Asphalt is broken up near the Newport Pier, where recent storms, high surf and high tides have eroded the beach. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Jill Thomson pulls her daughter, Avery, 5, up at a spot where the slope eroded near the Wedge, a famous bodysurfing site in Newport Beach. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
A woman is reflected at low tide as she runs under the Newport Pier. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
A pedestrian leaps backward as a wave crashes on the rocks along Strand Way in Oceanside. Last week’s storm-driven waves eroded the wide beach south of the pier and hurled stones, sand and water toward seaside residences. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
An Oceanside maintenance tractor dumps rocks around playground equipment in an emergency effort to save it from further damage by the encroaching surf. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Polly Fukuhara and her dog watch the surf from a stairway above the eroded beach along Strand Way in Oceanside. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
A volleyball player snatches a wayward ball just before it sails off the eroded half of a court at Main Beach in Laguna Beach. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
