Re: It's a fucking sandbar

[Greensboro]

On 24 Mar 2023, Klaus Schadenfreude
<klaus.schadenfreude.löschen.@gmail.com> posted some
news:jeqr1i1nugk6ce9e8...@Schadenfreude.com:

> On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 10:33:09 -0700 (PDT), bigdog
><geowri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/photos-show-how-rising-sea-levels-are
>>-washing-away-a-small-seaside-town-in-north-carolina/ss-AA192pHL?ocid=m
>>sedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=7fe270ac4f1b4bb0b320fd8deb84f900&ei=31
>>
>>Anyone who builds homes or businesses on North Carolina's Outer Banks
>>and doesn't realize it's a precarious situation is a moron. The Outer
>>Banks are a sandbar between the ocean and the mainland. The soil is
>>very unstable sand. There is a huge sand dune at Kitty Hawk that the
>>Wright Brothers flew their gliders off of before they made their first
>>powered flight. That sand dune is now about 800 yards south of where
>>it was when Orville and Wilbur were making their experimental flights.
>>Grass was grown on the sand dune to help stabilize it so it will stay
>>put where the monuments have been erected.
>>
>>The houses along the Outer Banks are built on stilts because they are
>>only a few feet above sea level. About 20 years ago a hurricane ripped
>>a hole through the Outer Banks, severing the highway that runs the
>>length of them. If the government didn't subsidize the insurance
>>policies, no insurance company would risk issuing a policy and there
>>would be no development on the Outer Banks. If you choose to live or
>>work there and your home or business gets blown away, you have no one
>>to blame but yourself. Don't whine about rising sea levels. The sea
>>will rise or fall as it pleases and it doesn't give a shit if humans
>>like it or not.
>
>
> "The Outer Banks is open to the elements, and towns like Rodanthe
> often get damaged by storms."
>
> [COMMUNICATED.] RODANTHE, N. C., Aug. 22, '79. ED. ECONOMIST :
> As the people from this part of our county seldom, if ever, give you
> an Item of what is passing down here. I find it expedient, therefore,
> to say a little in regard to the storm we had on this part of the
> Coast, commencing on the night of the 17th ult., to wit. At or about 2
> o'clock, Sunday night, the wind began to blow, it blew harder and
> harder, and at breakfast tine it was blowing a perfect gale. It
> continued raging in this way until 2 or 3 o'clock, -Monday evening.
> The tide was half way across the Beach. Houses were destroyed. Large
> Oak trees blown down, fences blown down and washed away. Cattle and
> Hogs drowned. Skiffs, Boats and Canoes taken away by wind and tide,
> and things went out in that way until nearly everything went to
> destruction, it is a sad, sad, sight to see the fare of some the
> people down here. Since that time I've heard there was a vessel lying
> in Hatteras Inset, sunk. She was loaded with watermelons. Nice hog
> meat has been washing ashore all the way from Kennakeet to New Inlet
> supposed to be out of a vessel lost at Sea. It completely destroyed
> the corn and potatoes here. The crew of the vessel that was sunk in
> Hatteras Inlet, got to the shore safe and sound but have not as yet
> ascertained her name or where she was from. I will give you the full
> particulars in short. Very respectfully,
> B.
> -The Weekly Economist, Elizabeth City, NC 1879 08 26 Page 3
>
> Fuck 'em

Rube factor. If some slicker from New York City wants to buy and build
there - take the money!