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Laguna’s Surf & Sand Hotel Seawall Collapses in Super El Niño Swell (Video)
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Laguna’s Surf & Sand Hotel Seawall Collapses in Super El Niño Swell (Video)

Surfer·Dashel Pierson·about 16 hours ago
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Southern California is taking a beating. The combination of a Super El Niño, and a Kelvin wave raising sea levels, is creating a perfect recipe for coastal erosion chaos. And at Laguna Beach’s iconic Surf & Sand resort, the Pacific isn’t just the view anymore. It’s coming for the walls. A newly circulated Instagram video , captioned “surf and sand seawall collapses,” purports to show a portion of the oceanfront barrier giving way. In separate footage , Laguna Beach surfer and skimboarding champion Blair Conklin documents powerful waves hammering the famed hotel. Check out the footage of the wall collapse below. View this post on Instagram The luxury property is known for its rooms overlooking the water and Splashes, its restaurant perched practically above the surf. The hotel advertises “uninterrupted Pacific views” and dining “to the sound of waves below.” Those waves have become considerably less soothing.…

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