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  1. You should send your ideas to Galveston officials. Donโ€™t know why those ugly jetties were placed.
  2. A lot of these houses were built before the 80s. Then permitting rules changed and environmental rules changed. All of these homes are now valued at $3M plus - no idea what the prices were when they were originally built. The state is saying (generally), "sorry but if you can't move your house, it is your loss - We won't allow you to install a new seawall or reinforce the old seawall". So, basically they are telling the homeowner that their $3M+ investment is now worth zero. And I assume that the erosion will continue until it reaches the street. Then the city will put in a seawall. Either that or the state will give in and allow homeowners to save their homes.
  3. That stuff is happening more frequently in California and the state isn't allowing residents to rebuild the seawall. Eroding bluffs could send California homes tumbling into the ocean. What can be done? Mackenzie Shuman, John Lynch Wed, March 13, 2024 at 10:17 AM CDT 10 min read Generate Key Takeaways Over the past 30 years, Tony and Marilee Hyman have enjoyed the fruits of what they describe as โ€œ10 years of doing three jobsโ€ to retire in their Shell Beach dream home. Their home on Indio Drive just north of Pismo Beach proper is perched on a bluff more than 25 feet above sea level, with a lush garden backyard standing between their living room and the open ocean. But even as little as 10 years ago, the Hymans had more backyard than they do today. The property has been victim to pounding ocean waves and storm runoff that have eaten away at the coastline over the past few years, Tony said. They and other oceanfront homeowners have found themselves on the front lines of a fight against the worst of Mother Natureโ€™s appetite, and in many cases, state regulators are siding with nature on whether itโ€™s better to protect valuable property by armoring the coast or give way to the inexorable forces of the sea. Luckily, the Hymans already have a seawall protecting their backyard โ€” but their neighbor to the north, John Okerblom, was denied permits to similarly armor his property. This unprotected property has allowed the crashing waves to work their way around the back of the Hymanโ€™s seawall and erode the bluff once protecting the side of their home. โ€œAs this erodes, itโ€™s getting closer and closer to us,โ€ Tony said of the neighborโ€™s property. โ€œItโ€™s now down to 26 feet, where at one time it was more than 50 (feet).โ€ The Hymansโ€™ property was equipped with a seawall when they purchased the property for around $1.16 million in the early 1990s, Marilee said. She said they partnered with Okerblom about five years ago to apply for the necessary permits to extend their seawall and build one in their neighborโ€™s backyard but have been denied by the California Coastal Commission at seemingly every turn. On Jan. 10, the Coastal Commission sent a letter to the Hymans making clear that any future armoring of the coastline along their neighborโ€™s backyard would be prohibited โ€” even if it means leaving their home at risk. โ€œIn light of the dangers to development at this site, we advise that you pursue courses of action associated with this site that do not include shoreline armoring, and that you start planning for next steps that might be necessary in light of such dangers at this location, including potential removal of any threatened development before it falls to the beach below and creates public hazards,โ€ the letter read. The commissionโ€™s hard-line stance against seawalls has displeased some in the Shell Beach community. Homeowners want to protect their homes from falling into the ocean while the Coastal Commission says such armoring is too harmful to the environment to justify.
  4. That's what I think as well. I've seen too many individuals in California screwed by the changing codes for things like seawalls and water rights that I am pretty confident that it will be an issue. Perhaps with so many people affected and with the likelihood of bad press that they will let things slide, but I doubt it.
  5. They have a lot of talent and an easy enough schedule that they can mask the downgrade in QBs and shitty coaching.
  6. @Fat Bastard knows the renowned ones at Texas Heart Institute in Houston and I know some of the ones at UT Houston. Most of my THI connections have retired or passed away. Wayne Dear, Grady Hallman, Denton Cooley...
  7. Are you willing to travel to Houston? We know some of the best there.
  8. Thatโ€™s exactly what Sandusky said.
  9. Thanks. Iโ€™m about to take off so no streaming.
  10. At a bar in the Denver airport and the guy next to me is crying that tOSU needs to fire Ryan Day. What a schmuk!
  11. I have family from Youngstown and Pittsburg, but Pittsburg fam went to Penn and Youngstown went to Tulane - so not so much. But I worked at a place where the director of R&D went to Notre Dame and the president of my med school class one year went to Notre Dame and both those guys are Smug little shits. I also had a classmate in graduate school who went to Notre Dame and he was smarmy also.
  12. No worse and no better than Notre Dame IMO
  13. Everything is on the internet these days
  14. Because they are tOSU fans.
  15. A "water hammer" is not a physical component on an engine and is neither aqueous nor a tool for banginโ€™.
  16. Iโ€™m an expert in firefighting and insurance. What is it yโ€™all would like to know?
  17. Fine, Iโ€™ll grow beets. But, I donโ€™t like beets.
  18. I think today, Iโ€™ll be an expert in fire fighting and insurance.
  19. Austin wasn't meant to have a million residents. LA wasn't meant to have 10 million. If we are being honest, over-population in these areas is a mistake.
  20. I guess Pepperdine is okay? I have a friend whose sister lives in Malibu whose house overlooks the Pacific. I assume all those houses are gone based on those pics of all the lost beachfront properties.
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