Associated Press: Years of ferocious storms have threatened to gnaw away the western tip of a popular beachfront park two hours drive north of Los Angeles. Instead of building a 500-foot-long wooden defense next to the pier to tame the tide, the latest thinking is to flee.
In this photo from Thursday, May 24, 2012, a man walks in the parking lot at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. In San Francisco, officials are mulling a significant retreat on its western flank, where the Great Highway is under assault from the Pacific…

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