The waters of Cape Cod Bay are coming for the big brown house perched on the edge of a sandy bluff high above the beach. It’s just a matter of when.
Erosion has marched right up to the concrete footings of the multimillion-dollar home where it overlooks the bay. Massive sliding doors that used to open onto a wide deck, complete with hot tub, are now barricaded by thin wooden slats that prevent anyone from stepping through and falling 25 feet to the beach below.
The owner knew it. He removed the deck and other parts of the house, including a small tower that held the primary bedroom, before stopping work and falling into a standoff with the town. He’s since sold the place to a salvage company, according to his attorney, that says it won’t pay for work.
Better question: When it crumbles into rubble, are the rich fucks that own it going to clean that shit up, or will that fall on the public’s shoulders?
The article says he sold it to a salvage company that wont pay to remove it, which leaves me confused; does the salvage company not want to remove it because they were told they would get paid for the labour but the rich guy wont pay? or that they bought it and now dont think its worth the price they paid to reclaim the materials?
Obviously that’s going to be the latter option.
Dumb rich people doing dumb rich people shit.
You’d think they’d be rich enough to build a concrete retaining wall.
Its original owners, Mark and Barbara Blasch, sought permission from the commission in 2018 to build a 241-foot-wide seawall to stave off erosion. The commission’s seven members — all volunteers — rejected the seawall on the grounds that it might have unintended effects on the beach and the way water carries nutrients in the bay. They also questioned whether it would actually save the house.
Sounds like they tried and were denied approval. A collapsing house is probably going to have unintended effects on the beach too
Problem was the house was built in 2010. Why did they wait 8 years to ask to build a seawall?
I’d also be very interested to know who in the fuck approved this house to be built on a hill of sand in the first place?
I’m nonfan of rich people, but this is an unfortunate case of fucked if they do, fucked if they don’t (they’ll probably be given the bill for the cleanup).
The environment is fucked enough. Let’s not start pouring concrete in another fragile ecosystem.
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About the only good advice in the Bible. Don’t build on sand!
They built that house on the rock of their faith that climate change was fake news.
