The California coast has taken a beating in recent weeks and months, with historically large surf, fueled by a hyperactive El Niño season, and heavy storms.
In some areas, coveted beachside homes are being threatened by the inundation of water, both from the sky and the ocean – like these two luxury living spaces, precariously perched atop a cliffside in Dana Point, which almost collapsed over the weekend.
Although it looks like these two homes are hanging on by just a thread, apparently, officials and residents are saying they’re safe. They’re not even red-tagged, a practice used when a house is deemed too dangerous to live in.
“The house is fine,” Dr. Lewis Bruggeman, one of the homes’ owners, told KCAL News . “It’s not threatened. It will not be red-tagged.”
Based on news reports and helicopter footage, the houses are just north of Dana Point Harbor. That’s where, in 1966, the Army Corps of Engineers constructed the breakwall and effectively destroyed one of the region’s most famed big- ish wave spots, Killer Dana.