![]() ![]() As ocean levels surged, so too did the water in Soquel Creek, which runs through the city before emptying out into the Pacific Ocean. Homes along the banks of the creek were flooded, as pieces of decking and unmoored kayaks floated downstream.Ĭapitola City Manager Jamie Goldstein said it’s common for creek levels to reach 6 feet when the tide is high, but said Thursday’s watermark easily exceeded 10 feet, which is beyond the channel’s capacity. “It’s bad - hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage,” said Josh Whitby, co-owner of the Capitola Village restaurant Zelda’s. Whitby had boarded over the waterfront windows before the storm but giant ocean swells pushed debris through the front wall and a window, filling the interior with several inches of seawater. Ryan said the city had already deployed building assessors that are going door to door in the village to better understand the extent of damage, but had no cost estimate at this time. She said that as of Thursday afternoon, no major injuries of Capitola residents had been reported. “The village is going to be closed for a while,” Ryan said. Powerful storm waves roll into Seacliff State Beach on Thursday between the Cement Ship and the heavily damaged pier. (Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel)īut the Capitola Wharf was not the only one along the county’s coastline that buckled under the weight of the storm surge. Large portions of the Seacliff Pier in Aptos and its iconic Cement Ship collapsed into the sea under the relentless assault of the massive waves. As of Thursday afternoon, only a small tip of the SS Palo Alto could be seen poking above the water’s chaotic surface. ![]() The more than 100-year-old ship was severely damaged during a previous storm system in 2017 after its stern was torn off, causing it to shift and keel to the side.Ĭonditions in North County were similarly precarious. ![]() The Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf was evacuated and closed Thursday morning after waves had begun crashing onto its deck, according to a post on the Santa Cruz City Government Facebook page. It will remain closed for the day and will be reevaluated Friday. Boone White leaps from his car with no injury after a large tree fell on it while he was driving on the transition from southbound Highway 17 to northbound Highway 1 on Thursday. ![]()
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