The National Weather Service is warning low-laying coastal areas in Orange County that flooding to beachfront home and businesses could occur with Saturday morning’s high-tide conditions.

The advisory will stay in effect until 11 a.m. Saturday. Specifically, the NWS named areas such as La Jolla and Cardiff in San Diego County, and Seal Beach and Sunset Beach here in OC.

Seal Beach is in its final day of building up a berm wall – a big wall of about 30,000 cubic yards of sand – to protect  the homes south of the pier.

“At this point, we haven’t had any unusual circumstances,” said Vince Mastrosimone, public works director for the city. “It’s precautionary. We have these types of tides every year.”

Sand for homeowners is available at the city’s Fire Department on Central and 8th street, he said.

Surf is expected to be about 3-to-5 foot in height Saturday, bringing a bit of power to the waves that crash onto the sand.  

In Newport Beach north of the Newport Pier, a small wall of sand had been built up earlier this week near an opening to the concrete parking lot to avoid flooding.

The high tide will be 6.7 at 9:25 a.m.

If you are headed to the beach to beat the heat (check out Sciencedude’s article on the weather conditions), be warned that the high tides in the morning may swamp out some beaches with water covering up areas where sunbathers would normally be sitting on the sand.  

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