It's a derelict building that really doesn't look much worse than the last time I was there in 1981.
Posted on 10/31/2012 2:32:21 AM PDT by markomalley
Something tells me it will all be rebuilt - much “better” than ever - things like this are always a boon to gentrification projects and enhanced commercialism.
But they can't move back in, until the all that is repaired!
Most of those pictures don’t really look that bad. Lots of sand and some buildings damaged or destroyed. It looks like most homes on the water are still there.
Fires seem to have done most of the really severe damage.
Prayers up.
The worst part in Atlantic City is that when you lose your houses and hotels, you only get half of the value for them.
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I wonder how many of the buildings that remain standing are going to end up being declared a total loss because of water damage. Probably a significant number.
Part of me wonders whether they ever should rebuild some of these areas. New Jersey has a number of developed places where you couldn’t build anything under today’s restrictions related to flood plains.
Code in Florida requires homes built to withstand 120 mph winds. Not much you can do to avoid water damage except to elevate the home.
That question was asked often about parts of New Orleans after Katrina.
Looks a lot like Detroit.
Something tells me it will all be rebuilt - much “better” than ever - things like this are always a boon to gentrification projects and enhanced commercialism.
1. Since I’ve moved to KY we’ve had some serious storms here. Two of the large buildings I pass every day on my way to work were on one side of the freeway when I went to work, and were “mostly” on the other side of the freeway when I went home.
2. Two days ago I watched a History Channel documentary about the 1938 nor’easter.
What made this storm so impressive was simply how many people it affected. But I don’t see it that way. I don’t see the human race as numbers. I see it as individuals. A tragic death in one family is just as bad as a tragic death in a hundred families.
I think in some of those areas you need a “before” and “after” picture to figure out if the hurricane actually did any of the damage.
We are drawn to water like moths to light. Commerce and recreation trumps the nature tax which is extracted every hundred years or so.
And how do you explain Mt. Vesuvius on the Mediterranean Sea?
Humans have been taking calculated risks for eons, but nothing explains the Smart Car and the Segway Scooter but shear folly.
It's a derelict building that really doesn't look much worse than the last time I was there in 1981.
And unless NJ passes emergency legislation, I suspect the real estate taxes and other taxes will remain the same, as if they were ongoing businesses(?) NJ taxes might finish what the storm started.
Thanks Mark!
I think some of these pics are feeding us a line of bull. Some of them. Wasn’t it Rahm Emmanuel who said “Never let a good crisis go to waste”?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yeA_kHHLow
what is stupid is the govmint is gonna pay these people to rebuild on the same spot.
And peeples don’t understand the prob with dat.
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