I used to live in the Jersey Shore in Ventnor which I am sure along with Atlantic City was very hard hit by Sandy! I used to have nightmares of waking up and the island being surrounded by water, and I lived on the second floor!
I moved quickly to May's Landing and eventually Egg Harbor City away from the shore! I never anticipated something like Sandy but I always worried about living too close to the shore, any shore! We now live in Deerfield Beach (Florida Shore) but it's about 4-5 miles inland away from the shore!
I've always tried to move away from where hurricanes tend to be destructive, earthquakes tend to happen, fires tend to destroy, Tornadoes destroy cities or water tends to move things believed unmovable!I keep moving! I imagine eventually we will stay long enough in one place where we may face a disaster but until now they have happened to places we either lived after or before the disaster! We like many American's have been fortunate!
Sometimes the best view in the world can disappear in a blink of an eye! How pleasurable it is to see such a view and go home to not such a pleasant one!Sometimes we pay for the risks we take, living at water level has it's disadvantages even though they may be every century!
Global warming will cause more destruction as time moves on and we all will face it one time or another. Some may be lucky enough not tto ever see such destruction if they just keep on moving maybe avoiding what Sandy just delivered!
Dr Q
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