Exclusive | Long Beach homeowners heartbroken as Tropical Storm Rachel annihilates houses

Long Beach residents have been left devastated after powerful waves from Tropical Storm Rachel battered their multimillion-dollar beachfront homes, destroying properties, forcing families to evacuate and ripping apart a century-old boardwalk as yet another storm slammed Southern California.The destruction unfolded along the city’s Alamitos Peninsula, where massive waves tore through wooden sections of the historic waterfront boardwalk, sending seawater rushing into homes and streets.At least eight buildings representing 13 addresses were red-tagged as unsafe to enter, while another was yellow-tagged, allowing residents limited access to retrieve their belongings, according to Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson.The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now.

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Never miss a story For some residents, the storm has meant watching their dream homes get swallowed by the ocean.Natalie Cabrera, 59, who has lived on the peninsula for just a year and a half, and rents a beachfront bungalow said she was devastated after the storm caused water damage to her home’s foundation.“I don’t want to leave.

At all.Ever.

This was my dream,” Cabrera said.Cabrera described how the relentless waves battered her property, sending water underneath the building and damaging everything inside.“The floor is squishy.Because the ocean just kept hitting and hitting my home, and the water went underneath,” she said.“Water didn’t come through my front door.

It came up from the ground.” Cabrera said neighbors who had lived in the area for decades had never witnessed anything like it.“My other neighbor’s been here 30 years, and never, ever have they seen this.So I’m a newbie to the neighborhood.

And I’m just devastated to have to leave,” she said.Cabrera said she was going to move to Ontario, where her...