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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (252215)9/20/2005 7:58:17 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1571068
 
"acknowledge that their current plans rely so heavily on self-evacuation that the poor, the old and the sick may have little chance of escaping a deadly storm ..."

On the other hand, they have a few days to work something out and the example of Katrina for why they need to do something. Now Galveston has UTMB and the prison hospital for buildings that should survive with little problems. After the grade raising, Galveston is high enough so that once the storm passes, it will drain off quickly. Note: this is the city itself, the west end is going to be an archipelago. A lot of expensive beach houses were built out there after the memories of Carla faded. I suppose a lot of people are going to learn why beach front property was so cheap. The dumb locals all lived either behind the seawall or on bay side in houses on tall stilts. Makes no sense...

I remember as a kid, playing in the surf at Boliver, finding septic tanks and pilings sticking up out of the sand. Sometimes as far as past the first sand bar. In the dunes was part of a road surface. Carla shifted the beach line a lot. And it was just a Cat. 4. But it killed the idea of building near the beach except for very cheap vacation homes for decades. That started to change in the late 1980s. I suspect that beach homes are going to return to a bad idea again. And people are going to learn the details of The Open Beaches Act. The act holds that from the grass line to the surf is public property. If the grass line moves, you lose your property. And the state doesn't have to pay you anything. It is the state's way of discouraging building anywhere close to the beach.
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