Interesting, but those of us who have lived on the Cape for decades have seen these changes all the time. My family has been on the Cape since the 1700s/1800s and my late grandfather was a Nickerson who was a selectman in Orleans in the 1930s and 40s. Spent all my childhood summers on the Cape and moved here with my husband and children 30 years ago. Lived in Chatham for many years until we moved to Orleans. I'm totally devastated by the incredible damage done to Nauset Beach and the loss of our beloved Snack shack there what it was called before Liam's clam shack. And the removal of the Band shell. The dunes are gone and I remember watching that beach get narrower and narrower over the years due to rising sea levels. This is all due to Global Warming Climate change and two years ago there were icebergs on the outer beaches! I was told decades ago by my late mother who grew up on the Cape and graduated from Orleans High School in 1926 that one day the Cape would disappear so nothing new there. I also remember her telling me that once you could stand in the middle of the Cape and see the bay and the ocean at the same time because it lay barren from cutting down all the trees for homes and ship building until the late great FDR came in via his successful WPA Worker's Progress Administration and planted all the scrub pines we have on the Cape! Thanks for sharing about the ever changing Cape! Maybe people should remember what it says in the Bible...to not build upon the sand! The Cape like so many other places has been overdeveloped! Too many homes/buildings on this fragile narrow land on the Outer Cape and on our fragile wetlands like in Houston , New Orleans and southern FL!
I've got little sympathy for the waterfront owners. They have always operated under the assumption that the beaches were theirs and they did not like having the public using them. Too bad. THERE IS NO APPRECIABLE SEA LEVEL RISE. That is all global warming/climate change BS.
