Maybe we need a half generation of no electricity and cold potato soup to get a nation angry again.

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Still no power at work still bearing the brunt of support logged in from home as I m one of the few with power and internet. It looks like another normal 60 hour week ahead. No complaints I count my blessings. Interesting though, a few of my Asian brothers and sisters drove to locations with free WiFi and are logged in. How do I know? I m looking cheap caribbean travel at internal IM and see who s online. Moral to the story: the soft and pudgy Amerikans need to get lean or we ll be speaking another language by 2025. The tat and muffin top muppets can t push the button and get a donut forever.
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My suggestion: If you're victimized by such a malicious abuse of process, join the mayor as a third-party defendant. The idea that pumping a wall of sand onto our barrier islands is a sustainable, cost-effective method of preventing the catastrophe that we're enduring has been fully debunked by the facts. I suppose you can make the case that some beachfront homes were spared devastation. Small comfort to the folks on the bayside. Never mind that it's a one-shot remedy and the places that were spared are now sitting cheap caribbean travel ducks.
Was the investment worth it? Maybe to the tiny minority of people who benefited. We now have an opportunity to rethink coastal engineering practically from scratch. When the first round of replenishment came to Long Beach Island and people saw, close-up, how destructive, dangerous, ineffective, cheap caribbean travel temporary cheap caribbean travel and expensive cheap caribbean travel it was, and woke up and started complaining, they were resoundingly criticized for being silent for too many years while the plans were being developed. The momentum itself was argued to be sufficient justification which apparently trumped facts, cheap caribbean travel physics and experience. Now that we're back to square one, and the utter folly of these projects is obvious, the folks who took a proprietary interest in the conversation can't insist that they own the debate cheap caribbean travel anymore.
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I asked Weber for his thoughts. Among other things, he told me: "The things that do actually protect life and property cheap caribbean travel are things like stricter building codes (which does not cost the taxpayer a cent), better cheap caribbean travel evacuation plans and community preparedness. Here's a good rhetorical question: Did anyone's home insurance premiums go down in places that got replenishment? No. Why? Because those who assess risk in this country, the insurance industry, don't think it is any safer to live near a replenished beach than a non-replenished one."
Obviously, the prevention of large-scale devastation isn't a simple task. If it was, I wouldn't be complaining. But it's clear, to quote Warren cheap caribbean travel Zevon, "the s**t that used to work, don't work no more."
Coastal protection has to be retooled. The rebuilding requires a thought process that our shortsighted planners have heretofore lacked. To look around at over a billion dollars' worth of damage and call prior protection efforts a success is nothing less than stupid. cheap caribbean travel That isn't the best we can do, and without an approach that acknowledges reality, this is bound to recur.
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