Sandy Damage

http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/hurricanes/sandy/post-storm-photos/obliquephotos.html
 
Before and after photos of the storm damage.
 
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In regard to 'climate change' yea, there is some but then whats natural as opposed to what are WE causing??? ( agree we aint helping)
     A number of years back- before  Al Gore even started, back when the Science Community was still saying we were headed to another Ice Age- there was a big storm.
 This storm caused erosion on the New England beaches and some very ancient Indian fishing camps were exposed.
   Of course Science  rushed to investigate before the tides covered the sites again with sand.
    They  observed that wood being burned in the ancient ( 600 yrs or so) fire pits was that of a bush only found in far northern lands - not far from the tree line.  
     This particular  growth has long since disappeared from the New England lands and exists in colder more Northern  climates.
   Would seem that things have been changing for a long time before the Industrial Revolution and huge populations we now have.
    Are we causing more rapid change- perhaps - but its nothing new.

That's all very interesting. I'll stick with climate change sucks.  I don't have a doctorate in  meteorology , paleontology or biology, I'm more interested in the impact on the poor suckers who  just got hammered.  Just inland from the devastated Jersey Coast is a unique biological interface  zone called the Pine Barrens that is the northern and southern terminus of many plant species.
 If your home was floated pretty much into the pine barrens you'd find that factoid fascinating, I'm sure.

Charlie __ I agree and truly feel bad for all those folks.
   However- If one builds a home along the shoreline or even a nearby spot only a coupla feet above sea level or along the 'Old Miss' or near  any tidal waters or places that flood in big waters, or on those hillsides in Cal. that wash out now and then  or in a Gulf City that lies below  sea level ,ya kinda gotta have a bit of a common sense hint when ya move there that somedayyyy--
 About as sure fire safe a living off the end or an Airport runway--
   Its about time govt stopped worrying bout tax income and stops giving building permits in those kind of places and that folks give it a second thought before even applying. Some places are an accident waiting to happen and it dont take Einstein to know where.

Dr. Doug Wilcox is the coastal specialist who did a lot of the work on the Lake Ontario water levels plans that have been proposed in the last few years.  He did a cartoon for the folks on any river that want to be too close to the water.  In the first frame is a pix of a house on the ground with the caption, "Here's your house on the floodplain."  In the second frame the house has water halfway up the windows, things are floating by, and the caption reads "Here's the floodplain on your house! Any questions?"  I'm with retired, you buy your own insurance after one rebuild, or better yet, Don't build on the floodplain to begin with!
 
Did anyone actually check the photos?  There are a lot of them, if you know where your spot is on the map, you should be able to zoom in and see before and after pix.  I checked the Montauk Lighthouse, and it is amazing the detail you can pick out in the zooms.  No damage there, but it was built fore that stuff.
 
As to the salt being unfishable, most of the plates this past Saturday were Jersey and Conn, and one Connecticutter we spoke with at the Pineville Hole said he was only up there because there was no salt this year.  It will be crowded until the snow makes travel difficult (possibly this Saturday!)
 
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Luck all last week 2/3 plates were out of staters.  Mostly Jersey and Conn.  Some Vermont, 1 Virginia, 1 Alaska and 1 Florida and a few from PA