Posted on 10/24/2014 6:47:33 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
"Where the Boys Are" is both an entertaining 1960 movie as well as a catchy Connie Francis song which was the theme tune of the film. However, it now appears that "Where the Boys Are" is performing a great unintended public service. The opening credits of the movie has preserved for us an aerial view just where the ocean of 1960 was in relation to the sand and State Road A1A in Fort Lauderdale. Guess what? The beach is exactly as wide now as it was in 1960.
On Friday morning Brian Craig, co-host of the Steve Kane Show, the longest running radio program in South Florida mentioned that just by watching "Where the Boys Are" you can see the beach is just as wide now as 54 years ago. Your humble correspondent decided to verify this assertion and found this title credits aerial view of Fort Lauderdale Beach. Yup! The current ocean level is just about where it was when George Hamilton and Yvette Mimieux were working on their tans at the beach back then.
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Watch the old 70s film with Charleton Heston, “The Planet of the Apes” and look at the high water marks on the rocks surrounding Lake Powell. The enviros love to point these things out these days as bad news. Funny that they were there in the 70s.
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“Watch the old 70s film with Charleton Heston, The Planet of the Apes and look at the high water marks on the rocks surrounding Lake Powell”
Yeah, but did you see NYC?
LOL! Yeah. Forgot about that scene.
It was after Ebola hit!
Well, yeah. But only because global warming is making the seabed sink.
/sarc
I know for a fact that Rockaway Beach is exactly where it was 60 years ago, but it wasn’t 55 years ago, after Hurricane Donna. I remember water under the boardwalk for months afterwards. They just pumped water from the ocean back onto the beach.
It is hard make any judgment one way or the other about sea level based on one locality. Land rises and subsumes. Louisiana is sinking, and it has nothing to do with rising oceans, it’s due to sinking land.
Modern satellite geodesy probably gives us our first really reliable measurements of sea level, and yes it is rising, but no more quickly than at the beginning of the 20th Century.
Connie Francis.
Of course the beach is the same size as it was. So’s my beach on long island. But they never ask me
Fort Lauderdale “Replenishes” its beaches every few years by pumping in sand from offshore.
Probably not the best example to use.
“Where the Boys Are” is a guilty pleasure.
Its the perfect example. Nature is CONSTANTLY changing. (I’m guessing they do the same on the beaches in CA).
And the sand that was pumped in from offshore came from where? I suspect the exact same amount pumped in from offshore came from onshore previously.
Finally! A source of climate dara we can trust!
I spent MANY days at that fabulous beach!! Especially on Spring Break in mid-60s!!! The Elbo Room!!
My backyard ends where salt water begins... water’s been in the same place for 30 years - higher with hurricanes and high tides but other than that... just the same.
Pumping the sand back is due to erosion, NOT rising sea level. If it was due to rising sea level, the sand would be piled over A1A.
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