Why would anyone consider anchoring the sand with vegetation? That would just ruin the view. Now burn more money, lackey!
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2024
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Ready for dune 2
the only proper response to this story
Put my mansion on stilts? What do you think I am? Bl... Poor!?
So the natural dunes washed away and the answer was to replace sand with...sand.
Reminds me of the castle built in the swamp bit.
Here's another good one: The city of Long Beach, California spends close to that much every year to do the same thing to protect mansions built on a sand bar (the Long Beach Peninsula) that are about 50 feet from the water line on a good day. They just keep constantly moving sand from one end of the beach to the other end a couple miles away. That's city money. The article below has some details, but only refers to the city saving $100k to $300k a year by bringing the work in house. The figure I've heard is more like $500k a year. I imagine it's actually higher than that, even. They have dedicated big earth movers, a built facility to store and maintain them, employees dedicated to it, etc. Do the math. This is probably happening all over the country and all over the world.
https://www.presstelegram.com/2022/12/19/long-beach-moves-its-own-beach-sand-to-protect-peninsula/
Let me guess - the beachfront property owners have offshored their wealth and pay less tax than the neighbourhoods without such exorbitant demands?
Yeah well someday I might get rich, and then I'll want everyone else to pay for me!
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The upside is that this creates jobs. Yay economy!
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Hahaha fucking idiots. No one thought about this project from inception to completion. Plenty of coastal erosion projects around the world that DIDN'T fail and this implementation, if just one person gave a shit, could've been a success
I love this story. From people banding together and building a sand barrier on the beach to stop the ocean. To the idea that they MUST know sandbags exist but they never considered why people don't just skip the bags and dump sand, to not one person mentioning climate change or sea level increase even though that's clearly the problem, to the one guy saying "it's mother nature you just have to accept it". 5 stars, would deny climate change and fix the problem with sand piles again.
The best part is that their previous sand dune was removed by storms and high tides in 2022, so their solution was to build another sand dune, which took a year, and was immediately removed by storms and high tides.
You can't make this shit up.
When I first came here, this was all beach. Everyone said I was daft to build a house on a beach, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the ocean. So I built a second one. That sank into the ocean. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the ocean. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest house in all of the coast.
You just know they went for sand piles because they didn't want to ruin their beachfront with more stable constructions.
Just sell your property, like Ben Shapiro has advocated.
Problem solved.
I hear Aquaman might be interested
How to I read the article with an ad blocker?
The modern web is so user hostile.
Switch to uBlock Origin
Are you using the latest version of uBlock Origin and Firefox? It let's me see the article with that combo.
Works with me on mobile with Brave. Must be a closed source ad blocker issue
I read it with an adblocker myself
Ron Guilmette, whose tennis court was destroyed in previous storms along the beach, added that he now doesn’t know how much his property is worth or if he will stay in the area. He calls the situation on Salisbury Beach “catastrophic.” “I don’t know what the solution is,”
Oh no, not your tennis court. What a shame. What a darn tragic loss for our nobility. Oh why can't the climate adjust to save your beachfront home. How could the earth be so inconsiderate for our rich land owners.
To be fair a lot of these homes have been there for 50-100 years (some way older). Salisbury (and parts of Hampton just north) is relatively poor compared to much of the New England sea coast, but those look like pretty expensive homes. Just a road or 2 over is a lot lower income. lots of fishermen lived there traditionally. That part of the Atlantic coast was settled and built before the idea of public land was really well defined unlike parts of California and the west coast.
Incredible how quickly one's sympathy can evaporate, isn't it?
Just one sentence.
Ron Guilmette, whose tennis court was destroyed in previous storms along the beach, added that he now doesn’t know how much his property is worth or if he will stay in the area.
Not home - property implying one of many, and be owns his own private beach tennis court... But I mean I guess it could've been two words:
Ron, Billionaire
Won't somebody think of the property values??!??
I don't know why, but this made me laugh so hard. They thought they could keep the ocean at bay with a big pile of sand. Oh my sweet summer child.
I'm happy for the construction crew that got paid at least
They are waiting outside the town with more sand and their wallets open!
"Well sir ya see sand is a hot commodity these days, so my overhead is thru the roof. And I'm running short on guys... Yeah, double the price probably, not including t&m..."
They can always sell their houses to Aquaman.
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Did they just dump sand in a big pile? Sand dunes are pretty well-understood ecosystems that require something underneath to anchor to as well as plants on top to stabilize them.
But also, the ocean is going to continue to rise, so any effort is likely futile. Sorry about that dude's tennis court getting ruined
So what your saying is they should have put the tennis courts on top of the sand dunes to stabilize them.
No, you misread. They said you need something underneath the sand dunes to stabilize them. So they need to dump a bunch of sand on top of the guy's tennis court and that'll do the trick.
Does it come with Zendaya?
Good job ocean, we appreciate you and also hate those arrogant fucks
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