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It is hard to feel sorry for anyone who built their house on a sandy beach right next to the ocean. The consequences are rather predictable.
by UltraSane 16d ago
It is hard to feel sorry for anyone who built their house on a sandy beach right next to the ocean. The consequences are rather predictable.
- bell-cot 15d agoThe article describes several houses either built or bought at seemingly considerable distances from the ocean - yet now near or at the point of ruin. A competent gov't would keep maps of projected future shorelines, and enforce very wide "no build", "no mortgage", and "no insurance" zones. OTOH, that would require both a great deal of effort, and a great deal of political resolve. Vs. Congress can't manage to deal with even the immediate mess that the article describes.
- pseudohadamard 15d agoIf only they'd heeded the 2,000-year-old advice in Matthew 7:24-27: Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.