Rachel’s Surge Floods Newport Beach and Breaks Through Long Beach’s Peninsula Boardwalk as Coastal Flood Advisory Runs to Tuesday
Nature World News | 14.10.2026 08:58Swells and storm surge driven by Rachel flooded streets on Newport Beach's Balboa Peninsula and broke through a protective wooden bulkhead on the Long Beach Peninsula, damaging homes and tearing planks from the boardwalk, before the storm's remnants dissipated over the Southwest on Sunday. Rachel never made landfall in California — its center moved onshore over northern Baja California and crossed the U.S. deserts as a weakening post-tropical system — but the waves it pushed north still caused serious damage along the Orange County and Long Beach coast.
