The bottom section of stairs down to Nauset Light Beach in Eastham? Gone. The Sandy Neck Beach handicap ramp in Barnstable? A chunk of that is gone, too, sucked into the Atlantic. Plum Island’s squishy sand, a crucial buffer for homes? Tons met the same fate.
The weekend blizzard savaged the coastline of Massachusetts, with many communities on Cape Cod reporting that 15 to 20 feet of beach disappeared. The bluff coast – the 20 miles or so from Eastham to Truro with steep dunes soaring up to 140 feet -- suffered some of the most visible, and dangerous, erosion. The ocean scoured out the bottom of the bluffs, leaving sandy cliffs jutting over the beach with no support.
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Welcome to global warming. Time to sell that beachfront property, before it disappears!
So what happened on Nantucket and the Vineyard?
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I have no problems with private property owners spending their money to repair storm damage to their private homes. I just object to state tax dollars, for example at Plum Island, being used to stabilize sand on private property in a private property owners' battle against Mother Nature.
Totally agree but at the same time, some of these larger estates whose owners can afford the repairs, begin to jut out onto the ocean and the owners then block access in front of their property. It's an interesting legal problem but I'm 100% with you on the taxpayers (or insurers) not being on the hook.
Who said Nature is motherly? Mother Nature must have PMS. My idea to protect your beach front property is to
build your next beach house on a barge attached to long, anchored chains. This is too expensive, of course, even to consider unless you are very rich.