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Huge waves batter California coast: Man dead, another missing, section of pier collapses Nathan Solis, Clara Harter, Salvador Hernandez December 23, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Massive waves hit California coast, leaving at least 1 person dead and 2 missing Gabe Hauari, Amaris Encinas and Roseann Cattani, USA TODAY NETWORK Updated December 24, 2024 at 9:29 AM
Offshore storms shoved waves toward communities along the California coast, bringing flooding, road closures and fright to nearly 20 people who were briefly swept away on a Ventura beach on Thursday.
Huge waves to hit California coast for third day, bringing flooding and life-threatening conditions Elizabeth Wolfe and Robert Shackelford, CNN December 30, 2023 at 5:54 PM
Point Conception Light is a lighthouse in Santa Barbara County, California, on Point Conception at the west entrance of the Santa Barbara Channel, California. [4] [5] [6] One of the earliest California lighthouses, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places on the Gaviota Coast.
September 25, 1939 – A tropical storm known as El Cordonazo, or The Lash of St. Francis, made landfall near Long Beach with sustained winds of 50 mph (85 km/h), which as of 2025 is the most recent tropical storm landfall in California. The storm killed 45 people across southern California, and another 48 people at sea, with residents caught ...
The UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab, located on the Sierra Nevada mountain range at 6,894 feet, measured 33.9 inches of snow from this storm. At one point during the storm, the lab measured ...
A. ^ Ballast Point Light was moved in 1960 to the bell tower which had served as a fog signal building as the 1890 tower had been declared unsafe. The light shone from the top of the bell tower until 1961 when it was replaced by an offshore light.