[putupon]

surely will exceed $3 million, most of it borne by FEMA

Who funds FEMA and if I go build a house on sand, will they maintain the roads and access for me too?

[usafsk]

3M to repair a road is pretty small potatoes, compared to other uses of funds. Isabel caused about 1B in damage, a small amount. I'm sure that you drive on federally funded roads everyday. Are you in an earthquake zone? Does your power ever go out due to ice storms? Tornado? Give these people a break.

[Rebelbase]

"As if to honor its predecessor, the new inlet opened by Hurricane Isabel exposed pilings from the old inlet bridge that had been hidden beneath the sand for a half-century. "Some of us knew they were down there somewhere," Austin said"

There have been reports on some of the local online fishing boards that a buried shipwreck was exposed down toward Cape Lookout.

[John H K]

Another monster hurricane in 1933 tore open an inlet in the same spot as Hurricane Isabel did, said former Dare County Sheriff Bert Austin, who was 2 at the time. Austin said a wooden bridge was built across that inlet to carry what few vehicles made the trip in those days.

Monster? The 1933 hurricane was a Category ONE at landfall.

Same hurricane opened the Ocean City Inlet and made Assateague an Island in Maryland.

[xzins]

The wealth of the people in a neighborhood should not matter about the state maintaining roads and bridges it has determined ahead of time are state roads.

If a bridge washes out in a poor neighborhood, why should the state bebuild it? It might wash out again in another flood in the future. And bridges are very expensive, too.

I simply don't see why discrimination should occur because of the area's economic status.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The senior Corps commander, Col. Ray Al- exander, says the gap in the island is a "breach" rather than a natural process at work.

Last time I checked, a hurricane was a natural process.

[Blood of Tyrants]

P.S. But I haven't checked DU's ERC (Evil Republican Conspiracy) page lately.

[TomB]

taxpayers to rebuild access to vacation homes lost in hurricane

You addendum to the title is misleading. The government isn't rebuilding a private access to "vacation homes", it is rebuilding N.C. highway 12, a state road. There are hundreds of people who live there permanantly, in a community that goes back to 1858.

[mewzilla]

Well, if you think this is bad, Virginia Beach has just finished spending tens of millions on expanding its beachfront. Don't know how much of that was federal money, but after Izzy I imagine they'll be back at the trough asking for more.

[Corin Stormhands]

I have less of a problem with rebuilding the road than I do with rebuilding the million dollar homes in places like Corolla. I would hate to see access to the Hatteras Lighthouse and Ocracoke cut off completely.

[mykdsmom]

NC Ping!

[FateAmenableToChange]

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[Constitution Day]

FYI

[Redbob]

This is just another "welfare" program for wealthy beachfront landowners - except that Hatteras Island isn't even a real island.
It's a barrier island, no more than an exposed sandbar, subject to shifting and rearrangement by nature, and we have no business subsidizing the handful of people who choose to live there.

If the residents want to pay for the filling, or for a bridge like they did in '33, fine, let them.

[F.J. Mitchell]

"Who funds FEMA and if I go build a house on sand, will they maintain the roads and access for me too?"

Even if you build a house on solid ground beside a paved highway, neither FEMA nor especially not the NC DOT, will do a hellova lot to maintain the road or access for you.

Axle breaking pot holes are here to stay.

Maybe the oil companies would be willing to fix Hatteras, for the privilige of being allowed to drill along the coast,and build a refinery there.

[independentmind]

That's an amazing picture.

[the bottle let me down]

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