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Flooding in Newport Beach
WiscKau
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Are our coins safe?
Newport Beach has experienced repeated coastal flooding in October 2026 due to unusually high tides—reaching up to 8.3–8.5 feet—combined with high surf, El Niño conditions, and storm impacts, especially on the Balboa Peninsula. Streets, homes, and businesses have flooded multiple times, prompting sand berm construction, sandbag distribution, and local emergency declarations.
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I think they'll probably be ok.
chopmarkedtradedollars.com
I'd be more concerned about the currency submissions though sea air is not friendly to coins.
The people at PCGS wear floaties and ride jet skies to work. That’s the rumor I heard.
Practice makes perfect & nobody is perfect. So, practice being nobody and be perfect !
PCGS is located in Santa Ana. They have a PO Box in Newport Beach.
This is the stuff my parents in Ohio send me, lol.
"Are you evacuated from the wildfire?"
Look it up and its 200 miles away.
Gotta love em❤️
The community has let their beach wash away over years if not decades allowing for this situation to happen. Have family friends who used to enjoy a great view of half a mile of beach in front of their house when it's now straight waterfront.
Seems like a few people feel this is a funny question. It's not ok!
I believe PCGS still has a coin grading operation in Newport Beach.
And I believe if a pray to the CAC Mascot I'll get a gold sticker.
Doesn't make it so.
I visited Crystal Cove State Park a couple days after the flooding during low tide. At the entrance the park ranger warned us that it was not the same. Once you walked down to the beach it was no longer recognizable. Sand was washed up over usual rock formations and tide pools. All the cool things to see were now buried by sand. We had a nice time but it was now like all the other beaches in that area.
Very adult comment. NOT!
Wow. Such a proud group here.
It's not like they allowed it, it's what happens when building jettys and breakwaters and such along the coast disturbs the natural renewal of beaches.
With a weak premise and ridiculous question, what direction were you anticipating this thread would go?
You already got the answer above. They are nowhere near the flooding.
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Have you considered a sacrifice?
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It is ok because with even the most cursory examination you'd find that PCGS' headquarters are 10 miles inland. And nowhere near any flooding.
Your belief is incorrect. Once again, an easily discovered fact.
You turned some gentle ribbing into a pearl-clutching hissy fit because you couldn't check your premise properly. Unfortunate.
chopmarkedtradedollars.com
They appear to be only 2 inches from the coast!!!
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I'm really having a difficult time not making a crude/bawdy joke here.
chopmarkedtradedollars.com
It's farther than that but as you can clearly see, it's a straight shot from the beach down the 55.
Or up the 55, as you prefer.
I wouldn't recommend it. 😇
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Uphill or downhill?
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The map's flat, isn't it?
Floods, fires, droughts, earthquakes.... pick one! Just get the coins out. 😂 😉
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 ) "Formerly OAKSTAR with 8,777 posts"
To my knowledge and recollection visiting while young in the 90s they were all there. My point is this was a predictable eventuality that the city did not properly prepare for and residents are paying for it.
I believe there are a lot of examples in Florida where the beach is regularly dredged as one solution.
Your coins get the free shipwreck effect.
** I believe there are a lot of examples in Florida where the beach is regularly dredged as one solution.**
Yes, at least on the Atlantic side, after major hurricanes they hire the army corps of engineers and/or private contractors to perform “beach renourishment and dune restoration “, dredging up sand from a half mile off the coast and dumping it back onshore. Expensive and certainly not permanent, but it prevents the erosion from proceeding further, provides nesting sites for the numerous sea turtles, and you can find some cool shells from offshore afterwards.
This is what I really enjoy about this site.
It has a lot of serious Adults.
NOT!!!
...says the OP after behaving like a petulant child.
chopmarkedtradedollars.com
Sadly true. Yet I hold out hope there is maturity buried deep,_ deep_ within him.
He is either being a sarcastic troll, or is the grumpiest old man, which makes me a little sad. Not that serious @WiscKau
What about the people ?
The main element behind the disappearance of our beach sand is the construction that has been carried out over decades inland of the ocean. The blocking off of canyon heads and natural waterways that carry mountain runoff to the shore that naturally repleneshes the sand is the leading cause. Too much concrete and asphalt.