"Don White" wrote in message
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Just how high above sea level is the house?
With all this global warming and rising seas, my home province could
become an island.


I am not sure what the actual elevation is at the house, but I am quite
certain that a major hurricane could easily cause a storm surge that would
get to it. We just don't get storms that strong, that often here.

I doubt global warming will affect it in his lifetime.

Before we bought the house we are in, we looked at another one not far from
where my son bought his. In fact, you can see it from his back yard.
There's an area where, unlike his property, the houses are built on very
high, steep cliffs.

The one we looked at was high on this cliff, overlooking Cape Cod Bay. The
distance from the rear of the house to the cliff edge was about 60'.

I loved the place and was very interested in buying it. Then, someone
advised me about erosion of the cliff due to storms.
It was averaging something like 8 inches a year. I remember mentally
calculating what that meant, and was still interested until I found out the
rate of erosion was just that .... an average. Some years it didn't erode
at all. Some years it lost 20 feet.

That killed that purchase.

Eisboch