Posted on 01/04/2021 1:29:25 AM PST by nickcarraway
hat does a local pizza restaurant and Christmas trees have in common?
They’re both working to fight erosion.
This is the 3rd year in a row Chicho’s Pizza in Virginia Beach is collecting trees from community members in order to protect beaches in the Outer Banks.
“We started off the first year, we thought we were going to get 100 trees it was kind of just a little fun thing to do. We wound up getting a thousand trees. Then last year really blew up the community really liked it and we wound up getting 2500 trees last year,” said Chicho’s Pizza co-owner, Matt Potter.
Potter says their goal this year is 3,000 trees.
Last year the parking lot at Chicho’s Pizza was overflowing with old Christmas trees, so this year they’ve got different locations for different times and days.
“Last year we had 16 trailers we took down there. We had everything from a 12-foot trailer to a 30-foot flatbed we take them down there and we work with the Better Beaches of OBX program,” said Potter.
When strong storms hit the Outer Banks, it can cause serious erosion. Our Christmas tree loss is the beach’s gain.
“We take the trees and line them up along the sand fence that’s already currently there and over time the sand will blow up over the Christmas trees creating a more natural dune,” explained Potter.
As if donating the tree for a good cause isn’t enough — you also get a coupon for a $7.99 large pizza.
If you’re interested in volunteering please email mpotter@chichospizza.com.
Trees can be dropped off at 2500 Tournament Drive on:
January 3, 11 a.m.- 2 p.m. January 9, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. January 10, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. January 9 ONLY between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., drop off at Chicho’s locations at 29th Street, Strawbridge, Shore Drive, Greenbrier, and Hickory.
Nice story.
It won’t help. Virginia Beach & Hampton Roads are subsiding (sinking).
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-finds-va-metro-area-is-sinking-unevenly/
Somebody once before cited it to me as an example of inundation due to global warming and I had to get the facts.
One nice blow can cut a barrier island in half making a new inlet. A few christmas trees is not going to stop it.
Happy thoughts count I guess......
Time to hijack this thread a little. ;-)
When one of my global warming friends tried to tell me global warming is causing sea levels to rise in certain locations, like 6 islands in the pacific or fort Lauderdale or Virginia Beach... but not everywhere I ask them this: Can you make water in your bathtub higher in certain spots?
Of course you can’t. If ocean levels are rising, and indeed they have been since the end of the last ice age, then they will rise everywhere.
Gravity variances, tides, prevailing winds and similar have different effects. Subsidence is also real and can be measured.
The digging of the Suez Canal was delayed for decades because a bad survey under Napoleon said the Red Sea was 8.5 meters higher than the Mediterranean.
The outer banks are beautiful, but the earth is what it is. I lived on the Oregon coast for a while and people tried to save their beautiful beach houses by hauling giant boulders in...they try this idiocy in Malibu, also. The ocean is a force of nature and will do as it does and has always done. Man can be a silly creature.
And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand.
Matthew 7:26
Water always wins (more or less) - Dr. Who from a few seasons ago.
Christmas trees to fight erosion in the Outer Banks
Is that really going to work!?
Or is this just another leftist boondoggle. You want to fight beach erosion? Just turn the place into a municipal dump. I wonder if those tin decorations will turn into Beach Hazards. Another leftist “seemed like a good idea at the time” solution.
This has been done for decades in Louisiana. Sometimes it helps; sometimes not. It keeps trees out of landfills, and “raises awareness”. The trees must be stripped of all ornaments and not flocked. They don’t do any harm out in the marsh, but are not a miracle solution either.
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