Bus-sized chunk of concrete washes ashore in Long Beach
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- Residents in Long Beach were puzzled to see the large slab of concrete in the middle of the beach. Officials believe it's a piece of dock from Hotel Maya about five miles away. Mekahlo Medina reports for the NBC4 News on March 11, 2024.
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Ok. It’s a floating dock. I was initially very confused as to how a giant piece of concrete could wash up.
im here thinking there is no way that just washed up on the beach by the power of the ocean and no report of monster waves.
So, a regular dock? Why does that reporter call it a “dry dock”? He’s confused.
Ditto
@@joeconrad3828 "Reporters" were never the bright bulbs... they get one of the easiest degrees. I don't watch them anymore. Their ignorance of things at even a 3rd grade level is astounding.
@@joeconrad3828it’s definitely dry on the sand now 😂
Seament
Ha! I see what you did there...
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My ex was in the maritime business, hiring new people to work up in AK. Basically, she kept boats filled with seamen.
Good 1 x3
🔥🔥🔥
As a former marine contractor. Floating Docks like this accumulate barnacles and other sea life, sometimes when a section breaks off it sinks enough to go just below the surface of the water but it's still floating. The chuck on the beach is likely styrofoam blocks encased in concrete. The way they said how they moved it shows that it doesn't weigh as much as it looks.
Just the media trying to manipulate everybody like they always do
Interesting! Thank you very much
Thank you for this explanation. I was wondering how concrete can just float... 🤔😏
But it's not a dry dock, that is an entirely different thing.
That makes sense..
I'm glad they gave me several descriptions of what a school bus looks like, specifically long Beach school busses. I've never seen one before, so I'm very glad that they told me about school busses.
Like Kackala Harris tells us about yellow school buses
Open floorplan, Brutalism, and Beach front property, probably 1Mill
I was gonna say "That's brutalism if ever I did see it!"
Mad due to the cost of property in SoCal.😂
I can make that work !!
Good Airbnb investment property!
I salute your knowledge of architectural styles.
Atleast they came up with a solid Concrete plan for removal.
Or a plan for solid concrete removal.....
No pun intended 😂
😎🏆
😂😂😂😂
That must have been a major hazard to shipping while it was floating around.
You’d be surprised. It’s not ideal, but it’s also not made of solid concrete, more of a styrofoam material with the a concrete coating.
Squatters are like "This is my beach house, I signed a lease!"
This Florida, now you in jail!
So it was built to float and it floated away....amazing.
Well it tore off through quite a bit of rebar and concrete first lol
😂
Lol
Incredible!!
@@blacksilverchair3315 😅😅😅😅
Before they mentioned it was capable of floating, I was wondering how in the Hell a chunk of concrete that big could wash up. The water movement necessary to wash up a chunk of concrete that size would tear up the entire seafloor.
right im looking in the background thinking no way and thoes buildings are still there, no reports of a massive wave...
Really, Amelia Earhart's plane is probably on top of Mt Everest.....
Me too
That was me as well
Lol
it's a FLOATING dock so IT'S NOT SOLID CONCRETE , it has large air pockets built in it so even though it would sink below the visible water line with enough water over top of it and current it can be moved because it becomes buoyant once deep enough with the increased water pressure at depth.
You say large pockets of air, I say it could be large pockets of Jelly Beans. We will find out soon enough when it is dismantled.
Well check out the big brain on Bob!
That's great but, what kind of bus is it the size of?
This " it becomes buoyant once deep enough with the increased water pressure at depth." is just simply wrong.
I have large pockets of air in my colon.
I'll bet you everyone who walked by, and saw it said something like, "Gee, that's about the size of one of those yellow school buses that you see driving around Long Beach." 🤓
😅🤣😂😆😂 You beat me to it.
Weird. Just the other day I was describing a school bus to a friend, and I used a giant piece of concrete to help with the description.
A always compare large objects to twinkies.
Synchronicity.
Not coincidence.
@@kristy9337!! everything is connected
You know what else is weird. I just bought a red bull from the store using cash and I left my phone in my car .Got back , Open up youtube and the first ad I get is for red bull 😒🤦
@@PilyaTRisyazhnyuk-yl3wl Yep.
This is the kind of journalism that we need to see today. Groundbreaking.
as long as it is not involving with 13% or illegal aliens.
literally...beach art...
If they didn't cover it they'd be accused of "hiding the truth" 😂
Ask the Egyptians
Haha
Steel doesn't float either and yet we build ships out of it. Although the end of WWII marked the end of large-scale concrete ship building, to this day, smaller recreational boats are still being made from concrete.
Speaking of WWII the allies constructed two Mulberry Harbours using floating concrete blocks to support the invasion of Normandy, they worked exceptionally well for offloading equipment from the larger ships that couldn't make it into the shallows, helped us get enough equipment and supplies ashore to keep up the fight until we captured a proper port.
Believe it or not, boats have been made out of concrete since at least WW2 when the military experimented with making extremely large ships out of concrete and even the Mulberry Harbors for the D-Day Landings were poured concrete floated across the English Channel to Normandy and then sunk intentionally to create the docks for the temporary harbors for the D-Day Landing and supplies until a deep water port was captured. Even more modern day sailboats have been made with concrete hulls, the weight of something intended to float is irrelevant if the amount of water it displaces is greater than its weight
UFO unidentified floating object
You win the internet today hands down.
Oh yes it does
Nice, fit right in there.
God bless everyone.
If you watched and listened to the video, it has always been IDENTIFIED. But good luck voting for trump this year, you're gonna need it.
@@OregonCrow you're going to have to get a viable candidate for president before I vote
“In Long Beach, we are used to trash and debris”. Yes, indeed you are
But sometimes they go back to Compton..
Not even Compton. Probably another jelly hater.@kristy9337
Brutal
The LBC.. where the sewage meets the sea
And ultra cracked f'ed up roads and streets
Surprised nobody hit that with their boat. May have been partially submerged so nobody noticed it until it actually came as short.
I was so confused at the title thinking how does concrete "wash up" anywhere? lol glad it makes sense now 😂
Even the concrete is confused in California..
it was part of a dry dock. Don't get out much, do you
@@frankmacleod2565it’s spy concrete working for the government
LOL!
nope that is trump the 🍊🤡 during one of his s...t show nazi clan rallies. so sad.
It's got bum dookie on it already. Bet.
I enjoyed the perspective of numerous citizens and their description of the concrete, especially the numerous references to school busses. It helped me visualize exactly what I was already looking at on the video.
🤣
But the reporter referenced a SPECIFIC type of yellow school bus: the kind of yellow school bus you would see around Long Beach... Being from Oregon, I can't imagine what that looks like.
@lc3853 great point! Wonder why he got so specific? Now, only people from Long Beach, or people that have been there, could ever know what that concrete slab looks like. That was a big blunder. I guess you could Google "Long Beach school busses" and finally imagine the slab, not sure if it'll help but worth a try.
What was insane is that these citizens don't question when told cement floats
Geez how big is that thing? It must be the size of a.....bus
Concrete in ground swimming pools can float as well ocean waves from Hurricanes can lift up in ground swimming pools and wash out.
This story proves how a news organization can adjust a story to fit their narrative.
I was confused until the correct explanation at the end.
If the slab of concrete belongs to the Hotel Maya, then send them the bill for the cost of removing THEIR PROPERTY from the beach in Long Beach, CA.
Yeah, then they can milk the removal for 4 weeks !
Sure. Can we also sue Mother Nature for removing it, too?
Answer to your question.
No stupid. That would be silly and futile. Next time you want to be a smart *ss, don’t, because you only proved you’re a dumb *ss.
Apparently, you haven’t learned that it is wiser to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak and leave no doubt.
Intelligent people know and recognize my original commentary has merit. I offer this analogy to those that don’t get it immediately.
Suppose a homeowner built a gazebo in his backyard. Then, one day ‘Mother Nature’ caused a tornado and the strong winds picked up this gazebo and drop it on lyraserpentine’s property. While the homeowner may not have legal responsibility for damage it cause upon landing. Ownership of the gazebo remains his. Lyra would demand that the gazebo be claimed and removed at then owner’s expense. But, the homeowner doesn’t want to incur the expense. Lyra could demolish the gazebo and remove it from her property and sue this irresponsible homeowner to recover damages.
Suing the owner is justifiable.
Suing ‘Mother Nature’ is the sarcastic idea of a clown (and not mine).
Hotel Maya announces new expansion plans including local beachfront. Work has already commenced.
@lyraserpentine894 No stupid. But, a genius like you could try.
The power of water is amazing
The power of styrofoam embedded in concrete.
Astounding how powerful the ocean is
I don't live near the ocean, so it seems strange to me nobody noticed it working its way onto shore. I mean, does it happen all at once with one wave? Or does something like this wash up over hours?
Better move it quick before someone puts a tent on it !!
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
But that could house a lot of people
Yous won't be laughing if trump gets in office again and we all become homeless and hopeless. He ll be your dictator and chief thief.
SQUATTERS RIGHTS!!
Trumps new largo
WTH is a hotel doing with a drydock? They in the ship repair business too?
Are you upset about it ?
Cartel owned
"Hey baby, wanna come back to my hotel and help me buff my skiff?"
Most likely a regular dock, but the reporter was told wrong.
Floating dock not repair drydock!
Reporters know very little …..
It washed ashore, and then they were able to pull it (I assume by tractor) to this location? Neither one of those makes sense it looks like it weighs too much to pull with a tractor, or for waves to roll around that far up shore. Man that is some power.
At Newport Oregon there is a piece of a floating cement dock that came all the way from Japan. Pretty amazing
There are lots of floating concrete structures in the world. Some boats are even made out of concrete.
Its cheap and durable. And it looks like the bottom is styrofoam, which is used for floats and docks.
First cement boat made in 1860 still exists in a museum in France or Belgium if I remember correctly
STYROFOAM, holy crap no wonder it broke off.
Wow! I didn't know it was that long ago. Here in Nova Scotia our tradition is wooden boat building.
But the builders are always looking for newer, cheaper materials. Concrete and fiberglas with wood.
Sorry I’ve been conditioned by the news to only accept football fields as a unit of measurement. Either that or bald eagles.
👍
Numbers are hard. I prefer drawings or holding up a hand with "this many" on it.
@@404_profile_not_found 😂 love it
I got your conversions; 33.6 bald eagles long, 2.1 BE's high, 3.44 BE's wide 👍
Imagine how many times someone’s freaked out after their leg touched it in the shallows before it washed ashore?
I know that feeling did it with a reef. I was back to shore so fast.
What are you, 9 years old??
What an absolute wimp
Wow! Good thing no one on a small or large pleasure yacht hit it while sailing out in the ocean. Could have been catastrophic for the people on board especially if sleeping in lower forward cabins.
Concrete floating down the Los Angeles river and no one caught it on video… himmm.
,and this is the mindset that this country needs about EVERYTHING!!
it floats just below the surface
It floated out into the ocean during the storms. The hotel was at the mouth of the LA river. It's almost as if people were distracted by the flood and foul weather.
they probably thought it was a homeless shelter
So many questions. Look for Hoffa.
@@texforister7023 😱😳😬😂👀
I'm glad to see that there are enough of us old folks still around to get the reference.
Hard to believe a piece of Concrete that large could float?
Man I hate the way local reporters report news.
2weeks!?!?!? are they taking it apart with teaspoons?
Imagine that thing was soaring through the ocean pummeling anything in its way.
Makes you consider underwater life having yet another thing to fear
how many washing machines is it?
Nice speed bump for a boat. Giant piece of concrete floating around, good thing no one ran into it.
That thing has been in the ocean a long time judging by the barnacles.
Where else would a floating dock float, the highway?
All the garbage is free to show up in San Francisco
There are numerous Mulberry harbours along the Normandy coast, relics from the D-Day landings. These were towed across the English Channel and positioned to allow vehicles to drive off the larger ships, straight on to the beach.
It's a block of concrete identifying as a dock.
How about the cement ship up North at Seacliff beach? I know it’s about disintegrated now, but many years ago it did float and was used!
Correct. This piece can float.
Somebody break off small pieces to sell as souvenirs on the beach!
Lol
Pet rock 24
Dr Dre & Snoop Dog "break em off sumpin'"
Wind and water are two of the strongest elements in nature, aside from stone. If all three work together, or a combination of two of them, things like this can happen. A bus-sized floating dock with a good portion made of concrete can be pushed ashore after coming loose from somewhere else. Likewise, using a focused stream of water and sand grains, one can saw through a slab of solid granite in under an hour.
I was thinking it came from the concrete ship at Cape May Point until they said it was part of a dock.
hollow concrete there was concrete from Japan that washed ashore in the US from their Tsunami years ago
I agree with you these probably tsunami walls
The Oegon Coast has had several of these wash up as well, just not as big as this chunk.
Saw one Japanese dock at Big Lagoon.
@@Emy4316 Or it is exactly as described in video.
14 tons of concrete does wash up , no tide is strong enough
It floats, you smart guy.
(turns out that if you make concrete with styrofoam or something like that as the aggregate, it's technically still "concrete" but it's less dense than water, so will float.)
@@jameswheeler5260correct, not the same mix that would be used for a sidewalk or parking garage.
i bet you find it amazing that a steel battle ship floats ..
They used concrete boats in past wars. You can see one off the coast of cape may that sank
That is what I want, a selfie with the chunk of concrete
How many times did you tell us it was the size of a school bus?
Reminds me of the movie The Giant Claw, where they keep mentioning that the monster is 'as big as a battleship' or 'a flying battleship' in almost every scene.😅
OMG! That chunk of concrete is as big as, and probably weighs as much as Joy Behar!
you won the internet for today.
It's crazy I've seen a piece of dock just sitting on the beach before this one
How does it wash up? It weighs like 100 tons
That is crazy huge, I don’t even understand how this even floats & washes up on the shore 🤔
How does concrete “wash up” ashore? Shouldn’t it just sink to the bottom and stay there?
you didn't watch the video, did you
its hollow-crete.....it floats it washes ashore all the time here in Hawaii too..
No, the person watched several times, and currently being enrolled at Harvard, is an example of today's quality (of) education.@@frankmacleod2565
Oh I watched it, guess I was focusing too much on the word “concrete” in the title to notice anyone saying it’s some form of ultra light float-crete or some junk. Probably while high, no need to be snippy about it tho, sh*t happens. Also it looks like 29 people had the same thought. At least @tame was informative about it. Always appreciate when someone can be corrective in a civilized manor instead of un constructive criticizing.
@@Kr0nicDragon That was my thought at first too, then I watched the video.
Because of all the dead bodies pored into the block, it floats
Stone Temple Pilots!
That's funny.
So engineers can make a bus size concrete block float but can’t figure out how to add parachutes to commercial airlines?🤦🏻♂️
The power of the ocean is just amazing!
When did we start measuring everything that's mysterious in buses?
Nobody wants to use the metric system 😀
No one knows how long a bus is. They just know it's about the length of a bus.
A fraction of a football field?
No wonder Europeans see us as idiots.
Even the beaches want to build a wall around california.
😂😂😂
As they should.
Maybe it’s a piece of that wall that Donny boy tried to set up?
😂😂
Please do and don't ever come to visit.
@@thomasthurston6656 tipical Californian to lazy to spell don't.
It's not a dry dock. Hotels might have floating docks, but they don't do major ship repairs. These reporters just use words they don't understand.
Lady said: "they are used to trash and debris". I agree! See that every time in in So-Cal and it makes me sad.
How does concrete float ?
It sits on top of the water.
its California don't ask.. but it identifies as a dingy.
There are entire ships made of concrete...
Its not solid concrete. The story mentions it is from a floating dock, meaning that whoever engineered it made sure there were buoyancy devices embedded.
That could mean airtight barrels, an air bladder, or possibly sealed cell foam.
@@ezdeezytube😂 😂 😂 😂
Why didn't Donald Trump stop this?
It's like he doesn't even care.
He is to busy getting read to Make America Great Again in 2025
😂🤪🤣
If it has been there a week already you'd think someone would go ahead and cut those rebar rods before they impale somebody. That's a highly dangerous thing to be sitting in a busy open place!
The power of nature ❤
That 10 tin piece of concrete ain't washing up no where..
true, it already washed up in Long Beach
10 tin? no not tin or metal... its made of concrete
in reality its its hollow-crete, and it floats....that stuff washes ashore all the time here in Hawaii. even bigger than that
alohahahaha
It identifies as a chunk of concrete, but you still have to yield to the red and yellow lights for the kids safety…😂
Oh man, that’s just crazy
It would probably only a day and a half to break down the concrete then maybe a day to haul it off
Call them and give them instructions.
good, then get to work
Government work. 2 weeks for anything to get done, best case.
That's scary, imagine if it hit the pillars of the Pier
We've had a similar chunk on display up here in Newport, OR. From the Japan tsunami years ago.
The ocean sure is powerful, I wonder how many tons that is.
"Biden '24" spray painted on a slab of concrete lol
I don’t understand how something so massive and heavy is going to wash up on the beach makes no sense
Chinese spy concrete slab, way more stealthily than baloons.
@@kevinl3235 like a weather ballon lol. Only problem is concrete don’t float but I guess we’re all stupid they think
It’s because you’re dumb like really dumb
@@steverodriguez4871 Research concrete ships, fool.
Guess what? Ships are also built of steel.
Wow i was wondering what that was and how it washed up we had some storms last week
How could something so heavy just wash up like it’s plastic litter???
That graffiti is wrong af
It's Commifornia, what did you expect?
just like the name implies a complete failure 😅😅😅😅
24 just barely washed ashore. Looking like that
LoL
@@morrismonet3554
Idiot.
@@IDK_Mr.M Do tell us what 'inside knowledge' you have regarding its origin.
The concrete block declined comment.
Were there any mussels attached to it?
The ocean took the phrase “if it’s not tied down then it’s for the taking” literally
There will be graffiti before tomorrow.
2:00 It already says BIDEN 24
@@BradThePitts😂
@@BradThePitts even washed up concrete votes for uncle joe.
@@BradThePitts tells what kind of people support Biden.
@@davidjacobs8558we know what kind of people support Trump
It’s a spaceship from outer space with spacemen inside. Call News Nation!
So, Alien Seamen Inside the Block. Hmm very interesting.
People that say concrete can't float would really flip out if you showed them a concrete boat.
The fact that the local news fully believes that a 100 TON piece of concrete could "wash up on a beach" tells you everything you need to know about your media! This was a floating dock, not made of solid concrete, it floated there.
Why does everyone from California sound like their elevator doesn't go all the way to the top?
It's the Gaslighting..✔️🍵
1:51 red hat Karen woman is the type of “Californian” that real, down-to-earth Californias don’t like about California. *”Our beautiful Long Beach”* I wanted to 🤮
Because California is half native Californians and half illegal immigrants, foreigners, and people from all the other states
You know we’re not all like that. She has Karen vibes. Most of us are down-to-earth & don’t act like we’re superior to anyone else. She prolly from another state 🙄
@@JT-py7ze yea. 1000000% correct 💯💯💯
They've build ships and yachts out of concrete, so . . . .
Something that large and heavy doesn't merely float 5 miles in the ocean to a beach.
Wow, I didn’t even see this when I was last there! I didn’t see this at Alamitos Beach. Omg! 😮
Has the concrete chosen it's gender?
say hello to your sister wife for me.
No, but it sure knows who it's going to vote for.
Addadicktome.
@@Toekneepowers I bet the concrete doesn't know what a woman is
Have you grown a brain cell?
How does concrete float/wash up?!
It is not solid concrete. As they reported, it was designed to float.
There are entire ships made of concrete.
It floats in the same way that steel ships float. You put air inside it.
It doesn't, until now.
You're saying a concrete block of that size FLOATED?? HOW???
Scary to think that could of hit someone. Why they ignore something like that is crazy to think about.
Floating concrete?
There are entire ships made of concrete.