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.

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.

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 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.

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

They can always sell their houses to Aquaman.

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/

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.

Just sell your property, like Ben Shapiro has advocated.

Problem solved.

Better yet, put Ben Shapiro in the dune. His gish galloping repugnance should hold back the ocean no problem. If not, well...

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.

Good job ocean, we appreciate you and also hate those arrogant fucks

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

How to I read the article with an ad blocker?

The modern web is so user hostile.

Does it come with Zendaya?

Why would anyone consider anchoring the sand with vegetation? That would just ruin the view. Now burn more money, lackey!

Put my mansion on stilts? What do you think I am? Bl... Poor!?