A chunk of road in Paseo Del Mar which slid into the ocean Sunday in high rainfall is seen in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, November 21, 2011. The road had been eroding since June, and the road closed since September.
LOS ANGELES — Residents of a coastal neighborhood were worried Monday about safety and property values after a large chunk of a street and the coastal bluff it sat on crumbled into the ocean amid heavy rains on Sunday.
A section of Paseo Del Mar in the San Pedro area that for months had been creeping toward the ocean collapsed as a storm struck, L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said in a statement. In recent weeks the section had been moving at about 4 inches a day. Read more...
