Texas' Beaches Are Disappearing, Leaving a Wake of Worthless Waterfront Houses 

Exactly.

Yep - building a house right on the coast, literally, is pretty foolish - for multiple reasons.

River borders between states cause fun confusion. One day your in one state and the next your in another.

Absolutely

Words of wisdom.

Or the side of a mountain.

Why not try eastern Colorado, western Kansas . . . lots of open space, not overrun by metropolis. Heard of ol' SAC silos being repurposed, as homes . . . on Kansas ! 😎🇺🇸

I think some guy said it.

@@paulsuprono7225 - Yup but a beach house sounds more fun.

Tell that to all the investigators, buyers, and renters who built a 58 story apartment/condo building on landfill in San Francisco. The building is now tilting 22 inches in an area known for earthquakes! 🤷🏾‍♂️ Somebody needs to explain the difference between greed and prosperity beginning in kindergarten. There’s no need for projects like this.

RU-vid novelist.

@@petemitchell6788 So?

@@springerworks002 so., there you go !

@@petemitchell6788 why even say that? What's the point? Are you cool and edgy? This individual is telling a story, if you don't care just move on.

Pete Mitchell ...Who never had time for a wife And he's talkin' with Davy who's still in the navy And probably will be for life...

Destroying a beach or a river bank by bulldozing its natural protection of tall grass with their 3-feet deep roots, is a disaster waiting to happen.

cost of ocean living often supported by taxpayers. Insanity.

Yes, but it’s the taxpayers who foot the bill for these follies. In many locations federal flood insurance is not required for existing homes. Consequently when some “poor” fool loses their $2M beachfront vacation home, the federal government steps in and provides relief.

Daniel von Bose - Actually it’s the cost of living on a very specific type of beach. The majority of beachfront properties are actually built on fairly stable coastlines. Furthermore, the truth is that in my lifetime there have been MANY more houses destroyed by floods, earthquakes, wildfires, and tornados than by beach erosion. It’s not even a competition. In fact, even if you were to only include houses destroyed by fires caused by homeowner negligence this would still far outweigh the number of houses destroyed by beach erosion. We do not live in a static universe. Everything is in a constant state of flux and this means of course that nothing is permanent. Still, the huge majority of houses built - even beachfront properties - are going to survive well beyond the average person’s life span.

@@SLOBeachboy If the floor of the beach house is not at least 30 feet above mean sea level there is risk of flooding by storm surge.

You mean, stupid and greedy people are responsible for this?

100% right

Expecting our sympathy is their third mistake

I lived in Surfside for many years originally the area was called Velasco. Noone took out beach grass . There weren't mangroves in this area I lived in Surfside when Ike hit. The fact that there are paved roads allowed the backswell to gain momentum and suck the land back into the gulf. The land is still there and could be put back.

No offense, but this looks like a really ugly place to spend any time at anyway

Where in CA?

Probably near Laguna beach or Dana point lol

beach replenishment - sure - buy a condo in Atlantis. Build 100 foot high levees in New Orleans, the rich have played you - do they even have private insurance? or are you subsidizing? Keep people broke and stupid long enough - and you get this garbage.....70 years on OBX and still, they got people believing in Alice

Insurance? No they expect taxpayers to foot the bill. FEMA hands out money like candy.

Insurance companies will find a not to cover that.

@@ronaldsmith2343 There are worse things I am mandated at gunpoint to subsidize. The economy benefits having a high value residential and light commercial coast, but strict zoning and building codes are crucial.

@@lookingbehind6335 "FEMA hands out money like candy." They loan it out. FEMA doesn't provide money to directly homeowners to rebuild. They provide loans which must be repaid.

I completely agree! It sucks to lose your home, but building any structure this close to the sea is crazy

I thought it was climate change?

@@martinmerrill5366 it is.

State Farm is there?

@@-Subtle- that's right, just ask chicken little.

Robert Beck what do you mean by that

What is man made will always be destroyed by Mother Nature😳😳😳😳

They definitely do here in galveston, they were just putting crushed concrete

Bandaid in the face of accelerating sea level rise

@ Mad Mike : You can't tell them anything- it's better to whine then use their heads!

I saw video about a piece of land used to be part of the US but the river it was adjacent to, had changed it's shape so that eventually it ended up on the Mexico side.

Few believe those structures are permanent. If the owner can get a few decades of use, most will have found the expense worthwhile.

Love my house out there. It doesn't flood like that all the time only when there's a hurricane. Mine is 11' 6" off the ground.

@@decypheryt3159 do you have non subsidized private insurance?

@@ronaldsmith2343 yes.

@@decypheryt3159 thx - on the obx the richest can't get private, they don't care, they get paid

@@ronaldsmith2343 no problem. No, wife and I have had to work hard for it for over 3-4 years. Trucking.

Correct. Taxpayer welfare paid to people who wish to in eroding shorelines.

anything for that stolen tax money, anything!!

Galveston raised itself after the worst hurricane in America history and has been fine ever since.

The sad part is municipalities allow it. It's all supported by the Real Estate, and construction industry.

@@Janotes they all do even the insurance companies that know they're gonna have to pay to fix them, it's 🤪

Damn bruh you like 80

BOI

So how is it that Galveston hasn't washed away, again in your lifetime, Explain it!

Too simple. Americans like it complicated.

Pissing in the wind to the tune of about 12 million dollars each time you do it. They have been doing it all over the gulf coast for a long time. Absolutely stupid! Just don’t let people buy the property. Use for swimming enjoyment and nothing else 🤔

your plan is to fight millions of years of nature by throwing huge piles of cash at a problem, forever? wow

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I was actually talking about our St. Kilda seashore here in Melbourne which is our version similar to the Venice beach in California (or wherever the beach in the video is from). Our beach is a bay beach 6 and half kilometers long and almost straight. It's a haven for walkers, cyclists, roller bladers and runners. But, sometimes sand gets dragged in deep by very large waves from aggressive, windy storm. If left in a state of disrepair it will then gouge all the sand and then waves will lap against a retaining wall, gets above it and onto the grass, footpaths and road. The sand doesn't completely disappear on the beach, but is dragged into the deep to forms in-water sandbanks. What they do here is to suck sand from those banks with a jet pump and spread it back on the beach as in 'reclaiming' our sand from Nature. If you have noticed that there have been times when the sea seems to be shallow and think that it must be low tide. No, that may be low tide but low tide/high tide doesn't stay the same. You will find that the sudden shallow sea by the beach is due to sand dragged into the sea as you also see that the beach is narrower, usually after a bad, windy storm where waves are higher and aggressively gouging the beach. The gouged sand then piles up in the water away from the beach and forms large lumps of sand called sand-banks. Since this is St. Kilda, we want to keep it the same as has been, even though mother Nature loves to play tricks on us, we will still defend our city, like ants defend their castle. We are lucky that we are by the bay and storms don't get any bad than this, but try our oceanic 150 kilometers long beach in East Victoria (our State), in Gippsland, called Ninety Mile Beach. The waves are massive on stormy or windy days, the ocean sea is real gouger in that area compared to other surfing places. Problem is, the surf is excellent but the entire beach area is plagued with mosquitoes, indestructible sand flies (you swat them with all you might and they will still fly off) and bush leech and ticks. And if you try to swim or surf, sharks are abundant, not to mention biting sea lice and stinking jellyfish. That's why it is always deserted, the pesky blood sucking Draculas are by the shore watching and smelling you a mile away. 5 minutes on this beach and it's clear, you have an army around you, ready to suck you dry.

Yup FEMA raised the flood plains during Obama’s term

@@mainegreengrower4209 the guy i knew in Freeport over in turtle cove got a bill lasr year for 12000 bucks for flood insurance. Thats 12 thousand bucks. I dunno, that's highly insane. I cant imagine what it would be at ocean front.

As it should be!!! They get totaled by hurricanes and tropical storm over and over again. Knew of one house that got hit three times in one season back in the seventies. Why should folks in smarter places subsidize these folks who just won't learn. Some use slumlord tactics of building with cheapest crap over and over so they profit off the insurance. Ten grand claim so they put six grand back and wait for the next storm for another ten grand claim!!!

I was thinking the same thing

Fisherman looking for a home base to launch out of

It's better than Detroit!!!!! 🤣✌

@@johnboydTx that’s not saying much !

@@johnboydTx 😃😂🤦

Absolutely! Economic and political pressure nearly always overrode common sense environmental decisions for decades. Builders gonna build. Endangered homeowners gonna demand shoreline remediation AT PUBLIC EXPENSE.

I'm an avid fisherman and am thinking of retiring and I'm looking at the Brownsville area. Can you tell me anything about the area and what the fishing is like. I grew up fishing in grande isle Louisiana and am currently out in California. Any help would be appreciated.thank you

Thanks! Yeah it's been crazy to watch it erode over the past few years.

Yes, you are correct. It's limited education when it comes to seaweed. Yes, it looks bad and yes it smells BUT it's a NATURAL occurrence. When the so called " sea science" type people clean all that up for " tourists" they are messing with natural nature. Just like pulling sand and shell off shore to " refill" the beach or stop homes and businesses from washing away when they should not be there in the first place!

right, people never will learn, leave mother nature alone. let her do what she does.

Seaweed is still routinely scraped off of the beach depending on the time of the year and the severity. It is stacked along the dune line where it helps to build new dunes.

Here in South Padre Island they dump old Christmas trees in front of the sand dunes to become new dunes and keep the sand from washing away .

Yep!...Just like grass keeps your lawn soil in place to some extent.

Thank you. How these houses were even approved to be built is beyond me. 200 ft? When the beaches are eroding 5ft per year not even counting storm erosion? Yeah anyone with half a brain would tell you that’s a bad investment.

well, the opposite could happen too, you end up a mile from the beach

Okay? And that’s a problem? I’d rather have that than waves knocking on my door. Would you agree? Erosion is by far a much worse problem than accretion. I don’t hear people complain that they have too much beach.

😂😂

So you mean the whole earth ?

@@babymoon5282 I live in Colorado, the UV light from the sun, wind and hail storms do there number on my place. There is no place that is without the effects of nature trying to reclaim itself. Im originally from Washington state, rain, rot and blackberrys tried reclaiming our property.

Ha Thanks JD! Me too, me too

Crazy part is that many of these will go unrented, because they're so expensive now.

This is good info! I wonder if they've changed their stance as all these houses get eaten.

Nah, they should be allowed to build, as long as they assume rhe liabilities.

How about people who build in flood plains !

Ah yes, but some land speculator bought that sweet property and needed to cash in on it.

Hmmm... Then I guess no one should should be allowed to build houses in the hills of California due to wild fires.

@@rafaucett given their water/draught crisis wildfire situation it is kinda questionable lol ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hkbebOhnCjA.html It used to be a rather harsh place to live until water was established.. I mean stolen.

I stayed at those A frames in 1980....and the water was maybe 40 yards away even then.

@Tip Toe wow you’re a real sad person to make such a comment. Go crawl back to your miserable hole.

I would love to know what their insurance situation is. I wonder if any of them are getting grandfathered FEMA rates. Apparently the city stopped granting repair permits I think after Ike for houses that were wet at high tide.

@@ScottDaileyRU-vid what other local Houston channels are there like yours? I'm looking for more stuff like this.

@@ethanwild3301 I recommend checking out xplore RC, Quad Scenery (formerly Dale Quest), also Preservation Houston launched one.

they used to be real cheap until out of staters came there and bought them all up and jacked the price 5 times higher....now it's out of control. Some woman from California, a lawyer, bought a bunch of em and then sued the state over the Open Texas Beaches Act, so she could have her own private beach. It cost the taxpayers millions. I don't know if she won or not....but she royally pissed off a lot of people who were used to using any beach they wanted to since the dawn of time. She was real arrogant, and still lives in Callifornia.

@@ScottDaileyRU-vid you asked: We live in Crystal Beach, TX. We bought our house 3 years ago. We live on the Bayside of highway 87 a 1/2 mile from the beach. The ground is 6' above sea level and our house is 11'6" above the ground. 1440 sqft house. Our insurance is: Flood, wind storm & home owners: $6k a year. Flood deductible: $10k deductible Wind storm: $2,670 deductible Homeowners: $1770 deductible

Boi shut with ur hippi shet mother nature just dosent care lol

If they would have turned the jettys parallel to shores and out a mile then the jetties would have stopped the currents instead of running them from shore into the sea!!!!

@@b.csplatbriancross7062 would have cost a LOT more and the design they had they knew would do exactly what it did. That's why they outsourced the work to the army corp of engineers, nobody could be held accountable and it wouldn't fall back on the states to reimburse homeowners

Back in early 70s the coastal dune system comprised of 18-33’ high dunes backed up the beaches from Sabine, south to Port Arkansas…. As O&G offshore activity boomed, petrochemical plants multiplied, and container vessels were hatching….. the various ports along the coast needed dredging and hardening w/ jetties. And with more ship traffic , more dredging. And longer and longer and longer jetties. Initially the jetties acted as sand traps, capturing migrating sand down the coast, starving replenishment of dune system. As the sand traps filled, sand bars filled the jetty channels.. so jetties were extended into deeper water…. Now currents along shore were stronger … able to transport sand into sand bars, in deeper water… never to return to shore. Big example was the transform over time of Quintana Beach … a prime surf spot… consistent waves … surf able. But within decade of extending the surf side jetty, the wave sets vanished, the dunes vanished, the beach vanished to become a mud flat .. at high tide and low… The story repeated up and down the coast… Dunes remain south of Corpus..wide beaches.. but for another 10-20 years ?? .

Roll over pass was also a big culprit in the drastic besch erosion over in bolivar and crystal beach.

BW; Don't complain to us when the mountain falls down on you! :) cheers.

Exactly

Man must learn to RESPECT Almighty God's earth. Stop trying to change the natural flow of the oceans, rivers etc. Your supposed to build far back off a lake or ocean so that you won't interrupt the natural flow of things. But here comes man and he wants to do it his way--- AND THIS IS WHAT OFTEN HAPPENS! Show me a place where it floods-- and I will show you where man has built a dam or some other structure that has somehow caused the problem!!!!!!!

Or being turned into concrete.

The sand is moving, from all the dredging countries do to make islands chyna , Dubai so on

Its called sediment migration. Sea level has not changed. Geologist speaking.

@@user-vy7mi3xb7b Work for an oil company I bet. Tell the folks on Tuvalu that sea level rise isn’t real. Or for that matter the folks in Boston that see Morrisey Blvd regularly end up underwater when it used to be high and dry during storms.

@@rabidsamfan right on! Same here and I loved geology long before working in O&G. If sea level rise was real we would have to adjust all of the offshore well measurements because our datum (Sea Level @ 0') would be incorrect one day to the next. I've never heard nor found evidence to change the Sea level datum. Another reason relative (aka local) water levels van change is due to crustal isostacy, plate tectonics concept of cratonic buoyancy. The sheer scale of these concepts nullifies the global Sea level change argument. And out of respect for God's creation we need to understand that it is actually IMPOSSIBLE to change the global temperature by our own 20year "innovations". Not only is it the least scientific notion ever but it is alarmingly arrogant to the point of making massive corporations and billionaires ultra rich at the expense of sending the plebians (now modern day surfs) back in time to the dark ages standard of thinking, aka illiteracy.

I remember that well. Lots of new construction there since then too but it looks to be much better built. We'll see if it's strong enough for the next one.

Thank the local municipalities for allowing this building. They cant get enough of tax dollars. And sadly people are foolish to think there wont be issues at some point.

Can they? Yes. The reason is beach erosion. Barrier islands are on constantly shifting sand

Agreed !! All the chemical,. Paint. Will poison ,,already (in trouble). Our waterways...

I love the dark

"And face it with a grin, Smiler's never lose And frowners, never win"

Nice, where are you finding this?

@@ScottDaileyRU-vid Scott, I tried to add a reply with a link but it does not seem to have taken. If you go to brri . com and search for Thunder Point under vacation rentals, you will find it. It had photos of this home more in its prime, and the reviews I mentioned. BRRI is the company on the sign on the house.

Hahahahahahahaha. I would laugh in there face. Hahahahahahahaha

They are rentals ..mostly.

Imagine working hard for 5-10 years to buy a house there only to see it get wiped out. Then see a sniveling little child making ridiculous comments on a video about your loss. A child who has no idea what it took to buy a house there. Instead of crying about what others have/had make something of yourself and buy something that some sniveling little child can be jealous of and make ridiculous comments about or continue to be the sniveling little child with nothing.

@@decypheryt3159 why you crying?

@@decypheryt3159 and you're expecting our sympathy too

Water disappearing=global warming, flooding=global warming. I also appreciate that this narrator didn't push the global warming BS.