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$500K Dune Built to Protect Coastal Homes Lasts Just 3 Days (www.thedailybeast.com)
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My suggestion is to sell them to Ben Shapiro

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[–] [email protected] 172 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Ron Guilmette, whose tennis court was destroyed in previous storms along the beach, added that he now doesn’t know how much his property is worth or if he will stay in the area. He calls the situation on Salisbury Beach “catastrophic.” “I don’t know what the solution is,”

Oh no, not your tennis court. What a shame. What a darn tragic loss for our nobility. Oh why can't the climate adjust to save your beachfront home. How could the earth be so inconsiderate for our rich land owners.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 8 months ago

Won't somebody think of the property values??!??

[–] brlemworld 51 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They literally have children songs about not building houses too close to the beach

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm blanking on this. What's the song?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wise Man Built His House Upon the Rock Song by VeggieTales

Religious children's song

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Wow, I had no idea VeggieTales covered that song! I didn't think it was even very well known outside Mormonism.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Incredible how quickly one's sympathy can evaporate, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Just one sentence.

Ron Guilmette, whose tennis court was destroyed in previous storms along the beach, added that he now doesn’t know how much his property is worth or if he will stay in the area.

Not home - property implying one of many, and be owns his own private beach tennis court... But I mean I guess it could've been two words:

Ron, Billionaire

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

To be fair a lot of these homes have been there for 50-100 years (some way older). Salisbury (and parts of Hampton just north) is relatively poor compared to much of the New England sea coast, but those look like pretty expensive homes. Just a road or 2 over is a lot lower income. lots of fishermen lived there traditionally. That part of the Atlantic coast was settled and built before the idea of public land was really well defined unlike parts of California and the west coast.