Good CNN look at what is happening to coastal Maine.
The Lobstermen and Fishermen who have traditionally made a living in the area are being driven out by climate driven migration of their target species, while insurance costs to protect their infrastructure on shore have soared out of reach to all but the ultra-wealthy who are replacing fishing shacks and docks with mega mansions.
I spent quite a bit of time on North Haven island in Penobscot Bay, when my son was managing a farm there for several years. The face of the community is being forever altered by the combination of rising seas and weather extremes.
NORTH HAVEN — For more than a century, the Browns have been building and repairing boats from a cavernous post-and-beam shop at the water’s edge of the Fox Island Thoroughfare, but the combination of increasingly severe weather and a steadily rising sea is threatening to wash it away.
But the people of this island, with its 400 year-round residents located about 12 miles east of Rockland, aren’t letting go without a fight. They’ve come together to try to resurrect a boatyard devastated by back-to-back storms, record-setting high tides, and the looming threat of climate change.
“The support has been overwhelming,” said Kim Alexander, a fourth-generation member of the Brown family. “People started showing up before the (first) storm was even done. Young ones, old ones, family, friends, neighbors, old customers, competitors: Everybody’s trying to help us save the place.”
Wednesday’s storm swept through and almost took the waterfront shop where they have been repairing and building boats since 1901. The storm surge knocked out a wall and opened the building to the ocean. The floor buckled. Anything that wasn’t nailed down or stored up high was washed away.
The community descended upon the boatyard to clean up, tie down, shore up or knit together a building that appeared on the verge of collapse before Saturday. At noon, a second storm bore down on the island just as a new moon high tide crested, adding an extra foot of high tide to the 3-foot storm surge.
It felt like the whole island was holding its breath. Some people sat in their cars in the ferry terminal lot, watching the storm surge race through the boat shop and over the pier and floating docks, wondering if they were about to witness a tragic chapter in island history.
Luckily, the southeasterly wind didn’t blow as hard Saturday as it did Wednesday, and the rain felt as if the sky was spitting rather than dumping buckets, islanders said. The building stood. The ocean fell about 5 inches shy of the high water mark left on the outside of the shop wall Wednesday.
Foy E. Brown, a fifth-generation Brown known to all as Little Foy, surveyed the inside of the building Saturday after the storm surge had receded. He joined his father, Foy W. Brown – Big Foy – and Alexander, his aunt, as well as a few of the littlest Browns, inside the shop. “It worked,” Little Foy said, looking around. “It worked because the whole town turned out for us.”
“It feels like we dodged a bullet,” Alexander said. “It’s bad enough as it is, but we could have lost it all.”
So I looked up tidal gauge info on Portland, Maine. From 1912-2022 the sea levels rose a whopping 1.9mm per year…. less than 6″ per century.
Isn’t it amazing how they hoaxed the loss of all of those near-shore buildings? And getting those strong winds to come from the South rather than the Northeast? And the increased heat in the Gulf of Maine must be because of a secret volcanic rift under the sea floor!
Stupid scientists! All they had to do was look up the historic tide gauges to know what was happening! They need more Epoch Times readers to tell them what’s what.
I looked up the tidal gauge records and they show nothing to worry about.
LOL.
What a genius! You can tell from past tidal gauge records what future sea level will be! I look forward to the publication of your paper in a “prestigious” scientific journal.
Pretty amazing how they talked all those lobsters into migrating north …
obviously the lobsters are being paid
There are many phenomena we humans don’t understand, or [worse] misunderstand. There are many potential disasters that could wipe us out or decimate us, but which we can’t control or mitigate. One thing I’ve learned over the past 5 years especially is that experts really don’t know what they’re talking about, and yet we must act. So we get second opinions on medical advice, fire incompetent CEOs, disbar bad lawyers, etc. However, intellectuals (namely professionals whose only products are ideas) are never accountable for their mistakes. Political experts are the worst as they poorer their advice or wronger their predictions, the more prestige they often have.
And then there are climate scientists who spurn actual scientific principals like the scientific method, causality and the 2nd Law and have an unbroken record of wrong predictions but seem impervious to challenge or accountability.
It’s a perfect scam…. a great gig….the ideal means to absolute power over everything.