Ritzy LA enclave faces new crisis as coast slips quicker into ocean

Fuente: New York Post

The ground is slipping out from under one of Los Angeles’ ritziest coastal enclaves, with million-dollar real estate creeping toward the Pacific — as a potentially soaking winter could accelerate the destruction. Portuguese Bend in Rancho Palos Verdes is now shifting more than an inch a week, a fresh uptick that has officials eyeing the battered coastline as another round of heavy rain looms. The latest acceleration follows a mid-October pounding from tropical storm-fueled waves that chewed away at the Southern California coast.