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TheDebbieDee

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1. I saw several documentaries about this on one of the
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 09:07 PM
Mar 2016

thousands of cable channels I get. This environmental channel was showcasing the the thousands of multi-million $ homes along the coastlines in the Carolinas, TX and several other coastal states.

The documentary pointed out that although many of the purchasers of these coastal properties had been warned about the threat of rising coastal waters, they purchased the land and built expensive homes on these properties.

The Army Corps of Engineers spends tens/hundreds of millions of $ every year to hold the ocean back from these expensive homes but inevitably the ocean will claim what it wants and millions of $ will be wasted in an attempt to hold back nature...

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