First came the crack. Then the cliff started crumbling. Now comes the $4 million.

At El Morro, crews have pulled a massive plastic sheet over the damage like a Band-Aid on California’s battered coastline. New footage shows Caltrans workers covering the fractured bluff beneath Pacific Coast Highway at Crystal Cove State Park.

Check out the latest video below.

Earlier videos captured chunks of earth tumbling toward the ocean as hurricane-generated surf chewed away at the slope’s base.

“This is a major development,” Laguna Beach skimboarder and surfer Conklin says in the footage. “They’ve got a lot of tarping to do. They’re going to have to tarp the whole hillside to help avoid a major slide with all the rain.”

But the plastic is just the beginning.

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