First came the crack. Then came the collapse. After weeks of hurricane-generated surf and elevated tides hammered Southern California, a section of coastal bluff near Pacific Coast Highway at El Morro, beside Crystal Cove State Park, broke away toward the ocean. Laguna Beach skimboarder Blair Conklin has documented the deteriorating coastline in dramatic footage. Check out the cliff collapsing video below. Days earlier, Conklin spotted a fracture running alarmingly close to the road. But now, he captured portions of the cliff collapsing onto the beach below. “I literally just watched part of the cliff fall,” Conklin explained in his footage. “We just watched a good portion of the cliff crumble… that region of the cliff is below the big crack that kind of leads up to PCH.” Conklin noted that the surging ocean was directly responsible for the destruction. “It’s peak high tide and waves are really getting up to the bottom of it.…