +2

      @@anthonyagnelneri4076 dude, If it's California...

    • @sarahholmes6281
      @sarahholmes6281 Před 5 lety

      G.ladylovespurple
      Your Joking Right! 😳

    • @TechMyLifeVideo
      @TechMyLifeVideo Před 5 lety

      Anthony Agnelneri serious bloody erosion if it is 😂. Buy a map, or try this new thing called google maps.

  • @leandrotami
    @leandrotami Před 2 lety +1

    In my city we also have cliffs like those and sea erosion has also eaten away a big chunk of land. Some smaller buildings have been lost and what's next is the road. They did build a 'coastal defense' but only time will tell if it's truly effective.

  • @randywarren7101
    @randywarren7101 Před 4 lety +1

    I live in Milwaukee,WI and this is happening on a smaller scale between Milwaukee and the states southern border due to Lake Michigan. Many homes have been declared unlivable.

  • @Blackcatholman
    @Blackcatholman Před 8 lety +12

    Excellent video! Good piloting, good photography, good timing! A vivid demonstration of why you should not build on cliffs near the ocean.

  • @1houroflove186
    @1houroflove186 Před 6 lety +87

    After seeing this I wouldn't even want to be walking on that sidewalk.

  • @sandybennett_itsme
    @sandybennett_itsme Před rokem

    It's amazing that the engineers for these projects had absolutely no concept of the reasons for building on bedrock and what happens when you build on sand.

  • @cheerybellerellegue8309

    Hello and good day! Can I use this video for educational purposes? Thank you and more power!

  • @ouchsp
    @ouchsp Před 5 lety +5

    I like that your drone is so quiet! You can hear the waves and the animals very well!! Great footage, too!

    • @TstanDa-Man
      @TstanDa-Man Před 3 lety +6

      You do realize the sounds you hear are just beach sounds added to the video so you don’t just hear the buzzing of the drone🤦🏻‍♂️

  • @YesYou123333
    @YesYou123333 Před 8 lety +20

    Now THAT'S ocean front property.

    • @alienagent8819
      @alienagent8819 Před 4 lety

      They need make floating homes on the ocean no property tax to pay every year its free live on.

  • @tullochgorum6323
    @tullochgorum6323 Před 2 lety +1

    Nuts. Those houses look quite modern. What kind of developer builds so close to a cliff that's pretty much made of dirt? What kind of planning authority zones it? What kind of insurance company underwrites it? What kind of homeowner buys it? Everyone has taken leave of their senses...
    And I've just realised - the houses aren't evacuated. Seems that the owners have a death-wish too!

  • @DreamsOfFinland
    @DreamsOfFinland Před rokem +1

    how sad to see black tarps flapping in wind, that someone hoped a tarp would stop erosion below. More of this to come.

  • @shipofthesun
    @shipofthesun Před 7 lety +17

    Build on the edge of an unstable cliff, and you don't get to bitch or moan when it falls down.

    • @Absaalookemensch
      @Absaalookemensch Před 7 lety +2

      The cliff was hundreds of feet away when they were built (about 50 years ago).
      Another couple centuries and highway 1 will be in the ocean too (seen in the background).
      This was built long before it was understood how fast coasts decay.

    • @shipofthesun
      @shipofthesun Před 7 lety +1

      "This was built long before it was understood how fast coasts decay."
      Demonstrably false. Humans have known for thousands of years how coasts work. They wanted to build it close, and now, they are paying the price for that hubris.

    • @Absaalookemensch
      @Absaalookemensch Před 7 lety +1

      Howard Barnett
      Wrong, but you get a C for effort.
      No bank would finance a long-term loan or an insurance company for that risk.
      If you doubt me, try it.

    • @xiaoliu3397
      @xiaoliu3397 Před 7 lety

      Global warming issue?

    • @Absaalookemensch
      @Absaalookemensch Před 7 lety +2

      Xiao Liu
      Natural cyclic climate changes?
      When I was a kid in the early 1960s there were parts of the eroded old highway 1 in the middle of the beach about 20 miles south of this scene. It happened decades before the "global warming" boogie man was invented to make money for a few elite.
      Normal climate erosion has been going on since the dawn of time.
      Sorry, the big bad boogie man does not explain this.
      But nice try.
      You get a C- for effort.

  • @dekoning2262
    @dekoning2262 Před 8 lety +443

    i came here to watch the whole building fall to water and get washed away i am now dissapointed

    • @DuncanSinfield
      @DuncanSinfield  Před 8 lety +12

      +RandomMcGameplay You'd better subscribe or else you'll be really disappointed.

    • @dekoning2262
      @dekoning2262 Před 8 lety

      +Duncan Sinfield There you go :)

    • @nucxy2443
      @nucxy2443 Před 8 lety +3

      +Duncan Sinfield So you're saying that youre gonna film it when it falls? :)

    • @dekoning2262
      @dekoning2262 Před 8 lety

      Nucxy yes from my understanding i subbed :D

    • @nucxy2443
      @nucxy2443 Před 8 lety

      +RandomMcGameplay Haha me 2!

  • @sue2019
    @sue2019 Před rokem +1

    The ocean currents take huge amt of sand elsewhere. City of Encinitas, CA started to build a parking lot and restroom and then stopped. 10 yrs later, they did NOT get a new Engineers' study.. Instead they finished building out the restroom and paving the big lot for parking. In those 10 years, the earth/ocean shifted and the first big storm, the restroom & parking lot were buried in water. All that $ spent and the people have no use for it. In nearby Solana Beach, condos r on a ledge that continually cracks and has big pieces falling down to the beach below. Cliff Robertson acted upon the area calling for a cemented cliff to keep the natural erosion.

  • @chriscashflow2238
    @chriscashflow2238 Před 2 lety

    I like the fact that real-estate agents know this and can still get the sale

  • @justmissjamey
    @justmissjamey Před 4 lety +103

    Omg I'm SHOCKED people were LIVING there!!! I'm curious what this looks like on 2019 , since it said this was taken in 2016....are they gone?!

    • @judgelpf2488
      @judgelpf2488 Před 4 lety +5

      Check it here. czcams.com/video/med9Qrw_xQI/video.html

    • @Shloomy_Shloms
      @Shloomy_Shloms Před 3 lety +7

      All those buildings in the edge have been bulldozed and removed, only the concrete foundations remain

    • @markhughes7927
      @markhughes7927 Před 2 lety +2

      All eaten by sharks - every one of them - sad.

    • @rogerhegemier8491
      @rogerhegemier8491 Před rokem

      OH Yes the Buildings in Back are now in the Very Front Once More !!!

  • @WhirledPeasFursure
    @WhirledPeasFursure Před 4 lety +147

    tear down and remove every stupid building along the coast.. the ocean has the right of way..

    • @WhirledPeasFursure
      @WhirledPeasFursure Před 4 lety +4

      @I speak The truth I hear ya,, and I'm ignoring them right now,, just focusing on what would allow the coastline to go back to being clear of all the crap buildings.. I remember that particular coastline before the buildings

    • @killaproject844
      @killaproject844 Před 4 lety +2

      @@WhirledPeasFursure well then let the ocean make its way

    • @Katmandu29
      @Katmandu29 Před 4 lety +1

      WhirledPeasFursure Brilliant!

    • @mohuckmedshishkeblob1712
      @mohuckmedshishkeblob1712 Před 4 lety

      No don't remove them, All the building rubble will make a good break water wall.

    • @millardwashington6216
      @millardwashington6216 Před 4 lety +1

      WhirledPeasFursure the ocean will take the “right of way”.

  • @nancytestani1470
    @nancytestani1470 Před 2 lety +1

    Must have been stunning at one point….but that mighty Pacific just keeps on roaring in. The ocean is stunning to watch.

  • @shahannagrey8427
    @shahannagrey8427 Před 3 lety +3

    If the authorities had just removed those condemned buildings, when it was still safe, it would have taken a lot of pressure off the cliff-face and possibly slowed the collapse.

  • @amream10
    @amream10 Před 4 lety +8

    This video reminds me of one I'd seen either 2017 or 2018 (I think) of a news report of a man who, if I remember correctly lived in PEI Canada, talked to a reporter about how outside his home when he was a little boy he'd go and play in the field that was behind his house. Play baseball I think he said and that the ocean was some distance away. Well now all grown up and probably in his late 50s or early 60s he can now just stand on his porch and see the ocean maybe 30 feet away from his house. That whole field gone!
    I'm sure if someone can find the video they can correct any distance I've mistaken but like this video it makes me sad that this is happening.
    I believe the gentleman said he could get a couple of years more before he'd have to move. Imagine visiting your childhood home wearing scuba gear!?! It now being 2019 I wonder if he's moved yet or even still alive.

  • @Canvai
    @Canvai Před 8 lety +27

    amazing footage!

  • @brookestephen
    @brookestephen Před rokem +1

    SHOCKED there's still people living in those buildings!! SHOCKED!!!

  • @md9710
    @md9710 Před 3 lety +2

    Who else watch this till the end to see what was going to happen?
    This takes living into he edge to a whole new level!

  • @xaiano794
    @xaiano794 Před 7 lety +79

    WTF are people doing in those homes - those could go any time

  • @charmainepark538
    @charmainepark538 Před 4 lety +17

    EROSION HAS BEEN HAPPENING SINCE THE START OF TIME STOP BUILDING ON THE EDGE DA

  • @karlshaner2453
    @karlshaner2453 Před rokem +2

    I figured those places were abandoned until seeing people in there...That is insane!

  • @genedameier8746
    @genedameier8746 Před 3 lety

    Duncan Sinfield, It's now 2021. Can we have an update on this. (Or is there one on YT and I haven't found it.) Thanks

  • @paulgee3411
    @paulgee3411 Před 4 lety +10

    How can 40% of people viewing this video dislike it! That is bizarre. Someone takes the trouble to film, edit, and post a video (ie work and effort) to document and share a thing like this and thousands of people give it a thumbs down? What is wrong with people!

    • @DJWRailroad
      @DJWRailroad Před 4 lety +2

      Well, Paul, I've just formed the opinion that some folks by nature need to be negative, find fault, go against the tide (pun not intended, really). If a trend is going in a positive direction, that all too common ilk needs to build their self-esteem by expressing what they believe to be their dissimilitude by opposing popular opinion with an ineffective rating widget. What's the point, of casting negative feedback? If we don't like a video, just leave, don't waste the time watching an entire video and casting that worthless negative "vote."

    • @blingknight1
      @blingknight1 Před rokem +1

      Maybe it's not the video that they don't like but the erosion and the distress it's causing to people.

    • @imxio
      @imxio Před rokem +1

      @@blingknight1 Exactly what I was thinking. No other explanation makes any sense, really.

    • @bronx3522
      @bronx3522 Před 11 měsíci

      It's because all the people living in those houses are about to fall 400 feet to they're deaths. If they manage to escape the houses are going to end up in the sea anyway!

  • @13612
    @13612 Před 8 lety +45

    This is just one example of why building code should prohibit any construction within 50 to 100 yards of the ocean.......same thing in the carolinas and anywhere along the coastline.........makes about as much sense as building on the side of an active volcano.

    • @populationcontrol2k
      @populationcontrol2k Před 8 lety +15

      +Earl Ismyname ---- Initially they were. This is erosion over time.

    • @JH-uz6me
      @JH-uz6me Před 8 lety +11

      +Earl Ismyname Actually the San Andreas Fault runs directly under those homes. That's how the cliff was formed in the first place. So doubly stupid of them.

    • @artsmith103
      @artsmith103 Před 8 lety +8

      The buildings are about 70 years old.

    • @chadmerkley9465
      @chadmerkley9465 Před 6 lety +4

      Earl Ismyname ...building code? Let's not add not more regulation, rather let's use more common sense.

    • @DesertlizzyThe
      @DesertlizzyThe Před 6 lety +1

      Many do not know that. They don't study up on that land BEFORE moving in. It's the view & opportunity to live that scene.

  • @zalix512
    @zalix512 Před rokem +1

    The land is just sand and mud that was laid in by a giant wave all at once.

  • @bubumic2971
    @bubumic2971 Před 7 lety +41

    " And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”

    • @ronidels5048
      @ronidels5048 Před 5 lety

      The Pacific Ocean is a relentless force of nature, that will continue to erode those bluffs until they are totally decimated by the destructive power of those waves to destroy them with each wave crash that hits them.

    • @Ashley-ro4xz
      @Ashley-ro4xz Před 5 lety +3

      Dang that’s the verse I was looking for!

    • @GreggDuncanMcLean1
      @GreggDuncanMcLean1 Před 5 lety

      @@Ashley-ro4xz Matthew 7:24-27 less we forget. Very sound advise just ask any building contractor in the state

  • @paulrowan1501
    @paulrowan1501 Před 8 lety +21

    Tenant ordered to vacate: "I have a lot more faith in god than to be worried about this". Well, you're going to meet your maker soon, then.

  • @seamripper0000
    @seamripper0000 Před 2 lety +6

    I know I'm late, but I'm wondering if the weight of the buildings adds to the erosion? I see the trail area doesn't look as eroded. Is love to see current pics of the area.
    Also, I read in one of the comments that the waste water outlet seemed to be creating a lot of the issues here, did they find a solution? I would think with real estate prices in that area that this would be a priority to figure out and fix.

    • @Dodgers-sw2uk
      @Dodgers-sw2uk Před 2 lety +1

      No it’s all gone now

    • @HappyOne2017
      @HappyOne2017 Před rokem

      czcams.com/video/hfq-f5YTYYI/video.html

    • @user-kn6sz8ji1j
      @user-kn6sz8ji1j Před rokem +2

      Some people that build near volcanos often wonder the same thing.

  • @grazynazambeanie5963
    @grazynazambeanie5963 Před rokem +1

    Mankind - it's safe to build here , we have things under control
    Mother Nature - hold my beer

  • @boxhawk5070
    @boxhawk5070 Před 6 lety +94

    At least they don't have to mow the back yard anymore.

  • @MrAllan9
    @MrAllan9 Před 4 lety +293

    Didn't Jesus warn us on building on sandy ground?

    • @Losttoanyreason
      @Losttoanyreason Před 4 lety +18

      LOL, very true.

    • @chrisrussell5816
      @chrisrussell5816 Před 4 lety +20

      Yes Very true apparently people don't listen

    • @wilsoncrocker
      @wilsoncrocker Před 4 lety +7

      @Its_an_Invasion_LowInfo_Votees yeah, that 6.3in rise since 1900 is monstrous...

    • @MrAllan9
      @MrAllan9 Před 4 lety +8

      @Its_an_Invasion_LowInfo_Votees Who is ours? You should seek anger management, my brain is not dead, not even sick.

    • @leefrancis4565
      @leefrancis4565 Před 4 lety +2

      Did Jesus own a home?

  • @colinwhite5355
    @colinwhite5355 Před rokem +1

    Who hasn’t had that dream where you’re falling and falling? Occasionally, dreams can come true.

  • @dylan3657
    @dylan3657 Před rokem

    how much is concrete a yard, in ireland concrete per m3
    Prices for concrete throughout the country are ranging between €82 and €96 per cubic metre depending on the class strength required.31 May 2017

  • @martyisabeliever
    @martyisabeliever Před 7 lety +42

    In the words of Jame Marshall Hendrix: "And castles made of sand, crumble to the sea...ahhh...eventually."

    • @nntflow7058
      @nntflow7058 Před 6 lety

      Except the inland would soon became the beach. That's what rising sea level did.

    • @faithrada
      @faithrada Před 6 lety

      martyisabeliever Yup.... timing is everything.

  • @jimforjzs777
    @jimforjzs777 Před 6 lety +4

    Got an update vid ?
    Should have flown up to apt windows.

  • @millieo7155
    @millieo7155 Před rokem

    It is beyond me people looked at this and didn’t realize it was inevitably going to erode. The contractor just had to get them built and sold then he’s out, no longer his problem.

  • @JoeJoe-sq8pj
    @JoeJoe-sq8pj Před 3 lety

    In Mendocino County I have seen properties valued in the millions for sell, right on the beach, next to a hundred feet drop... Some already fell in... I don't feel safe driving down some stretches of route one, let alone live on either side of that road...but, I must say, US1 on the east coast doesn't even come close when it comes to amazing beauty.

  • @Velez0777
    @Velez0777 Před 5 lety +11

    Pretty sad those houses are gonna go. Eventually the city will build a concrete barrier along the edge to stop the erosion, but not until it reaches that freeway in the background.

    • @itchyvet
      @itchyvet Před 4 lety

      No concrete barrier is gonna stop the ocean. L.O.L.

    • @lukez9721
      @lukez9721 Před 4 lety +3

      I don’t know what exactly they expected to happen. Only a moron would make a home right in the edge of a sandy cliff

    • @turdfergurson5992
      @turdfergurson5992 Před 4 lety +2

      The wind is doing it, not water

    • @riaharman5460
      @riaharman5460 Před 3 lety

      @@lukez9721 only a moron would want to buy the home so close to the cliff.

  • @tjcarita
    @tjcarita Před 8 lety +4

    Nice flying! Just saw the footage on the Today Show. Amazing to see! The property values around that area must be tanking... sad to say. The views must be awesome overlooking that cliff I guess people take a big risk to have it.

  • @petuniaromania6294
    @petuniaromania6294 Před 2 lety

    Good Afternoon Duncan. Do you have an update and video on this area along the Pacific Ocean?

    • @DuncanSinfield
      @DuncanSinfield  Před 2 lety

      Yes I filmed it a couple months ago
      Pacifica's coastal erosion problem, 5 years later
      czcams.com/video/hfq-f5YTYYI/video.html

  • @Kinsanth_
    @Kinsanth_ Před 2 lety

    How long did that complex stood there already and how long was the erosion ongoing since its completion?

  • @rosewhite---
    @rosewhite--- Před 4 lety +4

    the cliff face clearly shows the layers of loose sediments laid down during The Flood 4,350 years ago.

    • @rosewhite---
      @rosewhite--- Před 4 lety

      @Mighty Tone Hi, All around the world.
      Look at old cowboy films,
      look at Iraq-Iran battle footage,
      look at WW2 Tunisian desert war between UK, Italy, Germans,
      look at Spaghetti WW2 battle films shot in Africa - there was a lot of these on UK tv recently - all Italian actors pretending to be Americans fighting Germans. Rubbish plot and lipsynch all wrong but the scenery was definietly Flood sediments,
      Look at film of Australian mountains and scenery,
      I have lived in hilly part of West Yorkshire, UK all my life and travelled up many rail and road cuttings through the hill that all show the many layers.
      Geologists desperately try to claim teh layers are due to tectonic plates climbing over each other but the Newtonian Fizziks make that impossible.

    • @rosewhite---
      @rosewhite--- Před 4 lety

      @Mighty Tone Here a Wiki link to lots of the Spaghetti war films.

  • @thetourist6567
    @thetourist6567 Před 4 lety +4

    one moment you live at the top, maybe tomorrow at the bottom

  • @Willy_Tepes
    @Willy_Tepes Před 3 lety +1

    Coastal erosion is not a problem, it is completely normal. Building in such a place is insanity.

  • @rockerjim8045
    @rockerjim8045 Před rokem +3

    When this happened I was on a Californian road trip and after seeing this on a news clip went over to have a look after discovering all of the apartments were fenced off for safety reasons As we were looking through the gap beween the apartments we were about to leave when a bloke came out of the right hand front door. We asked him if we could enter his apartment to see the remains of his back lot only to be told we couldn’t because his “Wife was asleep! inside”

  • @TRICK-OR-TREAT236
    @TRICK-OR-TREAT236 Před 5 lety +13

    LOOKS LIKE AN EXCITING PLACE TO LIVE FOR SURE. RENT'S PROBABLY CHEAP AS WELL.

    • @reynaalvarez8227
      @reynaalvarez8227 Před 4 lety +1

      Es mucha humedad en la tierra y esto hace que se debarate

  •  Před 4 lety +4

    The people that still live in those buildings have to be crazy.

  • @bagpipes978
    @bagpipes978 Před 3 lety +1

    I was in Pacifica four years ago. All of the houses by the beach are boarded up. A total loss. The sand has washed out from under the houses and back out to sea. The houses were going to be demolished and carted away before they fell into the sea themselves. Really sobering. Climate change is resulting in higher sea levels, warmer water, death to coral reefs and all marine life. Catastrophic. And this is just the beginning...

    • @andrewpinkham9904
      @andrewpinkham9904 Před rokem

      you think this is ocean rising because of climate change?according to nasa the oceans are rising at a rate of 1/8th of an inch a year or 6 inches every 50 years.

  • @laurenloveslv655
    @laurenloveslv655 Před rokem

    At first watching this, I assumed those houses were all abandoned, I can't believe people still live there, I would be afraid that the house could go at any minute.

  • @louisematteo5613
    @louisematteo5613 Před 7 lety +4

    Can't believe people still want to live by ocean