Fact of the matter is that coastal erosion happens. Always has and always will.
But the Federal Government just can't wait to destroy another community for no purpose whatsoever. It's almost as if they wanted to be destructive.
This is another obvious failure for owebama.
He promised to stop the rise of the seas during his immaculation, did he not?
You want to know more about Chincoteague read some Margaret Henry stories.
owebama wouldn’t know because she’s an American.
Choosing to add this to ‘Breaking News’ must have been a mistake. Will be removed shortly. Thanks.
“Some of those changes would involve closing the beach and its parking lot, then opening a beach with parking farther away and shuttling tourists.”
Close the main attraction,,and force tourists to go to a crappy alternative on a shuttle bus? There was a time in this country when the answer to such treachery towards a communities livelihood was well known, fast, and violent.
People feeling like they are not in control of the government, and that the law and courts are impossible for them to prevail in, is exceedingly dangerous. And those barrier islands are very lonely places,,, just sayin’.
Kinda seems that way. Since all these roads lead to Agenda 21 policy that every federal agency has adopted and are implementing its no surprise when the results are the destruction of the American economy.
The UN high official (Maurice Strong) at the Rio Earth Summit in ‘92 is on record stating that it “...isn’t our responsibility to bring about the collapse of the industralised countries”. That's because WE consume too much and are the major contribitor to global warming errr climate change. Yes, its destructive because its designed to be.
Sea levels rose 400 feet in the last 12,000 years and guess what? The islands and beach are still there! They just move around a bit.
I think Fish and Wildlife would love to see the entire island taken over by their controlled number of each species of wildlife.
Thirty years ago, Assateague had dunes - and paved parking lots behind them. Now there is flat sand with the road and parking lots made out of oyster shell.
More often than not when we go down to Ocracoke each July the best fishing areas (at the inlets) are closed off due to nesting birds and/or sea turtles ...and the protected zone shifts from day to day at the whim of the birds and the NPS.
I didn’t grow up on Chincoteague, but my husband’s family ALL did. The beach washes away frequently due to storms. This year WAS disastrous, as we visualized both in June and our later visit in October. It was the worst wash-through in decades, I think. Something has to be done, and dunes have been added before, but they are blown away, as well as washed away by storms. We’d hate to see the beach closed, as it WOULD change the economy on the island tremendously, but there are no easy solutions this time, and lots of money (hundreds of thousands) is spent yearly on protecting the beach, even in seasons in which the storms are not so bad. It will be hard decisions to be made, I know.
One thing I have hated to see, though, is that all trees that die are left to go into disrepair, making the floor of the nature park a disgusting to see mess of downed trees, branches, etc. If a fire broke out, and it is dangerously dry there most of the time, I fear that deer, ponies, and any animal that cannot fly would be trapped in the debris of the fallen trees and die. It would be an obstacle course to them when they are the most frantic to escape! This makes me so angry! Not only is it UGLY, but dangerous to the natural inhabitants of the park! What kind of nonsense allows this?
I guess the Regime doesn’t want anyone to enjoy an island for vacation except for the elitist at the Vineyard. I love Chincoteague. It is one of our favorite places to go. I hope the locals have enough balls to stand up to these a$$holes.
Well, you learn something every day. There’s a place called Chincoteague, and they have an erosion problem...wild ponies too.
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“And if cars didn’t occupy the 8.5-acre parking lot, piping plovers, an endangered shorebird the refuge protects, would nest there.”
They’re too chicken shit to just come to the point that in their minds we’re over populated and should open the camps and fire up the ovens.
Today, Chincoteague.
Tomorrow, Cape Cod, The Keys,
Virginia Beach.
Maybe they should do what Galveston Texas has done. They pump sand from the Gulf floor onto the beach because beaches do erode.
After the 1900 hurricane they raised the level of Galveston Island and built a seawall to protect it. It is a fabulous story if you have never heard it or seen the old photos.
They jacked up the remaining houses and pumped the sand underneath them. They raised the island 10 or 12 feet, can’t remember exactly, but it was an amazing feat.
It is a “madness of crowds” in that so many still are caught in the discredited fraud of global warming and it’s accompanying fraudulent claim of sea-level rises. As someone born at the Jersey shore and and having lived there for years, sandy-footed, it’s clear that barrier islands and beaches are ever-changing. In some decades the beach grows, in others it is eroded. Near-shore currents are transient.
A large storm or series of storms can completely rewrite the map.
Coastal subsidence....the Eastern Shore is prone to this coastal phenomenon.
The Outer Banks of NC is under the federal gun as well....piping plovers, etc for permanent beach closure.
The feds are out of control.......