My Cali trip

[patrick66]

I was out in the Bay Area recently to help and support my little sister, who had a double lung transplant at UCSF in October. We were in Pacifica, which is a really lovely town South of SF proper, and right on the coast. She was using a very nice fifth wheel trailer that her roomie provided, so she could do all of her follow-up activities before ultimately going home right after Christmas. I had not been in the Bay Area since 1992, and that was transiting through SFO. Her campground was right on the seashore, on a bluff about fifty feet up off the beach level. A beautiful location! Well, until a week and a half ago on the day my sister left to go home...

Much of the bluff eroded away after 20' - 30' waves crashed the bluff the day my Sis departed SFO. About twenty feet of the parking lot fell into the water as the surface was undercut by the wave action. No RVs were lost, but the campground had its space renters evacuate and move their rigs. The City of Pacifica took a huge hit, knocking down and eroding much of the seawall that kept things right just a few days earlier. Highway 1 runs right past my hotel, and since it was just a few feet above sea level and with minimum breaks in places, it was chock-full of sand and debris. From what I've seen on news coverage that is available on YT, most of the places I visited in Pacifica and Half Moon Bay are a huge mess now. Such a shame, too; as there are beautiful 60-100 year old homes that once were a quarter-mile or more from the sea, now are at risk of tumbling down the cliffs. Crazy.

I'll post some "before" pics later today.

 

[Budnicks]

Yep they've been getting pounded, by a few consecutive storms now...

 

[oldkimmer]

I just seen this. Hopefully all is well and your sister is doing fine on her recovery. Kim

 

[threewood]

Prayers for your sister. As far as shoreline erosion is concerned, Mother Nature can't be stopped. 1/4 mile of lost property is crazy. Are these properties able to get insurance? The bay area is beautiful, too bad it is a shell of what it once was 30 years ago.

 

[hemi71x]

I have friends that live in Pacifica. CA.
It is a very nice place, town, city, out here in California.
But, ya, mother nature sure has done her thing during the winter time, which nothing really can be done about, sad to say.

 

[GetX'd]

Yes of course prayers that your Sis has recovered nicely and is living a whole and healthy life again. On Pacifica - very unfortunate as that is indeed a lovely place. My only thoughts are - Unfortunately the waves weren’t a bit north and could have swept that sewer of a city SF into the sea and out to its demise ….