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hatrack

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2. About out of patience myself . . .

Reply to Nihil (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 1, 2014, 08:32 AM

Oct 2014

They enjoy all the benefits of living next to the ocean, and every three years, or five years or eight years, we pay the freight - in Florida, or the Outer Banks, or Long Island.

Sorry, no. And it's going to be an exercise in futility in the end no matter how much money goes down the sandhole.

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Climate change harsh on Atlantic barrier islands [View all] unhappycamper Sep 2014 OP

About time people moved off them and let the islands do the job they've done for millions of years. Nihil Oct 2014 #1

About out of patience myself . . . hatrack Oct 2014 #2

I have the same frustration with people who build on flood-plains. Nihil Oct 2014 #3