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Well, to find out the very latest that happened with Tropical Storm Rachel and the flooding and debris flows we've experienced in Southern California, we begin with Lucas Brady-Woods, LAist reporter who's been covering the weather.

Lucas is in Long Beach.

Lucas, thank you for joining us.

What are things looking like right now? I know we're approaching high tide in about half an hour or so.

Yeah, I'm here on the peninsula and, you know, floodwaters have receded.

There's no floods in the streets, but the waves are hammering the coast here and the boardwalk and the seawall.

And some of the waves are so strong, I can actually feel them from where I'm standing about 20 feet away from the edge.

You know, it's shaking the ground.

Have people come out just to watch this as a natural marvel?

Yes, there are people here right now with their phones up filming it.

There's a house that's right in front of me here that's basically falling into the ocean as we speak.

The waves are actually cracking into this person's home, and it's red-tagged, of course, but there's a bunch of people out here watching.

I'm so, so sad for the residents of those homes seeing those beautiful properties being destroyed by the waves.

What are we looking at for Long Beach trying to remediate it at this point? I know, you know, berms were being built, but there's not even much of the of the beach left to build a berm on.

It's true.

Where I'm standing, there is no beach at all left right now.

The water is running right up against the seawall.

And the city and authorities, as far as I can see, they are still working on burns.

They have heavy equipment that's moving sand a little bit down the coast as we speak.

And right here at the end of this road that I'm standing on, you know, I was seeing residents and officials bringing in sandbags and really trying to reinforce the boardwalk in any way they could.

So there are things being done.

But in this part where there's no beach, some of this is just going to happen.

There's not much to be done.

Well, and as we just heard, from the Long Beach administrator.

This is the third time in five weeks there's been a tropical storm that's led to this kind of damage from waves.

Well, to find out the very latest that happened with Tropical Storm Rachel and the flooding and debris flows we've experienced in Southern California, we begin with Lucas Brady-Woods, LAist reporter who's been covering the weather.

Lucas is in Long Beach.

Lucas, thank you for joining us.

What are things looking like right now? I know we're approaching high tide in about half an hour or so.

Yeah, I'm here on the peninsula and, you know, floodwaters have receded.

There's no floods in the streets, but the waves are hammering the coast here and the boardwalk and the seawall.

And some of the waves are so strong, I can actually feel them from where I'm standing about 20 feet away from the edge.

You know, it's shaking the ground.

Have people come out just to watch this as a natural marvel?

Yes, there are people here right now with their phones up filming it.

There's a house that's right in front of me here that's basically falling into the ocean as we speak.

The waves are actually cracking into this person's home, and it's red-tagged, of course, but there's a bunch of people out here watching.

I'm so, so sad for the residents of those homes seeing those beautiful properties being destroyed by the waves.

What are we looking at for Long Beach trying to remediate it at this point? I know, you know, berms were being built, but there's not even much of the of the beach left to build a berm on.

It's true.

Where I'm standing, there is no beach at all left right now.

The water is running right up against the seawall.

And the city and authorities, as far as I can see, they are still working on burns.

They have heavy equipment that's moving sand a little bit down the coast as we speak.

And right here at the end of this road that I'm standing on, you know, I was seeing residents and officials bringing in sandbags and really trying to reinforce the boardwalk in any way they could.

So there are things being done.

But in this part where there's no beach, some of this is just going to happen.

There's not much to be done.

Well, and as we just heard, from the Long Beach administrator.

This is the third time in five weeks there's been a tropical storm that's led to this kind of damage from waves.