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But climate change is a hoax!
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/27483-sea-swallows-the-last-house-in-doomed-virginia-beach-town
Richard F. Hall will land in the history books, if he makes it at all, alongside dreamers and hucksters who sold swampland in Florida and on parched mesa tops in New Mexico. Hall was the developer who tried to build a beach town on Cedar Island, a patch of wind- and wave-tossed sand off the Virginia coast.
Heres Tom Horton, writing in The Baltimore Sun in 1998:
The new Chesapeake Bay Bridge now nearing completion brings the great cities of Washington and Baltimore within pleasant driving distance, Hall wrote in 1951.
He envisioned a bridge to the island from the Accomack County mainland and a highway running the length of Cedar. Without either one, Hall sold some 2,000 lots
The bridge and the highway never materialized. Still, Halls granddaughter, Elizabeth, and her developer husband, sold more land on the island in the 1980s, even as the houses that people built there washed, one by one, into the sea.
Those who had the means moved their vacation homes away from the advancing surf. A few of them hung on for decades. But now comes the news that the sea has swallowed the last house standing on Cedar Island.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Last Cedar Island house slips into sea
http://www.bayjournal.com/article/last_cedar_island_house_slips_into_sea
Vmrc Denies Cottage Permit
http://articles.dailypress.com/1989-01-04/news/8901040033_1_plovers-cedar-island-cottage
Special Report: While The Bay Dies
http://articles.dailypress.com/1992-02-18/news/9202180124_1_plover-barrier-islands-cedar-island
Pre- and Post-Storm Photo Comparisons - Virginia
http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/hurricanes/norida/photo-comparisons/virginia.html
2007 REPORT
http://www.deq.virginia.gov/Portals/0/DEQ/CoastalZoneManagement/task10-04-06a.pdf
Remnants of Cedar Island homes dangerous for boats
http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20120811/ESN01/208110301/Remnants-Cedar-Island-homes-dangerous-boats?odyssey=tab%7ctopnews%7ctext%7cEastern%20Shore%20News
Photographer/blogger visits:
http://www.johnvantine.com/abandoned-house-on-island-in-wachapreague/
Cedar Island
http://www.virginiaplaces.org/geology/cedar.html
"Cedar Island": The Place for the Tired and Weary
http://eshore.vcdh.virginia.edu/node/1939
eridani
(51,907 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)not believe it is happening.
ellenrr
(3,864 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)right on the head.