Looking for an affordable ocean front lot?
Homes along the Pacific Coast are selling for as little as $500.

Cheap prices are due to rapid erosion of the area. About 65 feet per
year are reclaimed by the sea.
An entire town has so far been swallowed up.

Will our grandkids see this sort of thing repeated more frequently,
due to rising sea levels fostered by a change in climate (caused by
man or not)? Some would have us believe it likely.......


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...shaway14m.html

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:45:13 -0700, Chuck Gould penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

Looking for an affordable ocean front lot?
Homes along the Pacific Coast are selling for as little as $500.

Cheap prices are due to rapid erosion of the area. About 65 feet per
year are reclaimed by the sea.
An entire town has so far been swallowed up.

Will our grandkids see this sort of thing repeated more frequently,
due to rising sea levels fostered by a change in climate (caused by
man or not)? Some would have us believe it likely.......


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...shaway14m.html

We've lived with that for a long time, here. Some areas have silted
up, others have washed away. The most recent hurricanes to ravage this
area (Fran & Bertha) closed Corn Cake Inlet and the net result has not
been good for fauna or flora. Oh, well.....

I can't conceive of homes or even lots, for that matter, selling for
any less because of imminent destruction. Here, you couldn't touch
even a vacant lot on the beach for less than $1.3M.... even if it IS
in imminent danger (and many are). The millionaire's houses will wash
away and I'll unhappily subsidize the rebuilding out of my own pocket
through my insurance costs.

Those same people, well heeled enough to buy their own style of
justice, have gone to the state capital and are in the process of
getting the law changed so that condemned lands, just built back up by
dredging the inlet to The Cape Fear River, are now buildable again.
The houses and the land that they will sit on will be gone again in a
few years. Go figure.....

http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/B...L/H1154v1.html

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Gene Kearns wrote:
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:45:13 -0700, Chuck Gould penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

Looking for an affordable ocean front lot?
Homes along the Pacific Coast are selling for as little as $500.

Cheap prices are due to rapid erosion of the area. About 65 feet per
year are reclaimed by the sea.
An entire town has so far been swallowed up.

Will our grandkids see this sort of thing repeated more frequently,
due to rising sea levels fostered by a change in climate (caused by
man or not)? Some would have us believe it likely.......


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...shaway14m.html

We've lived with that for a long time, here. Some areas have silted
up, others have washed away. The most recent hurricanes to ravage this
area (Fran & Bertha) closed Corn Cake Inlet and the net result has not
been good for fauna or flora. Oh, well.....

I can't conceive of homes or even lots, for that matter, selling for
any less because of imminent destruction. Here, you couldn't touch
even a vacant lot on the beach for less than $1.3M.... even if it IS
in imminent danger (and many are). The millionaire's houses will wash
away and I'll unhappily subsidize the rebuilding out of my own pocket
through my insurance costs.

Those same people, well heeled enough to buy their own style of
justice, have gone to the state capital and are in the process of
getting the law changed so that condemned lands, just built back up by
dredging the inlet to The Cape Fear River, are now buildable again.
The houses and the land that they will sit on will be gone again in a
few years. Go figure.....

http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/B...L/H1154v1.html



Those with waterfront mcmansions should have to buy into a special
insurance pool if they want coverage (I don't mean the federal flood
insurance program) in which their rates are determined by losses the
past 20 years by other waterfront mcmansion property owners.

Between where we live and Deale, MD, there are stretches of high density
waterfront properties whose living rooms are about three feet higher
than the high water mark. At least once a year they have water in their
living rooms or worse. Many of them have insurance, and their losses are
covered by all of us through our premiums. Screw them.

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:45:13 -0700, Chuck Gould
wrote:

Looking for an affordable ocean front lot?
Homes along the Pacific Coast are selling for as little as $500.

Cheap prices are due to rapid erosion of the area. About 65 feet per
year are reclaimed by the sea.
An entire town has so far been swallowed up.

Will our grandkids see this sort of thing repeated more frequently,
due to rising sea levels fostered by a change in climate (caused by
man or not)? Some would have us believe it likely.......


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...shaway14m.html

It's a plot, Chuck. George is trying to get rid of all the libs out there,
house by house.

Do you realize that since the end of June we've been losing sunshine at the
rate of over two hours a day? Sounds like another Global Warming problem
caused by Bush.

Sounds more and more like nuclear energy is the way to go, but I hear no
Dems preaching it. Wonder why? Maybe it's because they'd rather we send the
money to Al.

"John H." wrote in message
...
snip...
Do you realize that since the end of June *we've been losing sunshine at
the
rate of over two hours a day*? Sounds like another Global Warming problem
caused by Bush.

snip...


Two hours a day..??? Are you experimenting with controlled substances
again?
At your rate it would be dark now about 188 hours a day.

Don White wrote:
"John H." wrote in message
...
snip...
Do you realize that since the end of June *we've been losing sunshine at
the
rate of over two hours a day*? Sounds like another Global Warming problem
caused by Bush.

snip...


Two hours a day..??? Are you experimenting with controlled substances
again?
At your rate it would be dark now about 188 hours a day.




Herring claimed to have taught math. Must have been to Army recruits.

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:30:04 -0400, HK wrote:

Don White wrote:
"John H." wrote in message
...
snip...
Do you realize that since the end of June *we've been losing sunshine at
the
rate of over two hours a day*? Sounds like another Global Warming problem
caused by Bush.

snip...


Two hours a day..??? Are you experimenting with controlled substances
again?
At your rate it would be dark now about 188 hours a day.




Herring claimed to have taught math. Must have been to Army recruits.

Thanks, Harry!

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:02:28 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:


"John H." wrote in message
.. .
snip...
Do you realize that since the end of June *we've been losing sunshine at
the
rate of over two hours a day*? Sounds like another Global Warming problem
caused by Bush.

snip...


Two hours a day..??? Are you experimenting with controlled substances
again?
At your rate it would be dark now about 188 hours a day.


Perhaps I mis-phrased myself, thanks for the heads up!

I should have said, 'compared to the end of June, we're losing over two
hours of sunshine a day'.

I'm glad you caught that. Thanks, Don!

"John H." wrote in message
...

Perhaps I mis-phrased myself, thanks for the heads up!

I should have said, 'compared to the end of June, we're losing over two
hours of sunshine a day'.

I'm glad you caught that. Thanks, Don!


My pleasure... John!