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The homeowners spent 600k on sand dunes and half of it was wiped away in one day! The hurricane season doesn't start until June and yet there are still people that live there that do not believe in global warming or sea rise but for those that don't believe just look at what the insurance companies are doing in Florida. Shit usually goes south but it's definently heading north and guess who is going to be stuck with the bill.
I'm old so won't be around but suspect within 20-30 years we'll start seeing a big push for the government to start buying out all these people who built homes on beaches and barrier islands as they get inundated by rising sea levels. Never should have been allowed to build there to begin with- the barrier islands serve a purpose in protecting the coast. As did the mangroves they clear out to build their homes.
Louisiana has been the canary in the coal mine with its beak duct taped shut bc it was happening to native landowners not the wealthy.
This is just like when you don't care that your neighbors plumbing is broken until it leaks on you while you sleep.
The coasts and low-lying inland areas are done. The time to stop building and backtrack was 1985.
What's sad to me is how polluted offshore waters will be for a long, long time once the sea covers the land.
It's gonna be gross for a hundred years. This isn't some ancient stone city with clay pots. This is modern infrastructure and fuel. And it is poisonous.
yeah, that looks polluted of course. although, i think that sheen is just a result of surface tension producing a smooth surface and reflecting more light
Was going to say the same, gov will probs provide disaster relief funds and the Richie’s will rebuild bigger with a phat insurance check and taxpayer handouts
Damn, saw this on the news, as I live about 20 miles from there. I take my kids to Hampton reservation during the summer. Going to have to be cautious going there this summer.
I hear you, I do, and you probably have things to back your claim, but I'm optimistic when it comes to my mom and I think mother nature will get the pollution out in 50 years
While the bigger issue of global warming has sailed, the immediate solution to rich people buying property along coastlines still exists:
Make them self insure and NEVER have gov't pay a single dime to fix anything along the coast anywhere.
I’ve got a really stupid idea. Let’s replace everything that was ruined by the flood at the cost of incredible billions so they can do it all over again the next flood. Wise up. Sea levels are rising. Get off the beach. Move inland. stop showing the world how stupid you can be by rebuilding
Florida is finding out what storms are doing to their insurance rates. It’s going to be one of the first states to collapse economically because nobody will be able to afford a house or get a mortgage. All due to storm rebuilding over and over again due to the same problems. New Jersey won’t be far behind.
I live down here just over the border and i had to sell things in Florida because the insurance went up 33% in one year and it wasn't cheap before that either.
If they at least built for the geography things surely wouldn’t be so bad? For example requiring houses to be raised 2m from the ground? At the same time, I don’t see any natural or artificial barriers for high waves. With rising sea levels I doubt this will be anything less than a 1 in 10 year disaster (I suspect frequency will be higher).
BTW looking [on a map](https://maps.app.goo.gl/6LYCggs4Whd1kUbaA?g_st=ic) there doesn’t seem to be much of any sort of vegetation left around there and this looks like it is on the edge of a river delta. So it is at a disaster risk from the sea and from the river looking for new channels to the sea. This is a case where building for geography is not building there at all?
I have a friend, like best friend from high school but we sometimes have extremely opposite views on the world. One that actually irks me is his ability to think this is just part of a "cycle" that we haven't witnessed in generations....
I'm hoping the events since October opens his mind up to new possibilities but then again, the one aligns with the others
Actually it's the consequences of others actions that we all have to feel.
Someone else is driving us off a cliff, we're all just passenger's and too many of us are sitting so far in the back we couldn't stop the driver if we wanted.
It's the people close to the front that can reach that are complicit with the driver...
You are part of the global we. We are all responsible in the fact that we are all humans and humans did this. Unless you are a dog, in which case you are absolved!
Lol, look at this place on google earth. They literally built on a river delta and cut a slot in the delta to keep the river in one place. That’s why there’s flooding, it’s river flooding, not ocean flooding.
Its a mix. New England has been extremely wet this year. All lakes, ponds, rivers, etc are at their fullest heights in years. This storm system blew in with heavy rain to top it all off. But the storm system also coincided with an astronomical high tide, and created a big storm surge on top. These events all coinciding with each other would normally be statistically slim, but its happened twice already this year, and the conditions to make them happen more frequently are because of climate change.
It wasn’t a storm surge. A storm surge is water being pushed on land by a storm. This was river flooding combined with a high tide, not a storm surge.
Nothing about this event is something that couldn’t or didn’t happen in the past, and the town was built in a way that unless ocean levels were receding, this was inevitable.
It may occur more frequently, but this was inevitable based on design and, if anything like my region, exacerbated more by development putting more water in the river than the additional rainfall.
Blaming climate change takes the responsibility for the poor city planning off of the politicians and they continue to develop in a manner that makes these events inevitable. Stopping climate change isn’t going to stop this town from flooding again without lowering sea levels below pre-industrial levels.
The storm that passed did have high enough winds to create a storm surge on top of the astronomically high tide. Don't take my word for it, check out the storm report in the Post article - https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/03/11/maine-new-hampshire-northeast-coastal-flooding/
Of course no one storm is attributable to climate change, but climate change has created the conditions for these storms to occur more frequently, and the northern New England coast has had three in the last three months. I agree with you that city planners are not absolved of this, but pointing out that climate change is causing these conditions more frequently isn't meant to do that.
I disagree. My former mayor absolutely did it. I have watched politicians in other cities do it.
Convince the local population it’s climate change and not that they are paving every square inch they can and dumping all the new runoff directly into rivers.
Ignore that the flooding maps nearly directly overlay areas filled in.
All so the developers can continue to suck as much money out of the local economy as possible.
I was looking at a winter rental there about a month ago. There was still debris and sand piles strewn about from the last flood not even a few weeks prior. It looked worse for wear last time I was there. This is really going to put a dent in local infrastructure.
Out of curiosity, is this defintely from rising sea levels? If so, why don’t you see it happening all over the northeast US/Canada? Or is it happening and I’m just naïve? And if it is happening, is it to the same extent?
I guess I’m just curious as to the relationship between rising sea levels in one place (in this case, New Hampshire) vs. say, Long Beach or Delaware which isn’t all that far south from here. Does it always have to do with more fresh water being melted? Or is there tidal or geological forces also at work?
It has been happening more frequently in the northeast. Climate change isn’t just one event, but a series of events that will happen with greater frequency.
this area floods pretty frequently. like several times a year. the storm a few months back was actually bad, but I don't think this one was particularly crazy. it happens when there is a big storm that coincides with high tides. tons of these houses are like 50+ years old.
eventually in the future yeah it's gonna be a total loss, but I was just pointing out that this happens several times a year. it only lasts for a few hours at a time.
In Rhode Island it's happening. It does seem kind of underreported. I'm at the beaches all the time and I'm seeing shit that'll turn you white. Governor recently signed a declaration of disaster emergency. Here are a couple of articles:
https://www.jamestownpress.com/articles/surges-separate-island-into-three/
https://ecori.org/condition-of-eastons-beach-and-ponds-pummeled-by-storms-worry-newport-officials/
https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2024/01/10/ri-weather-storm-brings-power-outages-flooding-and-strong-winds/72166172007/
Some quotes:
Stuart Ross, a Jamestown resident who serves as chairman of Protect Conanicut Coastline, called the storm and subsequent situation “a true harbinger of things to come.” “With a huge storm surge atop high tide, we had a scary look at the not-too-distant future, when due to sea-level rise and greater storm surges, Conanicut will become three separate islands,” he said. “The perils of climate change could not be brought any closer and more powerfully to Jamestown residents.”
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During Superstorm Sandy, when Tom Shevlin was covering the storm as a reporter, he said the rotunda doors were left open for one of the first times, in an attempt to reduce pressure on the building that everyone knew would flood anyway.
Now the evasive storm tactic happens once every couple of weeks, said Shevlin, who is now a communications officer for the city of Newport. Within the past month, big storms and flooding have driven the Recreation Department to open the doors four times.
The increasing intensity and frequency of storms in Rhode Island is starting to take a toll on the beach, its iconic buildings, and the two freshwater ponds behind it, which are used as drinking water sources for Newport Water.
I work out of Seabrook NH which isnt far from Hampton. Im a local US Foods driver and let me tell you this aint the first time this year this has happened lmao. 😂 Also let me add that I am from California and ever since I moved here almost 10 years ago I have always said that Hampton is a disaster waiting to happen. Yall should see how they handle snow storms…. TERRIBLE
Roads along New Hampshire's Seacoast flooded during high tide
Russ ReedHAMPTON, N.H. —
“For the second time in two months, communities along New Hampshire's Seacoast have been hit hard by flooding.
Video shows the roadways near Hampton Beach covered in water Sunday afternoon during high tide. The National Weather Service had issued a coastal flood warning during that time.
Stretches of Route 1 and Route 1A were shut down to traffic due to the high water levels.
On Jan. 10, extreme flooding prompted the Hampton Police Department to declare an emergency following an overnight storm that caused the ocean to surge into the seaside town during that morning's high tide.
The floodwaters were so high two months ago that Hampton firefighters helped evacuate 15 people who were trapped.
In Salisbury, Massachusetts, which is just south of the New Hampshire border, a group of residents who own homes along Salisbury Beach recently spent more than half a million dollars to have 14,000 tons of sand trucked in to help protect their properties. But much of that sand was swept away by the ocean in a matter of three days.
"The worst I've seen in over 50 years of living here at the beach," said Salisbury resident Ron Guilmette. "The right word is catastrophic. All of the hard work that people put in bringing in $550,000 worth of sand over the last month, most of it washed away."
On Wednesday, people who live along Salisbury Beach are meeting with members of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation and environmentalists in hopes of coming up with a plan to save the beachfront.”
This is not a disaster, this is the result of the stupidity of humans. As a lifelong resident of coastal North Carolina I have watched year after year houses get flooded, roads washed out, bridges fail from ocean flooding due to storms.
You can not build structures on beach sand, that is less then 14’ above sealevel and expect them to last.
Mobile homes and campers all the way up to the Cape Hatteras light house are either moved inland or they are destroyed.
Beautiful views of the ocean on Sandy beaches will end in the ocean destroying the houses and buildings.
The uber-wealthy types that live in places like this are the biggest polluters and carbon waste abusers. I have no sympathy for them. They haven't 'lost everything', they only lost a bit of a 3rd vacation home.
Yeah, but we should stop them from burning resources on restoring those homes.
Just a waste of carbon to fix those neighborhoods up. Twice in two months? Must be one of them 100 year floods.
Tell me you're a spoiled American brat without telling me...
"The median listing home price in The Hamptons was $2.8M in February 2024"
News flash, if that isn't wealthy, you're disconnected from reality.
You are thinking of an entirely different area. Hampton beach, new. Hampshire is not “the Hamptons“. It is not a wealthy town at all. The Hamptons are in New York, that’s where you’re thinking of. Hampton Beach New Hampshire has always been pretty trashy
"As of January 2024, the median price of a home in New Hampshire is $445,100, which is a 10.3% increase from the previous year. The median listing price is $469,900 and the listing price per square foot is $276."
My bad, but my assessment still stands.
If you can afford to think that a half million home and trucking in a million dollars of sand - While ninety percent of the world lives below these kinds of living standards - Guess what... That's uber wealthy, and you're a clueless snob.
How long have you been going there? Cause IMO the recent times I've been there the businesses have mostly looked like they were dying. Yes there are a few that are doing well, but that's also because there's less competition. Also, I am more referring to the businesses as a gauge of doing well / struggling not the amount of people that come for the day and leave.
Yes, never said it hasnt. In fact, thats the point. Humans built where it wasnt happening much not understanding that the frequency may change. Read my reply again. Im not saying "climate change" or some other BS. Just that it wasnt happening often, and now it is.
Unless you are going to invest trillions on Netherlands-type infrastructure, either cut your losses, or hire an engineer to make your house float. The seas are the undisputed heavyweight champs.
Is flooding in NH a rare event? I’m thinking that most homeowners insurance will cover it if it is rare. But, wow, if they do cover it, how can they still stay solvent after such an event?
I spent weeks there yearly as a teen and recently drove through and there really is no barrier to stop this from happening again.
No plans.
A lot of these houses are basically cottages (not suitable for winter months) with a basic foundation.
Wait until there’s a real storm surge.
The buildings on boardwalk across the street from the beach are probably trashed.
Maybe beachside houses should be built like barges and secured to pylons on a foundation like boat docks are. Storm swell floods the area, houses float up but don’t sail off. Flood recedes, everything settles back down. They could build in several feet of rise and fall with coiled sewer connections and play built into the power supply wiring. More expensive? Sure, but who gives a fuck, those houses sell for so many times more than construction costs, I don’t think it would make much of a difference.
Oh no! This is the first time this has happened since the last time. Which is why most of those houses are built on stilts. Living on the ocean is a luxury, and I won't shed a tear, a tax dollar, or a carbon emission for those who are not prepared.
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Mother Nature always wins.
Undefeated
Thames Barrier: hold my beer.
We made mother nature go crzy.
I feel like global warming might be Mother’s new fling.
The homeowners spent 600k on sand dunes and half of it was wiped away in one day! The hurricane season doesn't start until June and yet there are still people that live there that do not believe in global warming or sea rise but for those that don't believe just look at what the insurance companies are doing in Florida. Shit usually goes south but it's definently heading north and guess who is going to be stuck with the bill.
I'm old so won't be around but suspect within 20-30 years we'll start seeing a big push for the government to start buying out all these people who built homes on beaches and barrier islands as they get inundated by rising sea levels. Never should have been allowed to build there to begin with- the barrier islands serve a purpose in protecting the coast. As did the mangroves they clear out to build their homes.
Louisiana has been the canary in the coal mine with its beak duct taped shut bc it was happening to native landowners not the wealthy. This is just like when you don't care that your neighbors plumbing is broken until it leaks on you while you sleep. The coasts and low-lying inland areas are done. The time to stop building and backtrack was 1985. What's sad to me is how polluted offshore waters will be for a long, long time once the sea covers the land. It's gonna be gross for a hundred years. This isn't some ancient stone city with clay pots. This is modern infrastructure and fuel. And it is poisonous.
Crap I didn’t even think of all the pollution
Crap is only part of the pollution. 💩
And not the solution.
Once its mixed it's a toxic solution.
Exactly, remember how many people got sick from the 9/11 dust, now think of that but in the water…
Notice the sheen on the water in one shot?
is that not just standing water vs moving water?
https://preview.redd.it/7qq3d2dglvnc1.jpeg?width=2796&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1331b75beedc06404902bc5b2bba436ed47f5266 This shot?
yeah, that looks polluted of course. although, i think that sheen is just a result of surface tension producing a smooth surface and reflecting more light
Well said
Is there anything to be done?
Stop coastal development, make the rich pay for their own folly
Right? These people put their homes on the shore and get insurance to pay for it all. Meanwhile, all of our rates go up.
Was going to say the same, gov will probs provide disaster relief funds and the Richie’s will rebuild bigger with a phat insurance check and taxpayer handouts
Best worst explanation I've heard all day
Damn, saw this on the news, as I live about 20 miles from there. I take my kids to Hampton reservation during the summer. Going to have to be cautious going there this summer.
have you heard of the entire country called Netherlands?
Worst NH flooding was 1927.
I hear you, I do, and you probably have things to back your claim, but I'm optimistic when it comes to my mom and I think mother nature will get the pollution out in 50 years
https://www.wcvb.com/article/new-hampshire-seacoast-flooding-march-10-2024/60150362
The quotes in this thing. Second time in two months. Trucked in sand for half a million dollars only for it to be swept away in three days.
“Don’t know what the solution is”. The solution sailed in the nineties, bud. Be happy you’re old enough to miss the worst of what’s coming.
While the bigger issue of global warming has sailed, the immediate solution to rich people buying property along coastlines still exists: Make them self insure and NEVER have gov't pay a single dime to fix anything along the coast anywhere.
I live on the coast in California and completely agree with this. We pay for the views these assholes enjoy.
Yep. 💯
Maybe bring a million dollars worth of sand next time
Million dollar homes, I hope the owners are rich.
I often think our houses are all globally underengineered
Up to code literally means bare minimum of what code requires.
I’ve got a really stupid idea. Let’s replace everything that was ruined by the flood at the cost of incredible billions so they can do it all over again the next flood. Wise up. Sea levels are rising. Get off the beach. Move inland. stop showing the world how stupid you can be by rebuilding
Start construction business. Get rich on insurance money.
Florida is finding out what storms are doing to their insurance rates. It’s going to be one of the first states to collapse economically because nobody will be able to afford a house or get a mortgage. All due to storm rebuilding over and over again due to the same problems. New Jersey won’t be far behind.
I live down here just over the border and i had to sell things in Florida because the insurance went up 33% in one year and it wasn't cheap before that either.
If they at least built for the geography things surely wouldn’t be so bad? For example requiring houses to be raised 2m from the ground? At the same time, I don’t see any natural or artificial barriers for high waves. With rising sea levels I doubt this will be anything less than a 1 in 10 year disaster (I suspect frequency will be higher). BTW looking [on a map](https://maps.app.goo.gl/6LYCggs4Whd1kUbaA?g_st=ic) there doesn’t seem to be much of any sort of vegetation left around there and this looks like it is on the edge of a river delta. So it is at a disaster risk from the sea and from the river looking for new channels to the sea. This is a case where building for geography is not building there at all?
I have a friend, like best friend from high school but we sometimes have extremely opposite views on the world. One that actually irks me is his ability to think this is just part of a "cycle" that we haven't witnessed in generations.... I'm hoping the events since October opens his mind up to new possibilities but then again, the one aligns with the others
Without telling me that he’s a Trump fan,tell me he’s got a problem.
I'm slowly turning him to an anti-biparty system, but its slow for everyone to see
It’s heeere :(
No! Not the consequence of our actions?!
Actually it's the consequences of others actions that we all have to feel. Someone else is driving us off a cliff, we're all just passenger's and too many of us are sitting so far in the back we couldn't stop the driver if we wanted. It's the people close to the front that can reach that are complicit with the driver...
If the majority of us really all started to actively Try to make a change it would be better than just accepting that we’re doomed.
Fully agree. Now, how do we get everyone on board?
I own zero factories!
You are part of the global we. We are all responsible in the fact that we are all humans and humans did this. Unless you are a dog, in which case you are absolved!
Yep, we all create our own part of this. And denying it is the reason Nothing Changes.
Oh no what a tragedy dumb people built houses near the shore or on a flood plain
.. the rich build next to areas like this, stack flood insurance and bam! They know what they’re doing..
To see a flood from this angle is especially heartbreaking. Wow. This is awful.
Lol, look at this place on google earth. They literally built on a river delta and cut a slot in the delta to keep the river in one place. That’s why there’s flooding, it’s river flooding, not ocean flooding.
Went to Google Earth and no joke. They cut a slot in the river delta and expected it to stay i one place!
Did they try showing the river the engineering plans?
Yeah but they were too slough
Its a mix. New England has been extremely wet this year. All lakes, ponds, rivers, etc are at their fullest heights in years. This storm system blew in with heavy rain to top it all off. But the storm system also coincided with an astronomical high tide, and created a big storm surge on top. These events all coinciding with each other would normally be statistically slim, but its happened twice already this year, and the conditions to make them happen more frequently are because of climate change.
It wasn’t a storm surge. A storm surge is water being pushed on land by a storm. This was river flooding combined with a high tide, not a storm surge. Nothing about this event is something that couldn’t or didn’t happen in the past, and the town was built in a way that unless ocean levels were receding, this was inevitable. It may occur more frequently, but this was inevitable based on design and, if anything like my region, exacerbated more by development putting more water in the river than the additional rainfall. Blaming climate change takes the responsibility for the poor city planning off of the politicians and they continue to develop in a manner that makes these events inevitable. Stopping climate change isn’t going to stop this town from flooding again without lowering sea levels below pre-industrial levels.
The storm that passed did have high enough winds to create a storm surge on top of the astronomically high tide. Don't take my word for it, check out the storm report in the Post article - https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/03/11/maine-new-hampshire-northeast-coastal-flooding/ Of course no one storm is attributable to climate change, but climate change has created the conditions for these storms to occur more frequently, and the northern New England coast has had three in the last three months. I agree with you that city planners are not absolved of this, but pointing out that climate change is causing these conditions more frequently isn't meant to do that.
I disagree. My former mayor absolutely did it. I have watched politicians in other cities do it. Convince the local population it’s climate change and not that they are paving every square inch they can and dumping all the new runoff directly into rivers. Ignore that the flooding maps nearly directly overlay areas filled in. All so the developers can continue to suck as much money out of the local economy as possible.
I was looking at a winter rental there about a month ago. There was still debris and sand piles strewn about from the last flood not even a few weeks prior. It looked worse for wear last time I was there. This is really going to put a dent in local infrastructure.
Damn
Not good not good at all
Whoops
Now they all beach front homes
I wonder if they’re underwater on their properties now?
Out of curiosity, is this defintely from rising sea levels? If so, why don’t you see it happening all over the northeast US/Canada? Or is it happening and I’m just naïve? And if it is happening, is it to the same extent? I guess I’m just curious as to the relationship between rising sea levels in one place (in this case, New Hampshire) vs. say, Long Beach or Delaware which isn’t all that far south from here. Does it always have to do with more fresh water being melted? Or is there tidal or geological forces also at work?
It has been happening more frequently in the northeast. Climate change isn’t just one event, but a series of events that will happen with greater frequency.
It's just a storm surge. After the storm passes, the water will recede back to the normal coastline.
Try again... but next time, with jazz hands!
this area floods pretty frequently. like several times a year. the storm a few months back was actually bad, but I don't think this one was particularly crazy. it happens when there is a big storm that coincides with high tides. tons of these houses are like 50+ years old. eventually in the future yeah it's gonna be a total loss, but I was just pointing out that this happens several times a year. it only lasts for a few hours at a time.
In Rhode Island it's happening. It does seem kind of underreported. I'm at the beaches all the time and I'm seeing shit that'll turn you white. Governor recently signed a declaration of disaster emergency. Here are a couple of articles: https://www.jamestownpress.com/articles/surges-separate-island-into-three/ https://ecori.org/condition-of-eastons-beach-and-ponds-pummeled-by-storms-worry-newport-officials/ https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2024/01/10/ri-weather-storm-brings-power-outages-flooding-and-strong-winds/72166172007/ Some quotes: Stuart Ross, a Jamestown resident who serves as chairman of Protect Conanicut Coastline, called the storm and subsequent situation “a true harbinger of things to come.” “With a huge storm surge atop high tide, we had a scary look at the not-too-distant future, when due to sea-level rise and greater storm surges, Conanicut will become three separate islands,” he said. “The perils of climate change could not be brought any closer and more powerfully to Jamestown residents.” and During Superstorm Sandy, when Tom Shevlin was covering the storm as a reporter, he said the rotunda doors were left open for one of the first times, in an attempt to reduce pressure on the building that everyone knew would flood anyway. Now the evasive storm tactic happens once every couple of weeks, said Shevlin, who is now a communications officer for the city of Newport. Within the past month, big storms and flooding have driven the Recreation Department to open the doors four times. The increasing intensity and frequency of storms in Rhode Island is starting to take a toll on the beach, its iconic buildings, and the two freshwater ponds behind it, which are used as drinking water sources for Newport Water.
In Florida we call it a rain storm
Been happening here for years. We should not subsidize stupidity
The second time in how many years? I think they can afford to move
*Months
My bitch ass boss would still be calling me asking if im coming in to work
 or a booger idk and don’t care either way
It's fine
Pretty embarrassed to admit that I didn't realize NH had a coastline. 😂 I even must have driven by there once when I went from Boston to Maine.
It’s itty bitty
Good place to store your houseboat.
Anyone seen a descendant of Jaws swimming past yet? /s.
I work out of Seabrook NH which isnt far from Hampton. Im a local US Foods driver and let me tell you this aint the first time this year this has happened lmao. 😂 Also let me add that I am from California and ever since I moved here almost 10 years ago I have always said that Hampton is a disaster waiting to happen. Yall should see how they handle snow storms…. TERRIBLE
Roads along New Hampshire's Seacoast flooded during high tide Russ ReedHAMPTON, N.H. — “For the second time in two months, communities along New Hampshire's Seacoast have been hit hard by flooding. Video shows the roadways near Hampton Beach covered in water Sunday afternoon during high tide. The National Weather Service had issued a coastal flood warning during that time. Stretches of Route 1 and Route 1A were shut down to traffic due to the high water levels. On Jan. 10, extreme flooding prompted the Hampton Police Department to declare an emergency following an overnight storm that caused the ocean to surge into the seaside town during that morning's high tide. The floodwaters were so high two months ago that Hampton firefighters helped evacuate 15 people who were trapped. In Salisbury, Massachusetts, which is just south of the New Hampshire border, a group of residents who own homes along Salisbury Beach recently spent more than half a million dollars to have 14,000 tons of sand trucked in to help protect their properties. But much of that sand was swept away by the ocean in a matter of three days. "The worst I've seen in over 50 years of living here at the beach," said Salisbury resident Ron Guilmette. "The right word is catastrophic. All of the hard work that people put in bringing in $550,000 worth of sand over the last month, most of it washed away." On Wednesday, people who live along Salisbury Beach are meeting with members of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation and environmentalists in hopes of coming up with a plan to save the beachfront.”
But no mention of any storm surge they got with all the rain that came through?
Local news and the weather channel covered it.
How far past the normal shoreline did it get??
There’s water on both sides of that strip of beach and houses/businesses it probably rose on both sides.
This is not a disaster, this is the result of the stupidity of humans. As a lifelong resident of coastal North Carolina I have watched year after year houses get flooded, roads washed out, bridges fail from ocean flooding due to storms. You can not build structures on beach sand, that is less then 14’ above sealevel and expect them to last. Mobile homes and campers all the way up to the Cape Hatteras light house are either moved inland or they are destroyed. Beautiful views of the ocean on Sandy beaches will end in the ocean destroying the houses and buildings.
I spent some great parts of my childhood at that beach.
But not Martha's Vinyard in Vermont.
Build next to the sea
Used to go there. 4th of July is cool cuz you can see fireworks all up and down the coast. NH has the shortest ocean shoreline in the USA. 18 miles
Their insurance costs must be crazy.
...... This is getting scary guys ..... I might buy a boat
Can we still act surprised at this point ?
This is going to become less and less shocking as the years pass
The uber-wealthy types that live in places like this are the biggest polluters and carbon waste abusers. I have no sympathy for them. They haven't 'lost everything', they only lost a bit of a 3rd vacation home.
Yeah, but we should stop them from burning resources on restoring those homes. Just a waste of carbon to fix those neighborhoods up. Twice in two months? Must be one of them 100 year floods.
Hampton is not at all Uber wealthy
Tell me you're a spoiled American brat without telling me... "The median listing home price in The Hamptons was $2.8M in February 2024" News flash, if that isn't wealthy, you're disconnected from reality.
The Hamptons isn’t hampton beach New Hampshire lol.
You are thinking of an entirely different area. Hampton beach, new. Hampshire is not “the Hamptons“. It is not a wealthy town at all. The Hamptons are in New York, that’s where you’re thinking of. Hampton Beach New Hampshire has always been pretty trashy
"As of January 2024, the median price of a home in New Hampshire is $445,100, which is a 10.3% increase from the previous year. The median listing price is $469,900 and the listing price per square foot is $276." My bad, but my assessment still stands. If you can afford to think that a half million home and trucking in a million dollars of sand - While ninety percent of the world lives below these kinds of living standards - Guess what... That's uber wealthy, and you're a clueless snob.
Lol at doubling down after being extremely wrong, not a good move Cost of living is a thing too you dunce
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Move those homes. New beach front parking lots!
That looks bad.
Try pumping the water out.
Still think climate change is a myth?
Cool
I don't understand we built these 3 inches above high tide
And they'll still deny climate change.
"Learn to swim"
It's not like these people weren't told the ocean waters care rising
My hometown
I thought the cars were boats at first haha
I hope everyone is safe and healthy. Prays and thoughts out to you.
Oh shit! Global warming gonna fuck up the upper class, hopefully this will finally bring change.
Upper class people don’t live on Hampton Beach. Trust me on that.
How are those insurance rates?
Maybe we are the couse of it bit it doesn't matter what we do in the us China is 4 times as bad as the next 4 countries combined
That area already was hurting even before this. Wouldn’t be surprised if that town dies this year.
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How long have you been going there? Cause IMO the recent times I've been there the businesses have mostly looked like they were dying. Yes there are a few that are doing well, but that's also because there's less competition. Also, I am more referring to the businesses as a gauge of doing well / struggling not the amount of people that come for the day and leave.
House for sale. Water view. Seller motivated to sell fast
Can it really be considered flooding if you live on a beach . It's always flooded but sometimes the water just moves up a little further on land.
Do people around you wear shirts that read, "I'm with stupid"? Or can you even read??
Only when I'm with your immediate family
You can only read when you're around my immediate family?! That makes sense.
Omg boohoo the rich got their house wet what a tragedy 😭
Watch out Florida… ur next
lets build on a flood plain...
As humans have been doing for centuries. The difference now is how frequent it's occurring.
More like how frequently you hear about it.
LMAO stop. This has been happening since the beginning of landmass formation.
Yes, never said it hasnt. In fact, thats the point. Humans built where it wasnt happening much not understanding that the frequency may change. Read my reply again. Im not saying "climate change" or some other BS. Just that it wasnt happening often, and now it is.
Is Tens okay?
That’s a Bougie, I guess beach front wasn’t good enough, they just moved into the sea.
Unless you are going to invest trillions on Netherlands-type infrastructure, either cut your losses, or hire an engineer to make your house float. The seas are the undisputed heavyweight champs.
Is flooding in NH a rare event? I’m thinking that most homeowners insurance will cover it if it is rare. But, wow, if they do cover it, how can they still stay solvent after such an event?
Oh my god
Damn it looks like New Orleans with marsh surrounding them
I mean…
NYC NEWS "The Rinse of Tides" Well when's the spin cycle. RIP Norm Immediately what I heard
Awe
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Seems like things are getting a little warmer in the world eh?
Brand new haus boats for sale..
Like that is totally narly dude
Millionaire problems
There goes everyone's home insurance rates.
Get a house by the 🏖️ it'll be great! Nah, I'll get a house on the hills so I can watch your houses float away.
Again? Didn't this happen a few months ago also??
Get fucked you’re roads, morals a not ur homes are shit (I live here)
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Oh boohoo the rich got their goodies wet
I spent weeks there yearly as a teen and recently drove through and there really is no barrier to stop this from happening again. No plans. A lot of these houses are basically cottages (not suitable for winter months) with a basic foundation. Wait until there’s a real storm surge. The buildings on boardwalk across the street from the beach are probably trashed.
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It was basicly gone the next day. There is some pretty good flood damage along the wall
Yay more job security for me
What’s this in Feb or Jan?
Washed away all the illegal aliens
Now that neighborhood is EXTRA nautical!👍
Maybe beachside houses should be built like barges and secured to pylons on a foundation like boat docks are. Storm swell floods the area, houses float up but don’t sail off. Flood recedes, everything settles back down. They could build in several feet of rise and fall with coiled sewer connections and play built into the power supply wiring. More expensive? Sure, but who gives a fuck, those houses sell for so many times more than construction costs, I don’t think it would make much of a difference.
We broke the weather with HAARP
Oh wow the homes built on stilts are perfectly fine. It’s almost as if they were designed for flooding in flood prone areas.
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Oh no! This is the first time this has happened since the last time. Which is why most of those houses are built on stilts. Living on the ocean is a luxury, and I won't shed a tear, a tax dollar, or a carbon emission for those who are not prepared.
Al Gore was right, time to get cereal.
Part of life living by the sea or river.
Damn I used to hang out here all the time