To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I know for a fact that Rockaway Beach is exactly where it was 60 years ago, but it wasnt 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, its 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.Yep - lived around beaches for a bunch of years - waves erode and trucks replenish...
28 posted on
10/25/2014 3:36:47 AM PDT by
trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
To: trebb
In the case of Rockaway Beach, barges pumped a slurry of sand and water from the ocean onto the beach, the water running back into the ocean, the sand remaining.
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