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CALIFORNIA – Tyree Johnson loved his apartment that overlooked the Pacific Ocean — until it started to crumble down a cliff into the sea.
For 15 years, he could enjoy sunsets over the water from his back porch in Pacifica, a few miles southwest of San Francisco.
Pods of dolphins swam by and hang gliders floated overhead. But all that splendor came with a risk: The bluffs were weakening and ocean was gnawing away below.
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“In that last year, it just started giving way,” he said. ”It wasn’t a gradual thing.”
When a loud noise startled him around4:30 in the morning, it was the ground giving out a fewdoors down. In April 2010,the authorities told him he needed to move before the…
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