A luxurious Laguna Beach resort is transferring visitors off its first ground as pounding Pacific surf threatens Southern California, with coastal flooding and important seaside erosion forecast from Sunday through Thursday.

The Surf & Sand Resort is taking additional precautions as waves batter the beachfront property, with a lodge worker telling The California Post that no visitors will be positioned on the first ground because of the risk.

“We are putting no guests on the first floor,” the worker said, describing the transfer as an abundance of warning. The employee said the constructing itself had not been broken and had withstood main storms in the previous.

High tides crash against coastal accommodations and houses in Laguna Beach. Youtube/Skid Kids

High tides hit coastal houses and accommodations as Beach Road in Capistrano Beach prepares for King Tides. Youtube/ Skid Kids

But the resort’s precautions underscore a broader risk dealing with coastal communities across Southern California, where elevated tides and disappearing seashores are leaving houses, companies and public infrastructure more and more uncovered.

The Surf & Sand Resort is taking additional precautions as waves batter the beachfront property. Youtube/Skid Kids

The National Weather Service in Los Angeles warned that minor to reasonable coastal flooding is seemingly from Sunday through Thursday. Youtube/ Skid Kids

The National Weather Service in Los Angeles warned that minor to reasonable coastal flooding is seemingly from Sunday through Thursday, with excessive tides reaching 7.5 to 8 ft — as much as 1.5 ft above projections.

“HEADS UP!!!!” the company warned, including that reasonable to important seaside erosion was seemingly and that some areas could face upgraded warnings.

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California’s Office of Emergency Services said a Coastal Flood Advisory would stay in impact alongside the state’s coast from Oct. 25 through Oct. 29, with Coastal Flood Warnings issued for Orange and San Diego counties.

At Surf & Sand, a newly circulated Instagram video purporting to present a part of the resort’s oceanfront seawall collapsing has added to considerations about the pounding surf. The extent of any structural harm has not been independently confirmed.

Laguna Beach surfer and skimboarding champion Blair Conklin captured highly effective surf pounding the shoreline, where dwindling sand has left beachfront properties more uncovered.

“There’s a reason they call it Beach Road… you got the Surf and Sand is now the surf and boulder, and the Beach Road is now—it’s definitely a rocky road,” Conklin said.

Elevated tides and disappearing seashores are leaving houses, companies and public infrastructure more and more uncovered. Youtube/ Skid Kids

Conklin said offshore reefs that once helped break incoming waves were no longer offering the same safety.“Waves are not breaking on those reefs that used to protect our coast a little bit… they’re just passing the reefs because it’s deep enough and then doubling up and hitting all the structures on the inside—and there’s no sand buffer.”

The hazard extends properly beyond Laguna Beach.

🌊 A Coastal Flood Advisory is in impact alongside California’s coast from October 25 to October 29, with Coastal Flood Warnings issued for the coasts of San Diego and Orange counties. Elevated tides, amplified by the El Niño sample, could improve the impacts of flooding in… pic.twitter.com/b488KT5eJs— California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (@Cal_OES) October 24, 2026

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Crews are mounting a $4 million emergency operation to reinforce a fractured 360-foot bluff close to El Moro and Crystal Cove, utilizing heavy gear, rocks and sand-filled plastic luggage forward of the king tides.

In Capistrano Beach, several houses alongside Beach Road have reportedly suffered structural harm. Six or seven houses have been red-tagged as uninhabitable and are present process demolition.

The newest risk follows successive hurricane-generated swells related with Marie, Polo and Rachel, which have stripped sand from seashores, while an oceanic Kelvin wave is contributing to elevated water ranges.