The recent storms have accelerated coastal erosion in parts of California, experts say, raising new concerns about homes and communities along the California coast. NBC News’ Liz Kreutz reports.
In a coastal Southern California city where multimillion-dollar estates teeter above the Pacific Ocean, power remained severed Monday to about 140 homes as worsening landslides have triggered evacaution warnings and gas service shutoff.
Scientists began testing the area following the shut off of gas service last month in Portuguese Bend after 'significant new land movement' was putting a 'strain' on infrastructure. The city's Public Works director, Ramzi Awwad, said at a recent council meeting that the land movement was 'new and unprecedented.' An increase in heavy rains over the past two years has only exacerbated the problem along California's coast, with water saturating the hillsides.
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