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As many times as Congress pays to rebuild it — over a very long time.
A century after the federal government began bringing beaches back to life after they disappeared during storms, the U.S. finds itself at a crossroads with climate change.
Rising seas, storm surges and king tides are eroding popular tourist beaches and local economies on America’s coasts at a faster pace than ever. That’s costing taxpayers billions of dollars to pump sand onto beaches — only to see it disappear again...
“How long are they going to have to put new sand on that beach?” he said in an interview. “Forever.”
In Florida, a 53-year-old project encompassing Long Key and Treasure Island in Pinellas County could stay on a steady sand diet until 2080, according to the corps' Jacksonville District office.
It pales in comparison to another Pinellas project at Sand Key, where rebuilding costs have soared past $140 million since construction began in 1988.
Sand Key lost huge volumes of sand during Hurricane Irma in 2017. Its overall condition declined from “intermediate” to “poor” in terms of project “reliability,” according to the corps. Sand Key was rebuilt to “good” condition in May 2019, but by December it was again back in “poor” condition...
Beach Sand Replenishment Projects Are Expensive, Ineffective and Never-Ending | Scientific American
The article is lengthy and discusses some of the factors of beach renurishment, including costs and why it will continue, to name a couple.
They seem to talk like the sand vanishes. It doesn't vanish, it just moves.
When beaches erode, in most cases nature will replenish them again eventually unless there are obstructions to the natural flow of sand such as inlets and jetties. You'll see the same sand come and go many times.
Anyhow, as the article points out, there is no chance they will stop pumping sand onto the beaches anytime soon.
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Who was the most famous and successful pirate ever?
The Chinese Female Pirate Who Commanded 80,000 Outlaws.
Ching Shih, who lived and pillaged during the Qing Dynasty, has been called the most successful pirate in history.
At the dawn of the 19th century, a former prostitute from a floating brothel in the city of Canton was wed to Cheng I, a fearsome pirate who operated in the South China Sea in the Qing dynasty.One of the names under which we now know her, Ching Shih, simply means “Cheng’s widow,” but the legacy she left behind far exceeded that of her husband’s. (She is also known as Cheng I Sao or Zheng Yi Sao.) Following his death, she succeeded him and commanded over 1,800 pirate ships, and an estimated 80,000 men. In comparison, the famed Blackbeard commanded four ships and 300 pirates.
“She was absolutely, unquestionably the greatest pirate who ever lived,” says Laura Sook Duncombe, author of Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas. “She pirated longer. She made more money. She surrendered of her own free will, got to keep... her money, and live out the rest of her days in freedom, as opposed to being [cornered] and murdered by a government like Blackbeard was.”...
Here is that link.
The Chinese Female Pirate Who Commanded 80,000 Outlaws - Atlas Obscura
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Did you see the fool moon? The tides will be unusually high tomorrow morning and evening.
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| Source: SurfGuru.com. |
The surf is small but will be increasing. As you can see, maybe six or seven feet this weekend.
Good hunting,
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