My suggestion is to sell them to Ben Shapiro
Does it come with Zendaya?
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.
Why are they all confounded? Pretty sure they all have insurance that will cover everything. Wealthy people with beach houses have money. Money can solve any problem.
Rich people are rich because they’re misers who hate losing money for any reaosn,and insurance companies are nothing if not profit-driven and have a million ways to weasel out. So we all enjoy the shadenfreude. Whoever loses in this case, we win.
Flood insurance is getting rather difficult to find in Florida.
ok but this is a news story about an event in Massachusetts
You know any rich person that likes to spend more than necessary of their money?
I don’t think you understand how insirance works.
Insurance will say they will cover everything, except these very specific things which you can apply to most scenarios.
“Sorry, that’s just wear and tear on your property”
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…”
I have no sympathy for anyone that builds close to water. It will ALWAYS win. I will never understand people who don’t take these things into account when buying a safe place to sleep.
They saw Netherlands and said “Fuck it, we can do it better!”, then promptly failed.
Dutch dunes also formed naturally over centuries before the Dutch decided to make artificial ones.
Exactly! Dutch dunes are mostly natural: beach sand is blown onto the land and started to pile up, eventually forming dunes. Even in the places where there are buildings facing the sea, they are at least 100(‘s) meters away from the coastline.
The man-made dikes are much more than just a pile of sand. To quote wikipedia:
Artificial levees require substantial engineering. Their surface must be protected from erosion, so they are planted with vegetation such as Bermuda grass in order to bind the earth together. On the land side of high levees, a low terrace of earth known as a banquette is usually added as another anti-erosion measure. On the river side, erosion from strong waves or currents presents an even greater threat to the integrity of the levee. The effects of erosion are countered by planting suitable vegetation or installing stones, boulders, weighted matting, or concrete revetments. Separate ditches or drainage tiles are constructed to ensure that the foundation does not become waterlogged.
I absolutely love being near (or on, or in) bodies of water. But I figured out that I would never want to live near one before I hit my teens.
Better yet, put Ben Shapiro in the dune. His gish galloping repugnance should hold back the ocean no problem. If not, well…
Very happy. Most of these homes are owned by some rich people anyway.
How to I read the article with an ad blocker?
The modern web is so user hostile.
Switch to uBlock Origin
I read it with an adblocker myself
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
Put my mansion on stilts? What do you think I am? Bl… Poor!?
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.
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.
Won’t somebody think of the property values??!??
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.
I mean I guess it could’ve been two words; Ron, Billionaire
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.
They literally have children songs about not building houses too close to the beach
I’m blanking on this. What’s the song?
Wise Man Built His House Upon the Rock Song by VeggieTales
Religious children’s song
Wow, I had no idea VeggieTales covered that song! I didn’t think it was even very well known outside Mormonism.
Why would anyone consider anchoring the sand with vegetation? That would just ruin the view. Now burn more money, lackey!
Just sell your property, like Ben Shapiro has advocated.
Problem solved.
I hear Aquaman might be interested
Good job ocean, we appreciate you and also hate those arrogant fucks
They can always sell their houses to Aquaman.
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