[AP photo] A bird's-eye view of a section of beach near Panama City Beach shows erosion that was escalated as Hurricane Dennis passed through the area on sunday.
Posted on 07/17/2005 4:06:09 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
[AP photo] A bird's-eye view of a section of beach near Panama City Beach shows erosion that was escalated as Hurricane Dennis passed through the area on sunday.
On the other, that picture shows the problem - People who live so close to the edge have no reason to blame anything except themselves when the ocean eats the land.
It's not like nobody knew a hurricane was going to hit the Gulf coast of Florida.
LOL...what is it with this guy's writing? I thought it was the winner in one of those "Worst of Hemmingway" contests.
My advice to those affected by hurricane damage...don't live on the coast, particularly not in mobile homes and manufactured housing. There should be a law that all buildings on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts be constructed of concrete with pilings sunk 40'into bedrock. That would solve much of the reconstruction problems after the inevitable storms. But what would FEMA do to justify its budget then?
In the picture it looks like the third house from the bottom built the deck to overhang the cliff.
LOL
Panama City Beach is a long way from where Dennis went ashore by Pensacola. This is natural storm erosion.
The coastline moves, particularly as the sea level rises. The taxpayer shouldn't be picking up the tab for these people's lack of good judgement. If you want to live by the shore, either get the insurance, or if it is not available, be prepared to rebuild with your own funds. You need to figure it into your cost of living.
Somehow an article about the hardships caused by Dennis was turned by you bozos into a rant about FEMA flood insurance. Lay off. A lot of people of simple means are really hurting here.
***.....A drive at sundown along Panama City Beach, about 100 miles east of Pensacola, showed minimal structural damage. But there was major beach erosion in areas that were in the midst of a multi-million-dollar effort to rebuild the fragile shoreline, much of which was eroded by Ivan last September.
Power lines were still standing along Seagrove Beach, and the boarded-up Red Bar in low-lying Grayton Beach appeared untouched. Seaside Village, the setting for the movie "The Truman Show," also appeared to have minimal damage.
The 30-foot-high sand dunes at Seagrove and Seaside, however, were badly eroded. The huge waves and storm surge ate away 15 feet of the dune line, already eroded by Ivan and Tropical Storm Arlene last month.
Every walkover, the long wooden stairways that connect Gulf-front homes and condos with the beaches below, had been cut off at the dune line. Several large stairways were tossed about in the violent surf.
Tourists who come to the area in the next few weeks can look out over the water, but there's no way to get down to the beaches from the high dunes.........
http://www.oxfordpress.com/biz/content/shared/news/nation/stories/07/11HURR_DENNIS.html
Thank you. So apparently the 15-30 feet high dunes are gone. Very sad.
That's the problem. If you can't afford to rebuild your house, you can't afford to live on the shore in a hurricane zone. That means from Cape Cod to Brownsville.
It's nature's way.
Too bad for the homeowners, however.
Here's the NOAA satellite photos of the gulf coast taken after Dennis hit.
http://alt.ngs.noaa.gov/dennis/DENNIS0000.HTM
One thing i've learned about "news" coverage of hurricanes is that they only do stories and show pictures of the worst damage. If 10% of an areas beaches and structures were damaged, that's what they show the pictures of.
The pictures only work with Internet explorer for some reason. Firefox will not open them.
I clicked on one barrier reef box and saw only water.
I didn't wait for it to totally load.
That is a neat site.
Thank you.
It takes a bit of scrolling around to find the beach in these pics. And once they fully load, you can enlarge them by clicking in the lower right corner of the photo.
Thank you.
Back in January the wife and I traveled to Naples to pick up an engine for an airplane I'm building. We passed by Port Charlotte where on one side of the interstate there was a heaping pile of destroyed trailer homes and on the other side neat rows of brand new FEMA trailers.
Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. It's hard to sympathize with folks who intentionally put themselves in harms way, repeatedly. It's really kind of amazing that the state of Florida still allows trailer homes after Charlie, Ivan, Andrew, et al.
The brand new FEMA trailers were intended as temporary emergency housing, not replacements for old trailers. FEMA uses trailers because they can be moved in and out of disaster zones.
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