Posted on 12/23/2019 8:22:17 AM PST by Olog-hai
If the sea levels are rising, it stands to reason that they are rising all over the world. It is quite possible that the NJ shoreline could be sinking. That happens. Or it could be as others have speculated that “someone” wants beachfront property.
“remove people and property from the danger of future floods”
If that type of thinking ever comes to Texas or Louisiana there will be millions of people bought out to include lots of industry.
Houston floods every year around Memorial Day.
It has nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with politicians lining their pockets with a real-estate scam.
Oh, so it's a flood plain, but you've got to put in drip lines for saplings? And they're landscaping it?
Only a government employee could see that and not grasp the pure idiocy. It's the east coast. There is no shortage of rain. Leave it alone, precious "native" trees, shrubs and grass will pop up just like magic. But that wouldn't employ any overly compensated rent-seekers now would it?
Climate change enters the Eminent Domain sideshow. I had an aunt with a 36 room summer boarding house in Ocean City, NO.
We got to spend summers there for free because we helped clean the bottom floor rooms of sand and muck after hurricanes and tidal surges. Great summers of free range childhood. Nasty work when flooded. That was 50 years ago. You build stuff at inches better than sea level and it gets salty wet and sand-filled.
Buyouts of flood-prone properties have become a reality in numerous coastal states, as well as inland. New York, Texas, Louisiana, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota and others have programs. …AP is taking this way out of context by connecting it to “climate change”, though.
Probably The Greatest Fraud Ever and his man/wife. Didn’t they recently buy a 30 acres estate in Cape Hatteras?
People really fall for stuff like this? I would tell them to go to hale and leave my property alone.
And how much you want to bet, that these empty lots will eventually be taken over by the city for a condo development or retail stores or whatever politicians steal people's land for?
Talk about jumping the shark.
I know Middlesex County quite well and never remember any “floods”. I’m sure I missed something along the way but surely a significant flood would have attracted my attention...
I do not remember Woodbridge as a major focus of flooding during great storms in New Jersey, since the 1970s.
Why it is chosen for this land buying program, when, if it is a real concern, I would think other places would be more likey and or sooner “victims” and therefor places where this program would be working before it was applied to Woodbridge. As much as I can remember most flooding in Woodbridge has been due to rain soaked river flooding, not coastal and not related at all to “sea level rise”.
Betting your home that the climate change naggers are right is just crazy.
If anyone here figures out a way for us FReepers to cash in on their climate cult delusions, please share. I wouldn’t mind buying some oceanfront property on the cheap. I definitely wouldn’t live in NJ or any other solid blue state, but for rental purposes, it might be worth it.
They will be sold to companies that pay taxes to the City and State.
Global Warming exempts the homes of Deep State Politicians who have the ear of what they think is God.
Carteret would flood down Noe St. That’s because they covered up a stream that used to be there.
Where is this in Woodbridge? Carteret, Port Reading, Sewaren, and Perth Amboy front the Arthur Kill.
Yes - and in the case of Arnold Schwarzenegger driving his huge military vehicle, it exempts their vehicles as well.
As NJ devolves into Thirdworldism, it is bizarre to see our illegals pedaling to work at their under-the-table jobs on bicycles - like Red China, but here.
[[No!!! More like a slow-motion evacutation from the leftist hell-hole created by the far left “regressives” ]]
HOW DARE YOU!!! When the left says it’s because of climate change, it’s because of climate change- what are you? Anti-Science?
[[I’ll be very surprised if the land isn’t repurposed for some income-producing use.]]
Carbon Credit shops
That is probably the issue; today they set aside land in developments to allow rainwater to actually reach the soil, and this might be rectifying that situation.
I live to the north between two rivers that empty into the ocean (Passaic and Hackensack), and we don’t have issues unless there is a “Hundred Year Storm”. When Hurricane Sandy hit, there were areas flooded that nobody had ever seen flooded before, and haven’t flooded since. They didn’t raze any housing over it.
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