Posted on 08/30/2009 8:20:37 AM PDT by skeptoid
NEWTOK --The ground shakes whenever a new hunk of shoreline falls into the river outside Tillie Tommy's window. Like "somebody trying to jack up the house," she says. Her doorstep sits a short walk from the water's edge, where the swelling Ninglick River is gobbling more than 70 feet of coast a year -- one muddy splash at a time. At the current rate, the erosion will chomp its way to her house in as soon as three years. A few years after that, it'll be the school.
(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...
SNIP . . . Until the 20th century, they were semi-nomadic, living in sod dwellings and moving with the seasons to find food. They established the current village in the late 1940s and '50s, moving from a settlement across the Newtok River to escape seasonal flooding and because the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs wanted them to build a school, according to the state and local leaders. That meant either finding a place where a barge could bring building materials, or losing their children to boarding schools, said tribal administrator Stanley Tom.
"We were nomadics back then. We never thought of living in a permanent village."
Now the cost may reach two million dollars per family.
Photos and maps at the source.
Government knows best, you know. I mean, we have Charlie Rangell, John Kerry— alas! We’ve lost dear Teddy— Harry Reid, and the list goes on. And then there are all of the czars! We’re in good hands. We should submit to those who know more than we do. They know where and how we should live, what we should eat, the immunizations we need, what our medical care should be, when we should just let go and die.
Assuming we are allowed to be born.
Clara Lou, you give a good description of life in a feed lot ... well managed, though short.
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I wonder if the Interior Dept has ever found the billions it ‘misplacd’ while the Dems under little Bille were running things?
No?
OK, no suprise then.
You know— you have a point. A feed lot....
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