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IrelandHuntington Beach tides push past sandbags and onto Pacific Coast Highway
CBS LA's report shows flooded streets, residents preparing for another high tide and a planned closure between Anderson Street and Warner Avenue.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 206,002 views a day, 58 times a normal first day on this channel (3,570).
Flooding in Huntington Beach forces street closures
The sandbags around one Huntington Beach home did not stay put. A resident tells CBS LA that floodwater shifted the barrier as easily as pillows, leaving neighbors preparing for another high tide after water spilled onto streets and Pacific Coast Highway.
Reporting from Huntington Harbour, Tina Patel finds plastic tarps and sandbags laid out against the next surge. Footage from the previous morning shows people paddleboarding and riding motorized bikes through flooded neighborhoods. The station describes the tides as record-breaking.
For Sunset Beach resident Sherry Romero, the reach of the water is what stands out. "I've lived here 22 years and I've never seen it come this far," she says.
The report, "Flooding in Huntington Beach forces street closures," drew roughly 148,000 views in its first 13 hours, far beyond the station's usual start for a Short. Separate CBS LA reports about flooding at Huntington Beach homes and businesses and in Newport Beach also drew unusually large audiences for their respective formats.
Patel's report includes practical details alongside the flooded streets: free sandbag pickup locations at Edison Community Center, Warner Fire Station and the City Corporate Yard. A map marks a planned Pacific Coast Highway closure between Anderson Street and Warner Avenue, with Patel warning commuters to plan their routes before the next high tide.
A coastal city in Orange County, California, about 35 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.
More on Wikipedia ›The name used for several stretches of California State Route 1, a major highway running along most of California’s Pacific coastline.
More on Wikipedia ›A residential community in northwestern Huntington Beach, with five artificial islands and waterways used for boating.
More on Wikipedia ›A beachfront community within Huntington Beach, California, lying along Pacific Coast Highway between the ocean and Huntington Harbour. It is about 5.3 feet above sea level.
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- Channel
- CBS LA
- Subscribers
- 1,160,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 4,966,862
- Channel views, pace per day
- 416,963 (on a normal day: 636,101)
- Video published
- October 28, 2026
- Video views so far
- 147,744 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 206,002
The numbers
The street-closure report drew an unusually large early audience for a CBS LA Short. The station's other coastal flooding reports also attracted more views than usual.
