On Friday morning in Newport Beach, the water came off the sand and into the streets of the Balboa Peninsula, mainly through the wedge, the gap at the end of the jetty that turns a south swell into a wall. By 9:00, the ocean was in the intersections along Balboa Boulevard, lapping at front doors on West Bay Avenue, standing at least a foot deep across 15 to 20 blocks with cars abandoned in it and paddle boarders going down the middle of residential streets.
Six city crews with heavy equipment rebuilt sand berms as fast as the tide took them down, and the tide took them down faster. The city opened its 86 tidal valves and ran its 18 pumps. Its utilities director, Mark Vukoyovic, said the morning tide had come in about 20 in above the prediction. It's significant. We've seen it be 12 in higher, but this is, you know, kind of record-breaking for us. City Councilman Joe Stapleton. This is the worst I've seen it in my 20 years on the peninsula. The city spokesperson, Georgia Rios, this swell was very unprecedented coming up that high. And then this is not even the worst that is expected.
By the afternoon, the city manager, Simone Jurgis, had declared a local emergency. And the mayor, Lauren Klyman, stood at a 6:00 news conference and said the city's priority is the safety of its residents and visitors. Ali Bickl did not get her front door shut before the water came through it. Patricia Abby, who owns a studio on the peninsula, saw the pictures online and assumed they were fake until she got stuck in the traffic and watched the water come in. Flynn Brown had it up to the doors of his car.
Super dangerous.
Jonathan W's whole street was underwater and what he had been told was that Sunday would be worse. In Long Beach, the waves came through the bulkhead on the Alamito's Peninsula on Friday morning and hit the homes on Seaside Walk. The burns the city had built after the last storm washed away in places. The boardwalk was torn apart. The debris floated offshore. The water washed around and under the waterfront houses. By Friday evening, the city had ordered the homes between 64th and 66th Place evacuated until at least noon on Tuesday. closed the streets from 62nd place to residents only and by its own count reported Friday night red tagged eight buildings across 13 addresses.
It is the second time in 5 weeks that those blocks have been emptied. Hurricane Marie swell did it in September. The city's spokesperson, Loth Martin, "We've had three storms back pretty much back to back to back, and it's hard to predict exactly what will happen, but just based on forecasts, we're preparing for more damage.
Down the coast, Lagona Beach had Coast Highway underwater at Broadway and Maine Beach under standing water. Sunset Beach had its streets flooded and Huntington Beach opened its emergency operations center. At Sanonre, the state closed the parking at Surf Beach after the shoreline was damaged.
At Capistrano Beach, where Marie demolished two homes and red tagged eight, the water rose toward the houses again. No injuries were reported anywhere on the coast. That was Friday. Rachel was 800 m out. Here is the timing that makes this worse than it looks. At 2:00 on Friday afternoon, the hurricane center weakened Rachel to 45 miles an hour and in the same advisory issued a tropical storm warning for the west coast of Baja California from San Jose de Las Palomas all the way north to the United States border. At 8 that night, it added a warning for the east coast of the peninsula from Isla San Louis to Puerto Pasco. At 11:00, the headline changed. Rachel strengthens slightly. 60 mph, 990 mibars, the lowest pressure of the day. And the forward speed, which had been 5 mph on Friday morning, was 12.
By 2:00 Saturday morning, it was 22. 640 mi southswest of San Diego, moving northeast at 22 mph with tropical storm force winds reaching 125 mi from the center. The forecaster, Gibbs, wrote that the center will approach and move ashore near the United States Mexico border tonight, that some additional strengthening is possible before landfall up to about 65 mph, and that the storm will weaken quickly over the mountains after it crosses. Tropical storm conditions are expected in northern Baja. They are possible in the watch area in California. The hurricane c center's own odds of tropical storm force winds 51% Yuma Arizona 22% San Diego 18% Tijuana 14%. And it's words for the coast. Life-threatening surf and rip currents and moderate to major coastal flooding worst tonight into Sunday morning when high waves coincide with already elevated tides. Already elevated. That is the whole story. And the hurricane center is not the only agency that has noticed. Now, the California clock at 3 minutes to 2 on Saturday morning, the Los Angeles forecast office issued a coastal flood warning for the Malibu coast and the Los Angeles County beaches in effect until 3:00 Sunday afternoon. Its words, "For vulnerable south-facing beaches, especially Long Beach and Malibu, damaging seawater flooding is likely. High tides of 7.3 to 7.6 6 feet will be common each morning. High surf of 5 to 8 ft. Stay off of beaches and coastal walkways, roads, and structures. Rock jetties can be deadly in such conditions. And one more line. This warning may be extended past Sunday. A separate warning covers Avalon on Catalina Island. 6 minutes later, the San Diego office issued its own for the Orange County and San Diego County coasts marked severe. Significant coastal flooding and erosion is likely through Sunday afternoon. Tides locally over 7 ft. Surf of 5 to 7 ft with sets to 9 ft and the greatest impacts on Sunday morning when Rachel's swell, the onshore wind, and the tide arrive together. Then a flood watch from 11:00 Saturday night to 8:00 Sunday evening, covering the San Diego County coast, valleys, mountains, and deserts, the San Bernardino and Riverside Mountains, and the Coachella Valley with rain rates of half an inch to 6/10 of an inch per hour on the coast, and up to an inch per hour in the mountains. Half an inch to an inch and a quarter of rain on the coast and in the valleys, 1 to 2 1/2 in the mountains. The San Diego River at Fashion Valley forecast to crest at 7.4 4 ft. On Sunday afternoon, gusts of 55 mph in the mountains and the desert, 60 on the ridges and passes. The Phoenix office has a wind advisory for the Imperial Valley and Southwest Arizona with gusts to 55 m an hour and a flood watch from 5 on Saturday afternoon. The hurricane center has 1 to 3 in across the southwest, 5 in locally, and the words significant flash and urban flooding. But here is the detail that tells the real story. The ocean was already breaking the coast before Rachel turned, and it is getting higher, not lower. Friday morning's high tide ran a foot and a/4 to a foot and a half above the tables at every gauge. Friday night's high tide, which is normally the smaller of the two, ran higher still. San Diego 7.18 ft against a prediction of 5.55, a foot and 2/3 too high. La Hoya a foot and a half too high. Los Angeles, which is the gauge for Long Beach, 6.68 against 5.2, a foot and a half. Santa Monica, Santa Barbara, the same. And at 3:00 on Saturday morning, at dead low tide, the water at San Diego was still a foot and 6/10 above where the table said it should be. The whole ocean is sitting higher. The Los Angeles Times put the same numbers in inches on Friday, 17 in above prediction at San Diego, 16 at Santa Monica, 14 at San Francisco. This is not a Southern California problem. It is the entire coast. Dylan Amaya, who studies this ocean at North Carolina State, said on Friday, "I do think the Kelvin wave has made it to San Diego and Los Angeles at this point." A Kelvin wave is a pulse of warm water that rides up the coast at about 6 m an hour. He puts about 6 in of the extra water on it and says three or four more are coming over the next months, one already off Mexico. Michael J. Cox of Noah Fisheries said, "It's not that this Kelvin wave is going to come and flood anything on its own. It does not have to." Shan Batusk, a research oceanographer at the United States Geological Survey, finished the 10:50 10 minutes, 50 seconds sentence. The loss of protected beaches also increases wave impacts and coastal flooding on property and infrastructure. The beaches are the part that is gone. Between 62nd and 69th place in Long Beach, the sand is so far down that the trucks cannot get onto it. The city's $230,000 emergency sandfill starts on Saturday. The 11.4 million dredge that would actually rebuild the beach starts the week of October 19th. Sunday's tide is before both. Out at the buoys on Saturday morning, the water off Point Loma is 74 to 75 degrees and the swell is arriving at 19 to 21 seconds between waves, the long slow period of energy sent from a long way off. The Climate Prediction Center put the odds of a record El Nino at 83% on Thursday. And the hurricane center's own discussion on Friday put the water off northern Baja at 6 to 7° C above normal, which is why a storm it had written off as a dying remnant on Thursday was strengthening on Friday night. So, here is the arithmetic, and it is ours, not the weather services. Sunday morning's predicted tide at San Diego is 6.48 48 ft at 947. Add the foot and a half to foot and 3/4 the ocean has been running all week and you are at 8 ft before any wind, before any surge, before the swell peaks. The Los Angeles offic's official number for Long Beach is 7.3 to 7.6 and its official word is damaging. Now, the rest of the map, because this is the weekend Mexico gets two storms. Hurricane Simon, which was 100 miles an hour on Friday, is a category 4 at 145 on Saturday morning, 125 mi south of Manzano. still quickly intensifying in the hurricane c center's words under a hurricane warning from Punta Santelmo past Puerto Vayarta to El Roito with 10 to 20 ines of rain forecast and 30 in spots. Preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion. It comes ashore later Saturday or early Sunday, the same night Rachel reaches the border. And on the other side of the continent, what is left of Hurricane Isaas is over Alabama as a remnant, still flooding the Gulf Coast with up to 15 ines of rain. Three storms, one night. In Baja California, the state has a preventive alert in force and temporary shelters open with Sunday as the peak. Heavy rain in Tijuana, Rosarito, Teate, Mexicali, Ensenada, and San Quintin. and gusts reported up to 140 km an hour, 87 mph. Rachel has been alive for 2 weeks. It closed schools in Kalisco and Los Cabos on its way north, wandered 900 miles out to sea, and is now finishing at the top of the peninsula. The only tropical storm ever to make landfall in California at that strength came ashore near San Pedro in September 1939 and killed 93 people. Hurricane Hillary in August of 2023 was the only other storm to earn this coast a tropical storm watch. It did about $900 million of damage. Rachel has already flooded Newport Beach, evacuated Long Beach, and closed Coast Highway in Lagona, and it is still $600 away. Now, the part that has to be said plainly. As of 2:00 Saturday morning, the United States side has a watch, not a warning. The odds of tropical storm force wind in San Diego are 18%. No rain had fallen in San Diego County. No one was hurt on Friday. The water went back out of Newport Beach by Friday afternoon, and the roads reopened. The marathon in Long Beach with more than 28,000 runners was still scheduled to start at half 5 on Sunday morning on Shoreline Drive, 4 and a half hours before the tide. And the hurricane cent's 8:00 advisory on Saturday morning is the one that can turn the watch into the first tropical storm warning for Southern California since Hillary. Saturday's morning high tide at 9:21 in San Diego and 9:24 in Long Beach is the first tide since the warnings went up and the city of Long Beach's own forecast for it is 7.4 ft. Sundays is 7.6. The coastal flood warnings run until 3 on Sunday afternoon and the Los Angeles office has already written that they may be extended. Now the numbers 15 to 20 blocks of Newport Beach underwater on Friday. 1 ft deep at least 20 ft high. The BMS the swell broke through 20 in above prediction. The tide at Newport eight buildings red tagged in Long Beach. Two evacuations of seaside walk in 5 weeks 7.18 San Diego Friday night 1.66 66 ft too high, 14 in too high at San Francisco. 60 Rachel's wind Saturday morning 22 its speed 640 m from San Diego 51% chance of tropical storm wind at Ensanata 18 at San Diego. Two tropical storm watches for Southern California ever 7.3 to 7.6 6 the tides in the morning. 9:49 Sunday Long Beach 9:47 Sunday San Diego 145 Simon's wind 83% odds of a record El Nino 21 seconds between the waves 11.4 million of beach that will not be there until after. So three questions. If a swell from a storm 800 miles away put 20 blocks of Newport Beach underwater on Friday, what does the same storm do from a 100 miles on Sunday with the tide a foot and a half higher than any table printed? If the weather service has already written the word damaging for Long Beach and Malibu and the city has already emptied the houses on Seaside Walk, what exactly is the plan for the houses on 63rd Place and 67th and the block behind them? And if the ocean is a foot and a half too high at low tide on a calm Saturday morning with three or four more Kelvin waves on the way and a winter the government gives an 83% chance of being the strongest El Nino on record. What is the tide table even for? Because the three storms are not the story. The story is the foot and a half that was already there when they arrived. Marie broke the sea wall on a normal ocean. Polo topped Marie's tide on a higher one. Rachel flooded Newport Beach from 800 miles out on a higher one still and the ocean rose again on Friday night and it is rising on Saturday morning and the storm is 22 m an hour closer every hour on the Balboa Peninsula. The BMS are being rebuilt for the third time in 2 days. On Seaside Walk, the houses are empty and the red tags are on the doors. Off Point Loma, the long swell is coming in at 21 seconds. And at the border tonight, a storm that was supposed to be dead on Thursday makes landfall. Sunday 9:49, 7.6 ft still rising.On Friday morning in Newport Beach, the water came off the sand and into the streets of the Balboa Peninsula, mainly through the wedge, the gap at the end of the jetty that turns a south swell into a wall. By 9:00, the ocean was in the intersections along Balboa Boulevard, lapping at front doors on West Bay Avenue, standing at least a foot deep across 15 to 20 blocks with cars abandoned in it and paddle boarders going down the middle of residential streets.
Six city crews with heavy equipment rebuilt sand berms as fast as the tide took them down, and the tide took them down faster. The city opened its 86 tidal valves and ran its 18 pumps. Its utilities director, Mark Vukoyovic, said the morning tide had come in about 20 in above the prediction. It's significant. We've seen it be 12 in higher, but this is, you know, kind of record-breaking for us. City Councilman Joe Stapleton. This is the worst I've seen it in my 20 years on the peninsula. The city spokesperson, Georgia Rios, this swell was very unprecedented coming up that high. And then this is not even the worst that is expected.
By the afternoon, the city manager, Simone Jurgis, had declared a local emergency. And the mayor, Lauren Klyman, stood at a 6:00 news conference and said the city's priority is the safety of its residents and visitors. Ali Bickl did not get her front door shut before the water came through it. Patricia Abby, who owns a studio on the peninsula, saw the pictures online and assumed they were fake until she got stuck in the traffic and watched the water come in. Flynn Brown had it up to the doors of his car.
Super dangerous.
Jonathan W's whole street was underwater and what he had been told was that Sunday would be worse. In Long Beach, the waves came through the bulkhead on the Alamito's Peninsula on Friday morning and hit the homes on Seaside Walk. The burns the city had built after the last storm washed away in places. The boardwalk was torn apart. The debris floated offshore. The water washed around and under the waterfront houses. By Friday evening, the city had ordered the homes between 64th and 66th Place evacuated until at least noon on Tuesday. closed the streets from 62nd place to residents only and by its own count reported Friday night red tagged eight buildings across 13 addresses.
It is the second time in 5 weeks that those blocks have been emptied. Hurricane Marie swell did it in September. The city's spokesperson, Loth Martin, "We've had three storms back pretty much back to back to back, and it's hard to predict exactly what will happen, but just based on forecasts, we're preparing for more damage.
Down the coast, Lagona Beach had Coast Highway underwater at Broadway and Maine Beach under standing water. Sunset Beach had its streets flooded and Huntington Beach opened its emergency operations center. At Sanonre, the state closed the parking at Surf Beach after the shoreline was damaged.
At Capistrano Beach, where Marie demolished two homes and red tagged eight, the water rose toward the houses again. No injuries were reported anywhere on the coast. That was Friday. Rachel was 800 m out. Here is the timing that makes this worse than it looks. At 2:00 on Friday afternoon, the hurricane center weakened Rachel to 45 miles an hour and in the same advisory issued a tropical storm warning for the west coast of Baja California from San Jose de Las Palomas all the way north to the United States border. At 8 that night, it added a warning for the east coast of the peninsula from Isla San Louis to Puerto Pasco. At 11:00, the headline changed. Rachel strengthens slightly. 60 mph, 990 mibars, the lowest pressure of the day. And the forward speed, which had been 5 mph on Friday morning, was 12.
By 2:00 Saturday morning, it was 22. 640 mi southswest of San Diego, moving northeast at 22 mph with tropical storm force winds reaching 125 mi from the center. The forecaster, Gibbs, wrote that the center will approach and move ashore near the United States Mexico border tonight, that some additional strengthening is possible before landfall up to about 65 mph, and that the storm will weaken quickly over the mountains after it crosses. Tropical storm conditions are expected in northern Baja. They are possible in the watch area in California. The hurricane c center's own odds of tropical storm force winds 51% Yuma Arizona 22% San Diego 18% Tijuana 14%. And it's words for the coast. Life-threatening surf and rip currents and moderate to major coastal flooding worst tonight into Sunday morning when high waves coincide with already elevated tides. Already elevated. That is the whole story. And the hurricane center is not the only agency that has noticed. Now, the California clock at 3 minutes to 2 on Saturday morning, the Los Angeles forecast office issued a coastal flood warning for the Malibu coast and the Los Angeles County beaches in effect until 3:00 Sunday afternoon. Its words, "For vulnerable south-facing beaches, especially Long Beach and Malibu, damaging seawater flooding is likely. High tides of 7.3 to 7.6 6 feet will be common each morning. High surf of 5 to 8 ft. Stay off of beaches and coastal walkways, roads, and structures. Rock jetties can be deadly in such conditions. And one more line. This warning may be extended past Sunday. A separate warning covers Avalon on Catalina Island. 6 minutes later, the San Diego office issued its own for the Orange County and San Diego County coasts marked severe. Significant coastal flooding and erosion is likely through Sunday afternoon. Tides locally over 7 ft. Surf of 5 to 7 ft with sets to 9 ft and the greatest impacts on Sunday morning when Rachel's swell, the onshore wind, and the tide arrive together. Then a flood watch from 11:00 Saturday night to 8:00 Sunday evening, covering the San Diego County coast, valleys, mountains, and deserts, the San Bernardino and Riverside Mountains, and the Coachella Valley with rain rates of half an inch to 6/10 of an inch per hour on the coast, and up to an inch per hour in the mountains. Half an inch to an inch and a quarter of rain on the coast and in the valleys, 1 to 2 1/2 in the mountains. The San Diego River at Fashion Valley forecast to crest at 7.4 4 ft. On Sunday afternoon, gusts of 55 mph in the mountains and the desert, 60 on the ridges and passes. The Phoenix office has a wind advisory for the Imperial Valley and Southwest Arizona with gusts to 55 m an hour and a flood watch from 5 on Saturday afternoon. The hurricane center has 1 to 3 in across the southwest, 5 in locally, and the words significant flash and urban flooding. But here is the detail that tells the real story. The ocean was already breaking the coast before Rachel turned, and it is getting higher, not lower. Friday morning's high tide ran a foot and a/4 to a foot and a half above the tables at every gauge. Friday night's high tide, which is normally the smaller of the two, ran higher still. San Diego 7.18 ft against a prediction of 5.55, a foot and 2/3 too high. La Hoya a foot and a half too high. Los Angeles, which is the gauge for Long Beach, 6.68 against 5.2, a foot and a half. Santa Monica, Santa Barbara, the same. And at 3:00 on Saturday morning, at dead low tide, the water at San Diego was still a foot and 6/10 above where the table said it should be. The whole ocean is sitting higher. The Los Angeles Times put the same numbers in inches on Friday, 17 in above prediction at San Diego, 16 at Santa Monica, 14 at San Francisco. This is not a Southern California problem. It is the entire coast. Dylan Amaya, who studies this ocean at North Carolina State, said on Friday, "I do think the Kelvin wave has made it to San Diego and Los Angeles at this point." A Kelvin wave is a pulse of warm water that rides up the coast at about 6 m an hour. He puts about 6 in of the extra water on it and says three or four more are coming over the next months, one already off Mexico. Michael J. Cox of Noah Fisheries said, "It's not that this Kelvin wave is going to come and flood anything on its own. It does not have to." Shan Batusk, a research oceanographer at the United States Geological Survey, finished the 10:50 10 minutes, 50 seconds sentence. The loss of protected beaches also increases wave impacts and coastal flooding on property and infrastructure. The beaches are the part that is gone. Between 62nd and 69th place in Long Beach, the sand is so far down that the trucks cannot get onto it. The city's $230,000 emergency sandfill starts on Saturday. The 11.4 million dredge that would actually rebuild the beach starts the week of October 19th. Sunday's tide is before both. Out at the buoys on Saturday morning, the water off Point Loma is 74 to 75 degrees and the swell is arriving at 19 to 21 seconds between waves, the long slow period of energy sent from a long way off. The Climate Prediction Center put the odds of a record El Nino at 83% on Thursday. And the hurricane center's own discussion on Friday put the water off northern Baja at 6 to 7° C above normal, which is why a storm it had written off as a dying remnant on Thursday was strengthening on Friday night. So, here is the arithmetic, and it is ours, not the weather services. Sunday morning's predicted tide at San Diego is 6.48 48 ft at 947. Add the foot and a half to foot and 3/4 the ocean has been running all week and you are at 8 ft before any wind, before any surge, before the swell peaks. The Los Angeles offic's official number for Long Beach is 7.3 to 7.6 and its official word is damaging. Now, the rest of the map, because this is the weekend Mexico gets two storms. Hurricane Simon, which was 100 miles an hour on Friday, is a category 4 at 145 on Saturday morning, 125 mi south of Manzano. still quickly intensifying in the hurricane c center's words under a hurricane warning from Punta Santelmo past Puerto Vayarta to El Roito with 10 to 20 ines of rain forecast and 30 in spots. Preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion. It comes ashore later Saturday or early Sunday, the same night Rachel reaches the border. And on the other side of the continent, what is left of Hurricane Isaas is over Alabama as a remnant, still flooding the Gulf Coast with up to 15 ines of rain. Three storms, one night. In Baja California, the state has a preventive alert in force and temporary shelters open with Sunday as the peak. Heavy rain in Tijuana, Rosarito, Teate, Mexicali, Ensenada, and San Quintin. and gusts reported up to 140 km an hour, 87 mph. Rachel has been alive for 2 weeks. It closed schools in Kalisco and Los Cabos on its way north, wandered 900 miles out to sea, and is now finishing at the top of the peninsula. The only tropical storm ever to make landfall in California at that strength came ashore near San Pedro in September 1939 and killed 93 people. Hurricane Hillary in August of 2023 was the only other storm to earn this coast a tropical storm watch. It did about $900 million of damage. Rachel has already flooded Newport Beach, evacuated Long Beach, and closed Coast Highway in Lagona, and it is still $600 away. Now, the part that has to be said plainly. As of 2:00 Saturday morning, the United States side has a watch, not a warning. The odds of tropical storm force wind in San Diego are 18%. No rain had fallen in San Diego County. No one was hurt on Friday. The water went back out of Newport Beach by Friday afternoon, and the roads reopened. The marathon in Long Beach with more than 28,000 runners was still scheduled to start at half 5 on Sunday morning on Shoreline Drive, 4 and a half hours before the tide. And the hurricane cent's 8:00 advisory on Saturday morning is the one that can turn the watch into the first tropical storm warning for Southern California since Hillary. Saturday's morning high tide at 9:21 in San Diego and 9:24 in Long Beach is the first tide since the warnings went up and the city of Long Beach's own forecast for it is 7.4 ft. Sundays is 7.6. The coastal flood warnings run until 3 on Sunday afternoon and the Los Angeles office has already written that they may be extended. Now the numbers 15 to 20 blocks of Newport Beach underwater on Friday. 1 ft deep at least 20 ft high. The BMS the swell broke through 20 in above prediction. The tide at Newport eight buildings red tagged in Long Beach. Two evacuations of seaside walk in 5 weeks 7.18 San Diego Friday night 1.66 66 ft too high, 14 in too high at San Francisco. 60 Rachel's wind Saturday morning 22 its speed 640 m from San Diego 51% chance of tropical storm wind at Ensanata 18 at San Diego. Two tropical storm watches for Southern California ever 7.3 to 7.6 6 the tides in the morning. 9:49 Sunday Long Beach 9:47 Sunday San Diego 145 Simon's wind 83% odds of a record El Nino 21 seconds between the waves 11.4 million of beach that will not be there until after. So three questions. If a swell from a storm 800 miles away put 20 blocks of Newport Beach underwater on Friday, what does the same storm do from a 100 miles on Sunday with the tide a foot and a half higher than any table printed? If the weather service has already written the word damaging for Long Beach and Malibu and the city has already emptied the houses on Seaside Walk, what exactly is the plan for the houses on 63rd Place and 67th and the block behind them? And if the ocean is a foot and a half too high at low tide on a calm Saturday morning with three or four more Kelvin waves on the way and a winter the government gives an 83% chance of being the strongest El Nino on record. What is the tide table even for? Because the three storms are not the story. The story is the foot and a half that was already there when they arrived. Marie broke the sea wall on a normal ocean. Polo topped Marie's tide on a higher one. Rachel flooded Newport Beach from 800 miles out on a higher one still and the ocean rose again on Friday night and it is rising on Saturday morning and the storm is 22 m an hour closer every hour on the Balboa Peninsula. The BMS are being rebuilt for the third time in 2 days. On Seaside Walk, the houses are empty and the red tags are on the doors. Off Point Loma, the long swell is coming in at 21 seconds. And at the border tonight, a storm that was supposed to be dead on Thursday makes landfall. Sunday 9:49, 7.6 ft still rising.
