This in itself isn't unusual because beaches up and down the California coast often wash their sands into the sea (to a greater or lesser degree) from the Oregon Border to Mexico depending upon just how bad the storms are that year.
What is unusual is because of rising ocean waters that between 4 to 10 feet of dirt above the beach is also gone along with ice plant which grows just above the beach on dry land which has been thrown often 50 feet to 100 feet onto the paved road along the coast along with any driftwood or rocks that they ocean could move.
So, seeing boulders too big for most individual humans to pick up have been thrown up onto trails and highways by these storms which is an indication of just how powerful they have been. I haven't heard yet of Houses being washed off of cliffs into the ocean this year but other things are happening instead like the Flooding of the San Lorenzo and Pajaro and Salinas and Carmel and Big Sur Rivers. It's really made a mess, especially the Salinas River flooding onto good farmlands from broken levees even though the levees breaking likely saved Highway 68 and Highway 1 from being completely flooded out at River Road and Highway 68 and between Reservation Road and Castroville regarding Highway 1.
So, people are still worried that the Monterey Peninsula will be cut off from land travel from ANY direction except by either Boats or ships or Planes or Helicopters from mostly Monterey Airport which is also a passenger Jet port as well.
But, the last time this happened was 1995 which cut off the whole Peninsula by flooding for about 3 to 4 days time. That also is the year I think when the Carmel River flooded the Crossroads Mall really bad and lifted the Highway 1 Bridge across the river and transported it about a mile or more to the ocean never to be seen again(which if you see how large the bridge was or it's replacement is would be a completely impossible thought that this could ever happen.
But, it did!
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