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Originally posted by Peaches
I'm getting red X's 
When I lived in FL, we had a huge "beach restoration" project. It was millions of dollars and this was 20+ years ago. They put a huge pump out into the ocean and pumped the sand back onto the shore. The cool thing was all the shells, shark's teeth (huge ones - as big as your hand), etc. that appeared on the shore. 
We really weren't meant to build on the beach. I vacation in the Outer Banks every year, and storm after storm is taking the houses down. Unfortunately, FEMA (i.e. you and I) builds them right back up again.
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Peaches people are stupid like that. There's a town up the road a bit here called Franklin, it's literally in a 'bowl'. Town floods out every time it rains and when hurricane season comes through it turns into a big pond. Couple of years ago the water was 8 feet high and most of the businesses were completely destroyed. Before the water had even receded the townspeople were on the news chanting "we'll rebuild, we've been through this before", blah blahblah. Fucking idiots.
The mayor has tried time and time again to get them to move the town just one mile away, on higher ground that never floods, and the idiot townspeople keep voting it down.
Guess they like having those fat insurance checks coming in every year.