CALIFORNIA COAST UNDER SIEGE — 114 Properties Damaged, Governor Warns of 9-FOOT Tides at Christmas

For a fourth straight day, record king tides pushed the Pacific into Southern California beach towns. Huntington Beach is under a local emergency and counts 114 properties damaged this week, mostly in Sunset Beach, where Pacific Coast Highway closed again on Thursday as seawater came up through the storm drains. The Los Angeles tide gauge in San Pedro broke its all-time record on Monday and again on Tuesday at about 8.19 feet (preliminary NOAA data), San Diego Bay reached about 8.52 feet, Santa Barbara beat its record four days in a row, and Newport Beach hit 8.4 feet, the highest ever recorded there. Seawater also flooded streets in Long Beach, Redondo Beach, Mission Beach and Marin County. Governor Gavin Newsom warned tides could reach up to 9 feet around Christmas, and a Halloween weekend storm is on the way. Figures as of Thursday afternoon, October 29, 2026. CHAPTERS 00:00 — Fourth Day of Flooding 00:30 — LA's All-Time Record, Again and Again 01:02 — Sunny Day Flooding 01:30 — Sunset Beach Under Water 02:00 — The Ocean Comes Up Through the Drains 02:35 — Paddling Down the Street 03:07 — Huntington Beach Emergency 03:40 — The Battery Danger 04:12 — Thursday: Flooding Again 04:46 — Newport's Highest Tide Ever 05:20 — Balboa Peninsula 05:54 — Long Beach Bay Spills Over 06:26 — San Diego's Biggest Number 07:03 — 500 Miles of Coast 07:39 — Why the Ocean Is So High 08:11 — Worse Than 1983 08:51 — "Mark Christmas Eve" 09:20 — Stay Out of the Water 09:55 — A Halloween Storm 10:26 — Not Finished Yet #KingTides #CaliforniaFlooding #HuntingtonBeach #ElNino