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I have a "solution" to the "problem". Stop encroaching on public beaches with your private vacation investments. There's a house moving company that can lift your house and move it.
I worked with someone (not from around here) who bought a condo at Salisbury and told me, “I’ve always wanted to live at the beach.” My thought was, “In the winter? Are you crazy?”
My parents bought a cottage streetside in the area of the buildings where your reporter is standing. In the 60s, a lot of that beach in front of those houses was covered by sand dunes anchored by sea grass and other vegetation. I remember walking through those dunes and hearing and seeing crickets. One year, the homeowner next to us decided he wanted to see the ocean from his house, so he hired a bulldozer to come in and remove the dune, thus contributing to the erosion. During the Blizzard of ‘78, the ocean traveled right between the houses and dug a hole under my parents’ small cottage, causing the back end of the house to fall into the hole. The dune would have prevented that from happening, IMO. I’m guessing that nearby homeowners had their dunes removed during that era as well. I haven’t been in that area for some time, but from your video, I can see that the simple summer cottages I knew are now upscale year round homes. Those homeowners have a lot more to lose today. I learned to respect what the ocean could do in the winter. I’d treat living at the beach as strictly a summer time thing.
No tax dollars should be used to protect those homes... All those houses are built on a sand bar and the owners all knowingly took that risk out of vanity to have a beachfront home... Tax payer money should not be used to bail out these homeowners from the risk they knowingly took in puchasing these homes... 💥
@@KelliAnnWinkler they prob would,,, but they wouldn't get the 2 Million they actually think those places are worth,,,, LOL,,, i grew up in Mass...... Spoiled Crybabies. Can't move on, give that beach back to the people.
Coastal Beaches are the most unstable real estate in America, you can see that on geological maps over time. If they want to pay for it, carry on. But would be wrong to keep dumping tax dollars in front of their million dollar homes.
“We have deserts in America. We just don’t live in them, STUPID! MOVE!!!” Sam Kinison Respect the Earth . It’s not Uranus (which you are showing to the whole world)
In the UK they tried this also, what happened is it took all the sand into the sea but it remained just offshore and created a natural breakwater so it worked in a fashion. Down the east coast of England where I live there is very little help for most of the coast and people put out huge rocks just at the shore to try and do something to break the waves before they hit...
Socialism is a word that politicians, especially Republicans, love to use to deny help/benefits to the poor. Are you aware that many of them voted for and received PPP loan forgiveness for their businesses? Do you know that we have been bailing out big banks and wall street for years?
Add to (mitigatable) side-effects of beach "renourishment": Shark attacks via 1) direct access channels (esp to areas between "sandbars"), and 2) bait-fish populations created near recent dredging
Who could say that not listening the scientists that at least 30 years alerting about how the climate changes would affect ours llives would bring real consequences.
2, 4, 8 ton rock bags would help dissipate wave energy and lock up rock. 1,000,000+ Kyowa rock bags installed for: critical infrastructure, bridges, beaches, roadways, harbors, pipelines, offshore, levee defense, emergency repairs, and limited access locations.
The first building code----In Matthew 7, Jesus said everyone who hears his words and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. Then he went on to say everyone who hears his words and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand (Matthew 7:24-26).
Great one,, Yes,, Wise People Built Houses in stable soil, not sand. (and also Native Americans built their villages near rivers and streams,,, but not on the banks. Here in Mass they lived in the cover of Woods,,, but had access to the fishing and fresh water.
Build a wall, that's not made of sand? The fact is, without a wall, the homes will eventually be under water. Lots of communities in Antiquity, had the same problem, some of those cities, still exist in Greece and Italy today; Build a wall or move.
If they'd fight to stop the damming of creeks and rivers (the oxymoron "flood control") then this wouldn't happen. Where do they think natural sand comes from?