These people are insane. Then again, this is Democrat NJ.
I would quickly leave New Jersey.
This is insane.
No!!! More like a slow-motion evacutation from the leftist hell-hole created by the far left "regressives" calling themselves democrats.
Just wow is right. Some well-connected developer is going to be a gazillionaire.
I suspect some well connected potentate wants this land on the cheap. The climate change nonsense is just a cover.
Your tax dollars at work.
The level of insanity is so high
There HAS to be a way for me to make some money off of the potential pending doom facing the earth! It just seems way too easy to ignore anymore.
Just ask the Obamas. They know -- and acquired ocean front property for themselves.
The government uses OUR money to pay for the properties. They then lose money on loss of property taxes, so they raise taxes on others to make up the difference. When everyone forgets that there was supposed to be a flood, they resell the land to a commercial development company for industrial operations, or to house illegal immigrants or the homeless. The entire time, the buying is from taxpayers, the selling fills the pockets of donors and politicians.
God knows they wouldn’t move to shore up areas where they could stop the rise from happening, like build dikes.
Just give up, we are defeated. Except of course on waterfront areas where the politicians and the Millionaires live.
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?
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 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.
Where is this in Woodbridge? Carteret, Port Reading, Sewaren, and Perth Amboy front the Arthur Kill.