{"id":642595,"date":"2010-01-25T18:37:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T23:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a80d6658970b"},"modified":"2010-01-25T18:37:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T23:37:44","slug":"storm-erosion-steals-a-bit-of-newport-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/642595","title":{"rendered":"Storm erosion steals a bit of Newport Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s storms may have dumped <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-beach25-2010jan25,0,2550000.story\">massive mounds of muck<\/a> on Southland beaches, but in Newport Beach, those same storms swept something away: sand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe storms came in with a diagonal attack on the beach, with waves and high<br \/>\ntides,\u201d Newport Lifeguard Battalion Chief Mitch White told Brianna Bailey of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypilot.com\/articles\/2010\/01\/25\/publicsafety\/dpt-erosion012410.txt\">the Daily Pilot<\/a>. \u201cThat cuts<br \/>\naway the sand and creates a longshore current that comes up and sweeps the<br \/>\nbeach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About 50 feet of sand was lost. Work crews using front-end loaders moved about a dozen lifeguard towers farther up the beach to keep them from floating out to sea.<\/p>\n<p>But the sand didn&#8217;t go far. \u201cEvery winter, we lose an area of beach, but by the following<br \/>\nfall, it builds back up again,&quot; said Tara Finnigan, a spokeswoman for the city of<br \/>\nNewport Beach. &quot;That sand doesn\u2019t go too far off shore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Jill-Marie Jones in Orange County<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s storms may have dumped massive mounds of muck on Southland beaches, but in Newport Beach, those same storms swept something away: sand. \u201cThe storms came in with a diagonal attack on the beach, with waves and high tides,\u201d Newport Lifeguard Battalion Chief Mitch White told Brianna Bailey of the Daily Pilot. \u201cThat cuts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2942,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Har","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}