Quote:Black Aeronaut wrote:Any residential or commercial property in Padre Island no one is gonna miss? Btw BA you do know that it applies to all waterfront property? Including the San Antonio Riverwalk? Which is why I noted the smart ones in Alabama's Gulf Coast had built their beachfront houses on stilts 10 ft. high. of course they opened up riverfront property here in D.C also. Any river system that drains to the ocean will also see a rise in water levels.
The GOP will eventually have to change their minds. Maintaining beaches is getting to be more and more expensive, and the owners of such properties tend to be Republicans. If the wealthiest Republicans have to blow half their fortunes on maintaining beach fronts, they'll certainly make themselves heard in the most effective way possible.
Their cheque books.
Meanwhile, I'll simply sit up here in San Antonio and await the day that a good portion of Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Port Aransas, and maybe a bit of Houston all get swallowed by the Gulf. It will be that much more of Texas that will start voting Democrat once it happens.
(I'm not terribly worried about Padre Island. It's a sandbar island so it'll simply wind up migrating relative to the new coast line.)
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