Long Beach crews try to shield Alamitos Peninsula's beachfront homes
ABC7's coastal coverage shows an urgent protection effort, with excavators and bulldozers deployed along the shoreline.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 778,582 views a day, 22 times a normal first day on this channel (36,294).
Crew race to protect beachfront homes as high surf pounds Long Beach coastline
Excavators and bulldozers are part of Long Beach's effort to protect coastal homes as high surf keeps pounding the shoreline. ABC7's coverage centers on the Alamitos Peninsula, where crews are working to limit flooding while the threat continues.
The station's report, "Crew race to protect beachfront homes as high surf pounds Long Beach coastline," drew about 440,000 views in its first nine hours. That is already far beyond the audience a regular ABC7 video usually attracts over a full first day.
A companion report, "High surf continues to pound Long Beach coastline, homes," describes the heavy-equipment crews at work and also drew an unusually large early audience. The home-protection report attracted substantially more views, despite having been online for slightly less time.
ABC7 is also following the weather behind the coastal threat. Its separate Tropical Storm Rachel update forecasts rain moving into Southern California, alongside elevated surf and a heightened risk of coastal flooding.
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- Channel
- ABC7
- Subscribers
- 2,980,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 15,193,452
- Channel views, pace per day
- 4,767,412 (on a normal day: 1,763,802)
- Video published
- October 11, 2026
- Video views so far
- 443,377 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 778,582
The numbers
The beachfront protection report has already exceeded ABC7's usual full-day audience for regular videos. Its related surf and weather updates also drew unusually large early audiences.
