There's just a bunch of well-off people who have been very imprudent, even stupid, and they've built their buildings right next to a beach, ... They're asking us to pay for restoring the beach when all we have to do is tell them to move their buildings and the beach will be restored.
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I remember after the storm we would drive up and down the beach. Seemed like for 10 years or so we would see those steps going to nowhere and plainly cleaned-off cement slabs, ... For us, they were a symbol of the storm and its enormity.Orrin Pilkey
I really believe Florida, more than any state, has not gotten hold of its erosion problems. Florida beaches are either doomed or the state is going to have a huge nourishment bill in the future.
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This is an obvious form of welfare for the rich.
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You don't have an erosion problem until you build something too close to the water.
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It is immensely worse as far as damage to the shoreline and beachfront retreat, ... goes across the islands very quickly.
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