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Sunday, October 28. 2012

Who insures these places?

Erosion from Sandy, Vero Beach FL



 Topsail Beach, NC, with sandbags:



These ugly places deserve to be washed away. More here

Posted by The Barrister at 13:51 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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They don't call it Sandy for nothing.
#1 chuck on 2012-10-28 13:56 (Reply)
I know! I know!

The answer is "The Federal Taxpayers EVERYWHERE in the USA."

Blame it on LBJ. He got the Federal Flood Insurance passed as part of the Great Society that incidentally resulted in a boom in beach front property values in Texas....and every where there's a beach in the US.

Over the years, the Feds have tightened up on the building codes for covered property improvements like have an open car port under the house to keep surge waters out of the main living space, stuff like that.

My dad with a beach front condo on a Gulf Coast beach says "Thanks Wisconsin, thanks Iowa!"
#2 Whitehall on 2012-10-28 14:10 (Reply)
Dauphin Island in Mobile Bay gets knocked down every couple of years, I think they have a hard time getting insurance and it limits development.
#3 bill on 2012-10-28 16:36 (Reply)
Even better, these same states will go to the Feds and ask for millions of dollars for new sand to pour on the beach -- which will get washed away in the next big storm.
#4 Whooosh on 2012-10-28 20:05 (Reply)
Better yet, the Corps of Engineers will come in and pump new sand on the beach.
#5 grant1863 on 2012-10-28 20:48 (Reply)
Of course, in a few days we may be saying the same thing about Manhattan and the people around Long Island Sound. How do we stop it when it is the wealthy city folks who want their waterfront home? And more prudent taxpayers to share the cost.

Long ago, before the internet, I read a story about a spit of sand I believe in the NE. Well, along came the city folks to buy and build their homes on this land. All the while laughing at the local rubes who hadn't taken advantage of such prime real estate. Building instead up on the bluff inshore of the "sound". Of course, the old timers knew that that bit of land hadn't reached out across the sea only 5 years before and was apt to be breached by the next passing hurricane.

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Ah, but little did the locals know, the city folk had powerful friends in Washington who could share the risk while they enjoyed the reward.
#6 JKB on 2012-10-28 20:54 (Reply)
The same goes for the homes perched atop mountain peaks in the Rockies (or other such heights). One bad winter for the ice slides or floods to trash the site.
#7 jma on 2012-10-29 11:19 (Reply)
Growing up in NW Florida, before federal flood insurance, it was common knowledge that the only people who build anything at the beach (a long barrier island about 3 feet about high tide) were fools and/or damned Yankees.

Now who's laughing?
#8 whitehall on 2012-10-29 12:16 (Reply)
Wow. You disgust me. While I agree that it is foolish and irresponsible to build on the shoreline, especially in areas prone to hurricane activity, saying that someone's home deserves to be washed away is a horrible thing. I hope you never have a natural disaster happen that threatens your home or your livelihood. You should be ashamed.
#9 Disgusted on 2012-10-30 01:42 (Reply)

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