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  • @A2_the_K
    @A2_the_K 4 місяці тому +134

    Is this like buying a house near a Naval Air Station, then complaining about the noise the airplanes make?

    • @frankmacleod2565
      @frankmacleod2565 4 місяці тому +5

      or like wanting help when your trailer park is destroyed by a tornado

    • @ravennajade3435
      @ravennajade3435 4 місяці тому +3

      @@frankmacleod2565 There's a big difference between surviving and being excessive.

    • @frankmacleod2565
      @frankmacleod2565 4 місяці тому

      @@ravennajade3435 I missed your point

  • @jimveybe7689
    @jimveybe7689 4 місяці тому +199

    You're building on sand. And you expect stability? Something wrong here...

    • @SMaamri78
      @SMaamri78 4 місяці тому +29

      I can’t imagine building on the edge of the ocean and then being surprised when it erodes away.

    • @Golfnut_2099
      @Golfnut_2099 4 місяці тому +5

      Yeah, look at what happened to Tokeland... It has happened at the coast for a Long Long time. Nothing changes.

    • @relaxingsounds5469
      @relaxingsounds5469 4 місяці тому +6

      @@SMaamri78 Why though? When those houses were originally built they weren’t at the “edge of the ocean”… the ocean came to them, due in large part to the construction of the North Jetty.
      Also consider that there are many, many houses that are built near the sea that are just fine. In fact the main coastline of Ocean Shores has been stable as long as people have lived there.

    • @frankmacleod2565
      @frankmacleod2565 4 місяці тому +5

      yep, like a lot of other places. Here's looking at you, Florida

    • @MadGunny
      @MadGunny 4 місяці тому +5

      @@SMaamri78 except that’s not what happened, if you actually watch the video lol

  • @Attalla2023
    @Attalla2023 4 місяці тому +116

    Problem for 20 years but let's keep building stupid in is stupid out

    • @frankmacleod2565
      @frankmacleod2565 4 місяці тому +1

      yep exactly. Look at everyone living in the path of tornados and hurricanes! The whole southeastern part of the country must be pretty stupid

    • @TurboLoveTrain
      @TurboLoveTrain 4 місяці тому +2

      @@frankmacleod2565
      Their home construction methods are very, very stupid.
      Most of north American building code is stuck in the 50s.

    • @frankmacleod2565
      @frankmacleod2565 4 місяці тому +1

      @@TurboLoveTrain yeah good point. We should be more like Europe, where flooding never damages homes

    • @StephenGrover-zc4hp
      @StephenGrover-zc4hp 4 місяці тому

      All out of greed from the developers getting more money
      for waterfront property! What are
      these houses going to do in a tsunami??🤔

    • @Trome1200
      @Trome1200 4 місяці тому

      It's been a problem since the beginning of human civilization.

  • @shanechostetler9997
    @shanechostetler9997 9 днів тому +2

    Maybe dredging is causing part of it because they are removing sand that may otherwise be deposited in the areas that are eroding.

  • @scottkellogg9736
    @scottkellogg9736 4 місяці тому +105

    You can't stop the ocean or rivers from doing what they do!

    • @gizzyguzzi
      @gizzyguzzi 4 місяці тому +1

      Or maybe it's the dams?

    • @MelioraCogito
      @MelioraCogito 4 місяці тому +2

      @@gizzyguzzi There are no dams on the Chehalis River (at least not between Centralia and Hoquiam), which empties into North Bay, behind Ocean Shores. Look at a bloody map, FFS.

    • @gizzyguzzi
      @gizzyguzzi 4 місяці тому +2

      @@MelioraCogito FFS. You think the Columbia has no effect? They also talk about washway beach. Maybe you should look at a map. And pull your head out

    • @phillipmoore6249
      @phillipmoore6249 4 місяці тому +2

      Netherlands laughs at this comment

    • @catalystcomet
      @catalystcomet 4 місяці тому +1

      Are you a local? Do you live here in Western Washington?

  • @mrjumbly2338
    @mrjumbly2338 4 місяці тому +49

    As much as I enjoy Ocean Shores, I find it hard to keep throwing funds at issues like these, sands ebb and flow with time, it is a beach and a moving shoreline. Has anyone seen what is going on at Kalaloch?

    • @smileytow1925
      @smileytow1925 4 місяці тому +5

      Our favorite spot D-4 or something like that at Kalaloch has been gone for awhile ( we camped there as a couple, then brought our kids when they were born, 1975 ❤️💕 wonderful memories, and perfect camping spot! It’s the ocean! ❤️

  • @johnconnell5115
    @johnconnell5115 4 місяці тому +52

    And it shows that the city kept giving out the building permits, knowing its eroding that fast

    • @sparkybee4786
      @sparkybee4786 4 місяці тому +8

      The builders don’t care as long as they make money. So yes, it is the city that needs to stop giving permits to rich people

    • @kq2799
      @kq2799 4 місяці тому

      @Dan-Rather Why are they there then; U know we can't have nice things...

    • @bd12544
      @bd12544 4 місяці тому

      A bunch of climate change deniers running things is my guess.

    • @bd12544
      @bd12544 4 місяці тому +1

      @Dan-Ratherthe city issues building permits.

    • @johnconnell5115
      @johnconnell5115 4 місяці тому

      @@sparkybee4786 and the city makes money from permitting and taxes

  • @4dpeepscom
    @4dpeepscom 4 місяці тому +90

    Maybe stop fighting mother nature

    • @ATRTAP
      @ATRTAP 4 місяці тому

      We’ve been fighting mother nature since the very beginning.. geez.. that’s why your grandmother survived cancer.

    • @gizzyguzzi
      @gizzyguzzi 4 місяці тому +2

      you didn't watch. the jetty caused it

    • @Makeitright531
      @Makeitright531 4 місяці тому

      Yes ACOE caused the problem

    • @MrHamlet
      @MrHamlet 3 місяці тому

      It's a human created problem.

    • @Kiyoone
      @Kiyoone Місяць тому

      trying to fight, because so far, the only damage we caused is for ourselves in this game. We always lose.

  • @wifibum3904
    @wifibum3904 4 місяці тому +85

    The city needs to stop selling the sand.

    • @ronco425
      @ronco425 4 місяці тому +1

      That's not gonna keep the glaciers from melting.

    • @MrHamlet
      @MrHamlet 3 місяці тому

      @@ronco425 has nothing to do with that.

    • @MrHamlet
      @MrHamlet 3 місяці тому

      @@wifibum3904 from what I've been reading, since the new mayor in city council have been elected they've stopped selling the sand. It was just the last corrupt mayor that was doing that.

  • @chesterroberts4647
    @chesterroberts4647 4 місяці тому +39

    This is not the first city that the army corps has destroyed by installing a jetty! Look up Bayocean in Oregon. The whole city was destroyed and no longer exists because the army corps built a jetty and changed the erosion of the ocean. The people in this news story say that erosion is normal but when we change the coast line by adding a jetty we change that erosion. The army corps has made the same mistakes over and over again and then they claim that it wasn’t their fault!

    • @eh3477
      @eh3477 4 місяці тому +4

      Look at what the Army Corps did with the MRGO canal in the gulf.... devastated coastal ecosystems and exposed cities like New Orleans to enormous hurricane damage.

    • @chesterroberts4647
      @chesterroberts4647 4 місяці тому +6

      @Dan-Ratheryes Ocean Shore is dealing with the damage from the jetty that was put in 40 years ago! I understand erosion is natural but when man changes the shore line we speed it up

    • @bd12544
      @bd12544 4 місяці тому +2

      Exactly. They operate with an outdated approach that should be left behind.

    • @lettus143
      @lettus143 4 місяці тому +1

      Another example of the government not caring about it's people

    • @MrHamlet
      @MrHamlet 3 місяці тому

      It's why the city needs to remove the jetty themselves.

  • @billofjazz
    @billofjazz 3 місяці тому +2

    I retired from the US Navy about 16.4 miles north of Ocean Shores in Pacific Beach in 1976. I then bolted inland to Hoquium, Aberdeen,Bellevue, and North Seattle. Now in Albuquerque.

  • @jayairBofR
    @jayairBofR 4 місяці тому +45

    Move, the same issue is happening all over the world. Sad thingbis tax payers have to payout for new homes. Waterfront is a risk and tax payers shouldnt have to pay for a lifestyle.

  • @Life_of_Matthew
    @Life_of_Matthew 2 місяці тому +2

    I couldn't imagine living that close to the ocean.

  • @shanechostetler9997
    @shanechostetler9997 9 днів тому +1

    Our oceanfront home north of Moclips is building beach. That’s where some of this sand is going.

  • @danlowe8684
    @danlowe8684 4 місяці тому +57

    "It's been an ongoing problem for the last 20-25 years", he says as a newspaper headline from 1968 rolls across the screen screaming, "Highway To Be Shifted At North Cove: Shore Erosion Prompts Study For Relocation." Another story is shown from 1986 that tells of a farmer that was relocating from the farmhouse his father built that was OVER TWO MILES INLAND when built in the 1930s. How do you say the name 'Washaway Beach' and tell of this 'new' erosion problem with a straight face??

    • @bd12544
      @bd12544 4 місяці тому +7

      You understand these are 2 different locations?

    • @michellelester243
      @michellelester243 4 місяці тому +3

      ​@@bd12544correct. Point being the jetties built at the mouth of the Columbia River changed the erosion patterns for hundreds of miles and all the dams prevented new sand from coming which is why Wash away Beach, the former town of North Cove, got a double whammy as Long Beach now gets longer. All part of the same dynamic coastline just the Gray's Harbor version versus the Willapa Bay version.

    • @MelioraCogito
      @MelioraCogito 4 місяці тому +3

      @@bd12544 _“You understand these are 2 different locations?”_
      Two different locations 25 km (15.5 mi) away, along the SAME coastline… experiencing the same problem… Imagine that. 🤔🤦🤦‍♂🤦‍♀

    • @bd12544
      @bd12544 4 місяці тому +1

      @@MelioraCogito yes. This is why it was included in the story….

    • @bd12544
      @bd12544 4 місяці тому +1

      @@MelioraCogito if you wrote better then you could be understood.

  • @Dave_9547
    @Dave_9547 4 місяці тому +6

    This is the same issue that destroyed a community on the SW side of Tillamook Bay in Oregon in the 1950's. A jetty was constructed to make entry into the bay easier and it changed the ocean currents. The entire peninsula was made of sand and washed away over time. Further jetty work was done and now the ocean currents are rebuilding the spit, but no building is allowed and the area is a nature preserve. I think there are still some foundations visible.

  • @ExpeditionNomadicAdventures
    @ExpeditionNomadicAdventures 4 місяці тому +17

    Nature is forever, homes & property lines are not.

  • @AverageAmericanExploring
    @AverageAmericanExploring 4 місяці тому +9

    We've had a place on the water near the jetty for the past 30 years. We used to have to walk 50 yards to get to beach. Now it's about 50 feet or less.

  • @Mad_Catter_
    @Mad_Catter_ 4 місяці тому +51

    Washington state coastlines are giant basins that once maintained glaciers as tall as the Cascade Range, the coastline is meant to fall apart and erode into the ocean. Kind of the point of the edge of a continent, meet with the sea. Rising waters doesn't help either, but then again we are scientifically leaving the Holocene ice age respectively, it will be gradually warming regardless.

    • @bodyzoasispersonaltraining9186
      @bodyzoasispersonaltraining9186 4 місяці тому +5

      Till trade winds stop and we cool off

    • @RobWastman
      @RobWastman 4 місяці тому +4

      Except the waters are not rising.

    • @Mad_Catter_
      @Mad_Catter_ 4 місяці тому

      @@RobWastman generally it is widely accepted that the polar ice caps, which mostly reside ontop of land, are melting into the ocean, as the planet intended to cycle through. You can't refute that evidence. You can refute the claims about human impact.

    • @scottowensbyable
      @scottowensbyable 4 місяці тому +4

      I grew up on Guam in the Pacific Ocean and Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. Both Islands have erosion. Yes its sad, but the earth ages like the human body. Its going to happen.

    • @Mad_Catter_
      @Mad_Catter_ 4 місяці тому +4

      @@scottowensbyable Enjoy the beauty while we can! And as usual respect it as best we can of course.

  • @mattbeese6152
    @mattbeese6152 4 місяці тому +1

    The real problem or escalation started when they dredge the channel to 36 feet at mean low water 5 ish years ago . I’m a crabber out of Westport for the last 22 years and there has been huge changes to all of the area.

  • @denniskimpton9981
    @denniskimpton9981 4 місяці тому +71

    If you build on the sand this happens and it's your problem not mine and not the government either

    • @jamesjazz3395
      @jamesjazz3395 4 місяці тому +4

      You seem nice.

    • @frankmacleod2565
      @frankmacleod2565 4 місяці тому +2

      Exactly! Same when somebody's home is destroyed by flooding, fire, tornados, hurricanes.... Stop building your trailer parks in tornado alley

    • @kevinmanan1304
      @kevinmanan1304 4 місяці тому +2

      ​@@jamesjazz3395 worst part is I agree with OP. We were taught in kindergarten that things built in the sandbox don’t last.

    • @bd12544
      @bd12544 4 місяці тому

      Who do you think the Army Corps of engineers is? That’s the government. They screwed it up.
      And then greedy capitalists sold a bunch of building lots where you shouldn’t build.
      I am pretty sure the only entity big enough to fix this mess is the government.

  • @lazybeachbum9394
    @lazybeachbum9394 4 місяці тому +8

    I ❤ Ocean Shores

  • @damanSV650
    @damanSV650 4 місяці тому +5

    Any concerns with those super sacks breaking down and causing even more plastic to get in the ocean? 2:44. I’m pretty sure they are not made for long term storage outside.

  • @thismoment.intime
    @thismoment.intime 4 місяці тому +1

    Open Sores was always a favorite place as child to visit

  • @glennstone178
    @glennstone178 4 місяці тому +41

    Why is everything a fickin crisis? It's on the fricking ocean, what were you expecting. I'm surprised it's taking so long.

  • @B_S_Media
    @B_S_Media 4 місяці тому +1

    Oh god. I grew up out there every summer, and from what I’ve seen on this. That shoreline next to the jetty definitely has changed A LOT!

  • @A3Kr0n
    @A3Kr0n 4 місяці тому +28

    The solution is to stop fixing things.

    • @gingerr9004
      @gingerr9004 4 місяці тому

      It is though. But humans won’t do that.

  • @shanechostetler9997
    @shanechostetler9997 4 місяці тому +6

    It’s not disappearing, it’s just moving to a different location.

  • @marcusinfinity9386
    @marcusinfinity9386 4 місяці тому +30

    Erosion is natural

    • @Oldschoolrules123
      @Oldschoolrules123 4 місяці тому +4

      Thank you, don't tell that to the climate crisis 🐑.😂

    • @marcusinfinity9386
      @marcusinfinity9386 4 місяці тому +2

      @@Oldschoolrules123 they're loons

    • @Izzytouchedmydog
      @Izzytouchedmydog 4 місяці тому

      No it’s Climate Change!! (Sarcasm)

    • @relaxingsounds5469
      @relaxingsounds5469 4 місяці тому +5

      Except when it’s partly due to man made actions which is literally what they highlight in this video.

    • @marcusinfinity9386
      @marcusinfinity9386 4 місяці тому

      @@relaxingsounds5469 oh great! are you also pointing out the title is misleading?

  • @MrChazz965
    @MrChazz965 4 місяці тому +74

    No tax money should be used to resolve this. Stop living on sand.

    • @frankmacleod2565
      @frankmacleod2565 4 місяці тому

      Exactly. Same with everyone back east, they want money after every hurricane and tornado and flood. Zero public funds should be used to help these people.

    • @bd12544
      @bd12544 4 місяці тому

      Tax money caused the problem though. The Army Corps of Engineers is run by the government.

    • @Truthasvictim
      @Truthasvictim 4 місяці тому +1

      There's a section in California, Palos Verdes, that's collapsing by the day and the houses are expensive so they've insanely thrown millions trying to what's inevitable. Obscene.

    • @mr.smitty1804
      @mr.smitty1804 4 місяці тому +3

      Keep taking my Tax Money and Spending it on People who choose to not work and People who choose to Live in Horrible Areas that get Demolished by Nature Annually

    • @Schlabbeflicker
      @Schlabbeflicker 4 місяці тому +4

      And when people can't afford home insurance because they built on quicksand, they expect the taxpayer through FEMA to subsidize them and complain about an "affordability crisis".

  • @seandonahue8464
    @seandonahue8464 4 місяці тому +4

    Truman had a home on Mt St Helens too.

  • @thecactuspat
    @thecactuspat 4 місяці тому +3

    I love Ocean Shores ❤

  • @michellelester243
    @michellelester243 4 місяці тому +5

    You don't stop erosion, you just move it. North Cove (Connie Allen) just won a national award for their GRASS ROOTS erosion control efforts using rock and driftwood logs to take the impact.

  • @hailutahistan3680
    @hailutahistan3680 4 місяці тому +23

    Building right along the beach is a fool's pursuit. The coastline used to be dozens and dozens of miles farther west millions of years ago. Erosion is inevitable and unstoppable. There's no way in hell taxpayers should subsidize people who foolishly built homes on the beach. And the folks who live there should consider themselves lucky if they are gradually forced out by erosion. Because if they aren't, they're all going to be sitting dead ducks when the Great Cascadia Earthquake happens and the tsunami washes over all the low-lying areas on the Washington coast like Ocean Shores, Westport and Long Beach.

    • @relaxingsounds5469
      @relaxingsounds5469 4 місяці тому +2

      @@hailutahistan3680 First of all, this particular section of beach is the only section in all of OS that’s facing erosion issues. The vast vast majority of the beach in Ocean Shores (the stretch of beach that faces the open ocean) has been stable as long as people have lived out here.
      Secondly, the houses that are currently at risk had like 100 yards or more of beach/dunes frontage between them and the ocean when they were originally built decades ago, they were not haphazardly built right next to the water.
      Finally, the erosion in that section is largely the result of man made actions taken by a bunch of engineers who built the north jetty over 100 years ago.

    • @relaxingsounds5469
      @relaxingsounds5469 4 місяці тому +1

      @Dan-Rather Except when it’s a consequence. There are many many examples all over the world of coast line changes both in terms of erosion and accretion that are the direct result of human activity (and I’m not talking climate change)

  • @FUL0H8
    @FUL0H8 4 місяці тому +8

    Ask the Chinese for help. There are pretty good at building China in the middle of international waters.

  • @Ja50nkAt
    @Ja50nkAt 4 місяці тому +11

    Mother nature: F*ck around with me and find out.

    • @chancepaladin
      @chancepaladin 4 місяці тому

      she be like 'oh i hope yall put some wind turbines out here, those are fun to play with'

  • @jeffwangerin8089
    @jeffwangerin8089 4 місяці тому +2

    Our family owns a house in Ocean Shores very close to this. The beach used to be very close to the street. Now it’s a half a mile away. It’s Sandy coastline, it’s always changing. And in the last 10 years, they’ve been building lots more houses and developments. There’s only so much room there, and mother nature is in control of it.

    • @didibolter9362
      @didibolter9362 4 місяці тому

      I am so happy that you have a home 🏡 in Ocean Shores, I always wanted to live there, but it was never in the cards for me.
      Enjoy the beach! 🏖

  • @marilynsue4273
    @marilynsue4273 4 місяці тому +4

    I was there in March - very beautiful.

    • @didibolter9362
      @didibolter9362 4 місяці тому

      I bet that you had a marvelous time, good for you! 👍🤗👍

  • @Kelly-yx9tn
    @Kelly-yx9tn 4 місяці тому +12

    Ummmm, mother nature.

    • @RonBoerste
      @RonBoerste 4 місяці тому +1

      Yeppers the lord giveth and mother nature taketh away 👋🙄👉🍻

  • @Livnglrg
    @Livnglrg 4 місяці тому +8

    We had a beach house in the 80’s by gray’s harbor. The property is a couple miles out in the ocean now.

    • @mariyahj8609
      @mariyahj8609 4 місяці тому +2

      Wow 😮

    • @erikhancock98569
      @erikhancock98569 5 днів тому

      Washaway beach/ North Cove?

    • @Livnglrg
      @Livnglrg 5 днів тому +1

      @ yes wash away beach. It used to be a half mile walk to get to the water from the house. In about 1993 the water was a couple blocks from the house. In 1995 it was under water.

  • @anthonyc8499
    @anthonyc8499 4 місяці тому +9

    Rich peoples second homes need a government bailout to be saved.

  • @duaneayers6117
    @duaneayers6117 4 місяці тому +2

    This has nothing to do with your climate. This has been going on for millions of years.

  • @apeters911
    @apeters911 4 місяці тому +2

    An old tv commercial comes to mind. Can’t remember the product , but the catch line was: Don’t Fool With Mother Nature.

  • @didibolter9362
    @didibolter9362 4 місяці тому +1

    I ❤️ LOVE ❤ Ocean Shores! This is where I grew up.
    My parents took me to Ocean Shores as a toddler.
    My grandparents would take me and my 2 cousins on a vacation to Ocean Shores, and we always had the BEST of time. My grandpa taught me how to dig Razor Clams with a clam digging shovel, and it was so exciting and completely fun!
    Ocean Shores is my HAPPY PLACE!! ❤❤

  • @jabreck1934
    @jabreck1934 4 місяці тому +5

    In many places dams are the reason for coastal erosion…. stopping the replenishment of sand and material to the beaches is obviously going to cause problems….. and has been well documented in other areas.

  • @tristankoch9017
    @tristankoch9017 4 місяці тому

    Well done Lauren! Great to see you in these segments. Hi from Lopez 👋

  • @shanechostetler9997
    @shanechostetler9997 4 місяці тому +9

    Jesus said” the foolish man builds his house upon the sand”.

    • @Jayo2454
      @Jayo2454 4 місяці тому +2

      Sounds like something a carpenter would say. 😂

  • @gotwalk
    @gotwalk 4 місяці тому +5

    Let it go. Fighting nature is a losing battle.

  • @flobie1kenobi
    @flobie1kenobi 4 місяці тому +3

    I learned this geology lesson when I was 5 building a sand castle where you keep trying to pile up sand to protect it from the waves. The waves won.

  • @buckystarfinger2487
    @buckystarfinger2487 4 місяці тому +2

    I feel sorry for the people but this is what happens to sand spits. Ocean city Oregon (?). Was wiped out in the 50- 60's it's all turned back to wilderness. Tuff break.

  • @StrikeBuster-b2b
    @StrikeBuster-b2b 4 місяці тому

    Here in South Mississippi the county workers push the sand that blows up to the highway back out towards the ocean to stop the beach from eventually disappearing.

  • @vicO1323
    @vicO1323 2 місяці тому

    50 years ago a friend told his co workers to buy land at Ocean Shores. Now all the property is slowly being taken back by the ocean.

  • @KaladinDarkEyes
    @KaladinDarkEyes 3 місяці тому

    Similar thing happened to Bayocean oregon. Changes to the river inlet changed ocean currents and washed away a town.

  • @kanank13
    @kanank13 4 місяці тому +2

    The city and the crony developers would still apporve and build structures on the coast everywhere. They will justify with statements like housing for everyone.

  • @jimmyrice598
    @jimmyrice598 4 місяці тому +1

    Will I know home much fun our families enjoyed ocean shores. Claming, beach fires camping & beachcombing.

  • @MrThorMNFinest
    @MrThorMNFinest 4 місяці тому +1

    What if us pumping so much oil will eventually put all land masses under the water?

  • @jaymacpherson8167
    @jaymacpherson8167 4 місяці тому

    Look at a map of Avalon, NJ. The north end of town begins at 6th Street. Before March 1962, the town began at 1st Street. One storm made that change.
    Fifty or so years from now, I anticipate much more of Avalon will be ocean.

  • @CherylMeyers-p8z
    @CherylMeyers-p8z 4 місяці тому +6

    In my opinion no one should be able to have land within several miles from the shoreline all of this land should be protected as federal parks

  • @CannonRush_AI_Studio
    @CannonRush_AI_Studio 4 місяці тому

    What about learning about what Venice does to stabilize parts of land? But I guess the water isn’t as rough though.

  • @inthetrenches7315
    @inthetrenches7315 4 місяці тому +1

    That's what the ocean does erod

  • @g-dcomplex1609
    @g-dcomplex1609 4 місяці тому +11

    Shorelines erode from weathering and tidal action, been happening since water covered earth

    • @frankmacleod2565
      @frankmacleod2565 4 місяці тому

      less erosion occurs when sea levels are dropping. Some shorelines are many thousands of years old.

    • @stainlesssteellemming3885
      @stainlesssteellemming3885 4 місяці тому

      @@frankmacleod2565 No, the erosion just continues on the newly exposed shoreline - and pretty much everywhere else. The Appalachians were once the height of the Rockies, but have been eroded away. The Rockies themselves are on V2.0, having been pushed up once, then eroded back to a flat plain, then pushed up again.

  • @jimmyjim856
    @jimmyjim856 4 місяці тому +2

    News flash! Building cities in a desert will experience a water shortage.

  • @Me97202
    @Me97202 4 місяці тому +7

    Why is there a music background on such a serious and sad story?

  • @craigieplaysstuff
    @craigieplaysstuff 4 місяці тому +1

    Uh, ever heard of offshore wave breakers, if it's not a surf spot, obviously, they should invest in using that for this area

  • @ericmaclaurin8525
    @ericmaclaurin8525 4 місяці тому +1

    Wave energy can be so destructive.
    It can also be harvested. A reef habitat combined with wave generation along the coast might even pay for itself over time.

  • @talesfromtheleashexpatdogl1426
    @talesfromtheleashexpatdogl1426 4 місяці тому +1

    Insurance companies should never insure idiots who want to live on coastlines. It just burdens people with common sense.

  • @NuclearSalmon
    @NuclearSalmon 4 місяці тому

    I remember camping at wash away beach, what was the campground is now underwater. This is just natural, the first nation tribes have been losing ground to the ocean for many many years.

  • @repairsecrets
    @repairsecrets 4 місяці тому +1

    The jetty was built to facilitate commercial commerce and safety of the ships sailing into Hoquiam and Aberdeen. To say the Corps of Engineers made a mistake is a major simplification or an a piece of mis-information by way of omission.

  • @sf55514
    @sf55514 4 місяці тому +5

    Shorelines change when hurricanes and severe storms pass through. Beaches are changed. To move to the shore and then whine and cry about it doesn't change a thing storms will still come.

  • @MrHamlet
    @MrHamlet 3 місяці тому +2

    If only WA State had some representatives in WA DC to help out the state. Unfortunately, the residents of WA keep voting not to have representatives.

  • @arimaoutdoors8255
    @arimaoutdoors8255 2 місяці тому

    Not even gonna mention that Damon point has been cut in half from the king tide last winter?

  • @BenTheBeastFranklen
    @BenTheBeastFranklen 4 місяці тому +15

    Open Sores

  • @jaykrishtv-io5yr
    @jaykrishtv-io5yr 4 місяці тому +1

    60 million not much? Its selfish. No federal money should be approved for this. Let the state spend if they want to. People within state should be allowed to express their opinion.

  • @Attalla2023
    @Attalla2023 4 місяці тому +5

    Oh too bad

  • @jerryh8417
    @jerryh8417 4 місяці тому +2

    If nothing changes, I suppose one will be able to purchase a "throw away" vacation home for little money, and just abandon it when the waves come knocking or Rainer decides to blow.

  • @RonBoerste
    @RonBoerste 4 місяці тому +4

    The lord giveth and mother nature taketh away 😔

  • @ghostshirt1984
    @ghostshirt1984 Місяць тому +1

    Earth is changing and people have to live with it and adapt to new conditions.

  • @kurtm5004
    @kurtm5004 4 місяці тому +16

    What is with this background music? Like this is some sad sob-story we should be donating to lol. Someone call Sarah Mclachlan, and lets fix this background music.

    • @comment8767
      @comment8767 4 місяці тому +4

      Music in news stories is dopey.

    • @joegladstone7739
      @joegladstone7739 4 місяці тому

      Fox knows what it’s doing. Listen to the music they use when they tell ya Haitians are eating pets or that brownies are invading the border. Fox picks music to rile your emotions, not make you question their claims.

  • @daveandrews9634
    @daveandrews9634 3 місяці тому +1

    Houses don’t fall in jeopardy to shore erosion. We build houses in places where we shouldn’t build.

  • @deepsquat600
    @deepsquat600 4 місяці тому +1

    Wow this must be the first time in the history of the planet that water wore away a shoreline holy mackerel I'm surprised scientists from all over the world are not there studying this strange occurrence

  • @xalspaero
    @xalspaero 4 місяці тому +2

    I've been meaning to check out Ocean Shores. I guess I better get on it...

  • @FernandoLuisi
    @FernandoLuisi 4 місяці тому +1

    They’ve been warning people about this for decades now people like we’re concerned get the hell out of here

  • @CHUNKYNUGGET666
    @CHUNKYNUGGET666 4 місяці тому

    Completely normal! It happens, where I am our shore line is growing! All along a shoreline it comes and goes..

  • @SheriKeenan
    @SheriKeenan 4 місяці тому +1

    Add mangroves they reduce erosion and some provide edible fruits and yes mangroves normally live in 50/50 mix of ocean and fresh water but they can also live in 100% fresh or ocean water.
    Coral reefs will reduce the speed of the water.
    Melt rock have them turned into art have rock art compitishons and drop it in the ocean we’re things don’t live or needs more stuff for more life to grow and the artwork and the sponges and corals growing on them will reduce the erosion and provide more life.

    • @mmedved5567
      @mmedved5567 4 місяці тому +1

      And what drugs are you on?

    • @SheriKeenan
      @SheriKeenan 4 місяці тому

      @@mmedved5567 it was worded bad but what I said is completely tree just not the art that was for fun and to potentially add funding as well as places for things to grow on to fix damage or completely gone of life spots to help with everything.
      Mangrove roots hold soil and provides homes for fish they reduce storm water speeds as well.
      Corals reefs reduce storm water speed and the more and longer of the reef the better but land height plays a roll too in the ocean if high for long to long way out it will reduce it much more add a reef on top and wow it’s good at reducing damage on land.

  • @jesstreloar7706
    @jesstreloar7706 4 місяці тому

    Bayocean: The lost resort town in Oregon that has been forgotten. Bayocean was built in 1906 as a planned resort community on Tillamook Spit, a small stretch of land between the Pacific Ocean and Tillamook Bay. After the Army Corp of Engineers built the north jetty at the entrance to Tillamook Bay it created a vortex current that eroded the beach and bluffs on which Bayocean was built. Sure looks like the same thing is going on here.

  • @edspence4732
    @edspence4732 4 місяці тому

    The sand and silt is no longer coming out of the mouth of the Columbia river at the rate it used to. That sand and silt traveled up the Washington coast and built and maintained the coast line.

  • @TestTest-uf6gv
    @TestTest-uf6gv 4 місяці тому +1

    Your friend and mine " there's one born every minute" P.T. Barnum.

  • @mausercawley
    @mausercawley 4 місяці тому

    Good story, guys, thank you

  • @jamesfrankiewicz5768
    @jamesfrankiewicz5768 4 місяці тому +6

    I was out there during the king tides on 12/26/2022 with some stormy weather incoming. There were some massive breakers rolling in between the two jetties. One of the waves even knocked a several ton boulder that was on top of the (north) jetty into a slightly different position. While I wasn't anywhere near that boulder, it was at that point I decided that I wasn't going to try to get any closer to the "splash zone" than I already was. It was a very awe-inspiring day, in the truest sense of the phrase. Anyway, that king tide+storm combination caused a huge amount of erosion, all by itself.

    • @didibolter9362
      @didibolter9362 4 місяці тому

      Oh, that sounds so exciting, I love storms. I have never seen a King Tide, it sure sounds impressive!

  • @KennethAlexander-mj2zt
    @KennethAlexander-mj2zt 4 місяці тому +1

    Hello to anyone! You need to move out of that area! You all do not have the power to Stop any of this! On any coastline!

  • @alooga555
    @alooga555 4 місяці тому +3

    "Ocean" + "Shores." Didn't these people have a clue when they came across those words?

    • @patriciareid437
      @patriciareid437 4 місяці тому +1

      blinded to the obvious dangers by the beauty and opportunity to have something someone else doesn't have. same problems on Lake Michigan...Government had to buy out those folks because the lake was advancing on their homes.

  • @msomething3579
    @msomething3579 4 місяці тому +2

    North Carolina outer banks, people are crying the beach has moved,..

  • @bkind2182
    @bkind2182 4 місяці тому

    Same thing happened to Bayocean city in Oregon...

  • @bethhenkelman5249
    @bethhenkelman5249 4 місяці тому +2

    Rebuild the jetty? Didn’t the jetty cause the problem?

  • @johncholmes643
    @johncholmes643 4 місяці тому

    Damn! That reporter is fire🔥🔥

  • @stenbak88
    @stenbak88 4 місяці тому +5

    Why is everyone acting like this isn’t extremely normal, we did this

  • @raquelmascara6382
    @raquelmascara6382 4 місяці тому +1

    Nature wants that land back.

  • @joeblow4639
    @joeblow4639 4 місяці тому +1

    Can’t win against Mother Nature.

  • @kenmore01
    @kenmore01 3 місяці тому +1

    What a quandary. We can spend billions trying to save it for a few more years, or we can just say goodbye. What to do, what to do.

  • @weldean46
    @weldean46 4 місяці тому +1

    you cant stop mother nature from changing the landscape.