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The homeowner mutiny leaving Florida cities defenseless against hurricanes (grist.org)

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This is hilarious. The U.S. Corps of Engineers has dangled a $42 million carrot to replenish sand on beaches in front of expensive houses but the homeowners don't want it at the expense of having to create public access easements (because federal dollars can only go towards improving public, not private, beaches). This town is going to get annihilated by the next big storm because these little tyrants want to keep their beaches private.

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[-] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Good riddance to all those giant homes parked on the coast. Let those avaricious dentists and real estate scam artists bleed from their check books for once instead of us. Do you all know how many I see with Trump signs on the front side? Nearly all of them. From Ormond Beach to St. Augustine, it's nonstop Trump signs along the coast. I never saw it with Mitt Romney or McCain, but as soon as they really started to crank up the immigrant scapegoating to 11, the signs all came out.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago

Imagine being able to take a boat up and down the coast and seeing nature instead of a wall of mcmansions and private property signs.

Eminent domain everything within 1000' of high tide

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's beautiful country and I wish it belonged to everyone that way. Sometimes I wish I could see it 100, 200 years ago to see what we've lost. Right now it's being further destroyed by a bunch of rich retirees and fail chuds from the north who have no concept of environmental stewardship.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Trump will nuke the hurricane to save the Florida boaters, but it just makes a tsunami and the hurricane becomes a radioactive category 7

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

To think this is an actual policy consideration and no longer just a one off joke from Idiocracy.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Ignoring the human cost: this would be the most bad ass thing. Green swirling death clouds. Damn ....

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Maybe they will do a season of the Fallout show where this is a major plot point.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I'm totally writing in "undying nuclear hurricane" into my tabletop Fallout setting. My vaulties are gonna love this one.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Xi, please....

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