Posted on 02/07/2025 11:57:39 AM PST by george76
The waters of Cape Cod Bay are coming for the big brown house perched on the edge of a sandy bluff high above the beach.
It’s just a matter of when.
Erosion has marched right up to the concrete footings of the multimillion-dollar home where it overlooks the bay.
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Massive sliding doors that used to open onto a wide deck, complete with a hot tub, are now barricaded by thin wooden slats that prevent anyone from stepping through and falling 25 feet to the beach below.
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The owner.. removed the deck and other parts of the house, including a small tower that held the primary bedroom, before stopping work and falling into a standoff with the town.
He’s since sold the place to a salvage company, according to his attorney, that says it won’t pay for work.
Officials in Wellfleet worry the home’s collapse will damage delicate beds in their harbor where farmers grow oysters that are among New England’s most prized.
A report commissioned by the town projects if nothing is done, the 5,100-square-foot home will tumble into the bay within three years — and possibly much sooner.
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Its original owners, Mark and Barbara Blasch, sought permission from the commission in 2018 to build a 241-foot-wide seawall to stave off erosion.
The commission’s seven members — all volunteers — rejected the seawall
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
This was in the Bible................
My fantasy is living in a sea town, on a high hill to watch the ships. But not the edge of a cliff where this can happen.
Nice view, though.
Later in the article, they just HAD to throw in climate change. Those places have been eroding forever. All that’s changed is stupid people building there.
The phrase “don’t build your house on sand” refers to a teaching of Jesus found in Matthew 7:24-27.
Nice home.
Yup. Beach erosion has been going on for millions of years. This has NOTHING to do with Climate Change. But the communist apparatchiks like to gloss over the real facts and just drop some hints that maybe you should build a windmill.
Who knew building on a sand dune was bad?
...the foolish man built his house upon the sandAnd the waves came tumbling down.
This is a first!
Wait, it has happened many times.
The shake is that we have home builders who can build homes of the future on any terrain.. even in the water.
But government won’t allow it.
Cape Cod itself isn’t exactly a barrier island, but its geomorphological dynamics are going to be the same. Barrier islands are always moving and rolling and changing. It’s a gamble to build on them at all.
I wonder why there’s a cliff there in the first place? Oh, I bet pieces fall off down to the sea often. Gee.
Did you get the Norman Rockwell illustrated version of the Bible?
Rig a microwave to trigger a gas leak explosion. Do I have to think of everything?
Without reading it, I will bet there is a “climate change” angle.
And yet it’s John Cougar Mellencamp who’s in my head now.
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