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To: Lane3 who wrote (19276)	5/24/2017 5:32:59 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 356263

>> I experienced a lot of hurricanes as a kid. I was pretty much psychologically inured to them. I must say, though, that the reality of Camille did cost me more than a few heartbeats. While I was a teen at that time, I remember Camille through news reporting. Living in Arkansas, we've never had meaningful consequences of any hurricane. But Camille received heavy reportage. I guess it is a claim to fame having been there. Probably not something you'd want to do again, either lol...

To: Lane3 who wrote (19276)	5/24/2017 7:36:26 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356263

I grew up on the Texas Gulf coast. Watched hurricanes from Carla through Wilma. It is dangerous enough to experience them inland. If saltwater can reach you, you are a fool. Sea water masses 66 pounds a cubic foot. Waves move at up to 50-60 miles an hour during a hurricane. They exert a force that can approach a fully loaded semi. Impacting every few seconds. For hours. Winds, lightning and tornados are bad enough. Floods can be awful. But the sea can kill youl. Hurricanes are like nuclear weapons. Best experienced on TV. Hurricane Carla devastated the coast. Took out beach houses up and down the coast. It was bad enough that people wouldn't build a beach house worth very much for decades. Many had no electricity, water or sewage because the feeling was a hurricane could take it at any time. Until we had a several decade lull in hurricanes. People started building beach houses. Some really expensive ones. Not to mention condos. Texas has their Open Beaches Act. That means that from the water to the grass line is public property. If the grass line shifts and your property is in front of it, you lose. However, when people started building expensive beach houses, they got upset when people would drive down the beach. Throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, they put pressure on the local municipalities to close off access to the beaches where they had their houses. Which many places did. Then, when hurricanes returned in the 1990s, and with a vengeance in the 2000s, people started to lose their property. And complained. And demanded that the state restore the beaches to like they were and stop seizing their now very damaged houses in front of the grass line. It was a mess. It isn't like the law was a secret. Sellers and realtors are required by law to inform buyers about it. One of the ideas behind the law is to discourage people from investing much in beach front property because a hurricane is going to take it away sooner or later. It apparently doesn't stop morons, though. Rising sea level is similar.