Cliffside Crack is Getting Closer to Pacific Coast HWY

Oh boy, well this will be interesting. First time doing a live news thing I think. Should be fun, should be fun. The plot thickens. We're back down at Crystal Cove. This is my third day in a row of checking it out and it looks like there's some like Caltrans people that are measuring how far the how far away the crack is from the road and they're not only measuring how far away it is from the road but how deep it is so i just watched them stick a tape measure down the crack which looks like it's about six feet away from the road um i guess it's considered more of like a fracture where you know it might it's yeah it's a stress fracture there's definitely unstable ground right there and uh and the level of the cliff is starting to lower and i think that crack is actually getting i think it's getting bigger it's kind of hard to tell from the past two days i haven't really seen um i haven't i haven't noticed that the crack is this close to the road until today and where they're measuring it is very very close to the road so yeah this thing might have less time than we thought and the only thing we have going for us is that the waves are definitely not as big the next few days and the tides are gradually getting lower so yeah hopefully hopefully they come to some sort of conclusion here but yeah guess this road has not opened up and I don't think it will for a little bit or at least the right lane going southbound has not opened up and it probably won't for a little for a little while and hopefully we have at least one lane going southbound for the next few days but my guess is that it's only a matter of time before they close both so we'll see looks like there's a couple news stations on it Caltrans is definitely uh here in full force a bunch of land surveyor guys measuring stuff and i'm i'm gonna go ahead and say that that crack has gotten closer to the road and probably a little bit deeper too it looks like there's just more of a shadow on the crack than there was yesterday i don't know it's the time of day that i'm shooting it but crack looks like it might be a couple inches bigger than it was so yeah these guys are they've got their work cut out for them for sure i bet you PCH gets closed i bet you the southbound PCH probably gets closed in the next few days oh boy well this will be interesting first time doing a live news thing i think should be fun should be from some muddy waters go over here see if we can find find that crack come up top right off the road holy moly that's where gonna get out of here before we get yelled at or end up in the ocean pretty nuts what it's looking like lots of news stations here lots of people covering the crack in the hill lots of Caltrans workers trying to figure something out trying to figure out if that crack's getting bigger man the difference between low and high tide today look at this this is all fresh rock that has fallen looks like all that is probably gonna go tomorrow but yeah the tide hasn't even gotten to this rock yet you can tell this thing kind of exploded out pretty nuts down here guessing that this is old old parts of the trailer home infrastructure that was down here this is a weird piece of concrete though super weird piece of concrete the hell this is that massive piece of concrete honestly this piece of concrete's probably protecting that cliff face a little bit not so sure what these things are but probably parts of the old trailer park recap of today we did two news interviews one for abc seven another for uh cbs and those were not live i thought i was gonna be live and then we got to surf wedge this morning um waves were actually super pretty not not that amazing but pretty damn good not gonna complain about that day at wedge it was beautiful a couple little skim waves um nothing to write home about other people had some waves to write home about but definitely not me gosh first time pulling up to wedge since all the flooding and crazy big swells can't believe how far back the lifeguard towers are and this berm there's not much left down here it's insane heard that left is kind of sketchy someone's doing it though look at all the new rocks right here i haven't been down the wedge since all the destruction and flooding but there's basically no beach left they built up this huge berm the lifeguard towers are both back there and look at how much jetty's exposed we used to skim skim out past that right there we were skimming into ciders out there never seen a cider off this inside wall little cider right here almost almost doing it little micro ones it'd be a pretty dang day down here today's board of choice oh a nice set too dang this is a good set i love why they built these sand berms up level to the the pier. There's no beach left here either. Skim actually looks pretty good. Skim's kind of actually really good. This is the Balboa parking lot that got super smoked the other day. There was a wave that washed over a sandbar that was smaller than this and just took out the whole parking lot. But yeah I think this is kind of the part of the Balboa Peninsula that had the craziest waves washing up. See if I can find that clip somewhere for you guys. Look at all the sand on these parking space where all the waves are washing up depositing sand this far back pretty crazy it's the main road on Balboa Peninsula got Street Sweeper up here look at all that sand there's like a new beach back here that guy's cleaning it all up look at all the sand in them Wow I think all the sand at Wedge is now on the on the main road at Balboa Peninsula seriously though we think there's probably a lot of sand that was lost from the beaches and are now back all the way back on the roads and stuff. Gotta figure out a way to get that sand back on the beach. Last stop of the day. Just gonna see how the parking lot's holding up. It's not really high tide right now, but you're gonna be able to see some rocks in the parking lot, I'm sure. It's actually pretty cool. Look at this guy. Blue heron, I believe. Blue heron just hanging out right at the creek break. It's a big bird. So this is actually pretty insane. This is where you drive into the Aliso parking lot. And there used to be a part where you could kind of park here and check out the waves and it's about a foot under sand maybe maybe two feet under sand look there's the entryway this is so deep right here well i think we know where some of the sand from the beach went it went into the damn parking lot and into the park the park has like nice sand it used to have like kind of brown gross sand but now it's like all beach sand that's right where the old shower used to be and these are i believe new rocks that they dumped in a lot of the new rocks got blown into the parking lot the parking lot's kind of unrecognizable they had to move the lifeguard tower back sidewalks getting undercut the pier since look at oh yeah the pay booth this used to be the pay here pay here the pay booth is gone because it got blown back into the parking lot so nuts all right and go give our friends at the lost pier some love they're actually open right now i'm uh stoked to see that they're still in business because there's waves washing up into their doorstep the other day and they have not had any business for a while so go check out the lost pier down here at Aliso Beach you have to park in the back lot and then walk over and uh it's a nice little walk go under the pedestrian tunnel don't cross PCH they've got good food over there parking lot sea glass dude there's so many boulders right here gotta be some good sea glass in here where is it at this is a day of dropping swell swell is supposed to be small right now still a full wave just been pumping all summer long very few down days we're supposed to get more waves this weekend crazy still buried in sand the parking lot's buried in sand the beach is covered in rock everywhere where you want the sand it's not it's looking pretty dismal down there and it's probably going to be pretty dismal for a while but the lost pier is open so go pay them a visit good breakfast burrito and a really good smoothie just gonna have to pay the uh ocean view prices but we love them especially after a really good session at Aliso you kind of go and treat yourself get some good waves get some good ciders go get a damn smoothie that's eight dollars who cares all right enjoy talk to you peace