Ocean myths

[shtferbrains]

You don't need a government funded study to know large parts of Florida are built on sand bars.
I find it hard to believe many of those places can buy insurance.

If there is a 100ft wide strip of sand sticking out into the ocean they sell it as oceanfront property and build huge houses. When a hurricane takes them out they get federal disaster funding.

[agstar77]

You don't need a government funded study to know large parts of Florida are built on sand bars.
I find it hard to believe many of those places can buy insurance.

If there is a 100ft wide strip of sand sticking out into the ocean they sell it as oceanfront property and build huge houses. When a hurricane takes them out they get federal disaster funding.

That is just as crazy as BC delta farming below sea level and not expecting something to go wrong and asking Feds to fix it.

[Guest]

That is just as crazy as BC delta farming below sea level and not expecting something to go wrong and asking Feds to fix it.

i agree 100%
and then blaming it on climate change

[sumdumguy]

Florida, New Orleans, Shreveport are right in the swamp. Not a chance in my world that they wouldn’t flood. Horrible city planning there.

[jazz]

Florida, New Orleans, Shreveport are right in the swamp. Not a chance in my world that they wouldn’t flood. Horrible city planning there.

All of the lower BC mainland, southern MB, interlake and the St. Lawrence corridor are all old glacial alluvial outflows. I count 20M people living in the way of climate change in this country.

I count another 3 million living in a Tsunami and subduction/liquefaction zone.

They dont seem too concerned. 500K more moving into those areas every year thanks to Trudeau.

If the experts are wrong, which they will be and we end up in a wetter not drier environment, you can watch those places get ravaged pretty badly.