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Post by Captj on Jun 4, 2024 17:39:43 GMT -5
If they want the government to use our tax money to improve the beach then we the taxpayers should be able to enjoy it.
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Post by Captj on Jun 4, 2024 17:42:09 GMT -5
If they want the government to use our tax money to improve the beach then we the taxpayers should be able to enjoy it. Here's hint, the dredge holes off Miami Beach hold some Mackerel and Kings during the winter. Besides wrecking the surrounding reefs that's one good thing that came of sand pumping.
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Post by johngalt on Jun 4, 2024 18:22:52 GMT -5
I have always laughed at the term “Beach erosion” and “Beach Renourishment”! Any 12 year old knows that wind and water move’s sand around. But somehow developers and homeowners can’t seem to comprehend that?🤔
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Post by swampdog on Jun 4, 2024 20:21:35 GMT -5
People and governments just aren’t very smart. The tides ebb and flow and the sand comes and goes. As mentioned above, storms are doing what they’ve done for thousands of years. If no one lived on the beach, there wouldn’t be near the problems mankind faces today. We scream sea level rise just because we built where a smart person wouldn’t. This has been repeated all over the world.
If and when, the big one comes up Tampa Bay, the final costs will probably bankrupt all of us, just with insurance rate increases. Yet our government will step in and probably reestablish the gulf front properties and help everyone rebuild so we can do this again at some point in the future.
As Scarecrow said, “If I only had a brain.”
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Post by restlessnative on Jun 4, 2024 22:11:59 GMT -5
I quit reading when the author wrote they had a view of the ocean. I can assure you no one in Redington Shores, or anywhere in Pinellas County, has a view of an ocean. Pet peeve I guess, but it annoys me when people call the Gulf an ocean. Didn’t see a source so I can’t make fun of whomever wrote it or their fact checking department.
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Post by gogittum on Jun 5, 2024 10:22:52 GMT -5
A continent away, but I lived "on" Malibu Beach from 1965 - 1970. In those 5 years, every winter the sand would disappear and we'd have a boulder beach. Next spring the sand would be back and we'd have a beach for the summer.
During winter storms, the house would shake when heavy surf hit the seawall and the dried/crusted salt would be a bitch to clean off the windows. 2nd story windows.
Those 5 years were among the happiest of my life. Too bad you can never go back.
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Post by swampdog on Jun 5, 2024 18:19:59 GMT -5
True that gittum. I remember that old saying - “you can never go home again”.
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Post by TRTerror on Jun 5, 2024 19:01:23 GMT -5
Off Track a bit here but... My Childhood home is now a parking lot for a Jewish school and Tennis Courts. Freakin Jews...first my childhood home then Gaza. What's next Haiti ?
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Post by tonyroma on Jun 5, 2024 22:41:54 GMT -5
Some of this shit is pure comedy gold!!!
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