big thaw coming

 

tee hee... the season of mud is just
around the corner.... (i might just have
to ask which tire should i use)
john
    looking forward to spring...

 



yeah me too.

hottest day of year was yesterday.

if you google, you might find news about the sea level rising in the
part of world I live... There are streets in some towns that are
already gone... Sea invaded houses and shops... 10 years ago, 15
meters of sand. today, sea in your living room...

http://www.ferias.tur.br/admin/cidades/7068/n_Invas%C3%A3o%20do%20mar.jpg

http://www.ferias.tur.br/admin/cidades/8511/n_Invas%C3%A3o%20do%20mar.jpg

-- T

 


i would have melted
(warm blooded northern mamal)


sea rising of land sinking, take you pick...
i'm going with: "waves shifts the sand.....
http://www.marinebio.net/marinescience/03ecology/sbprocesses.htm
drop some junk/rocks off shore to lessen
the impact of the waves and the beach should return.
I've shoveled 30cm of sand out of living rooms...
(my back aches thinking of it)... hurricanes
stir up the muck then flood the area
when the water calms and recedes the muck
is left.... this is fine if you didn't
have anything there but crops... Egyptians
invented advance math to deal with floods
and figuring out property lines after the
waters recited...(it's a sin to take anothers
property, so unless they got it right they were
in big trouble with God)

 


They did that rocks trick on the sea to create sand...

http://wikimapia.org/4825684/Dique-de-Candeias

see the sand? When I was a kid in the 80s, ultralight planes used that
sand stripe as landing area. Then, sea rised and started hitting the
wall. If you scroll further up (north) or down, you'll see that this
part is the part where the continent goes furthest on the sea... About
10 years ago they started building the rock dam. Worked, sort of. It
pushed the problem further north...

You know, my hometown is "Recife", that's "reef" in portuguese. Wonder
why? Because the entire shore is lined with reefs, which are made of
live organisms in a tight symbiotic relation over a rock bed. If you
start pouring granite rocks over it, you are essentially killing a
very delicate and complex habitat. The result is less fish, more
sharks, less people living out of fishing and unpredictable ecologic
catastrophe. They had another of these dams planned but govt. doesn't
allow because of ecologic concerns... This one picture above was made
by an insane mayor. When federal govt. took notice, the thing was 90%
done. The damage on nature was huge with lots of side-effects...


What's amazing is that from my hometown up to four states north
(several thousand kilometers) the same problem happens... I believe in
waves, but I'm seeing first hand a rising of the sea level. If it is
global warming or melting of glaciers, I don't know, but something is
happening the last 20 years and things are getting worse, much much
worse every year.


More from my neighborhood:

http://www2.uol.com.br/JC/_2001/imagens/cd080801a.jpg
http://citybrazil.tempsite.ws/arquivos/imagens/galfotos/gf_imagem_00004306.=
jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v40/Ap_Recife/Skylineupdate30130013.jpg
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/2774/avanamarantesrg1.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t191/Alfenim/Boa%20Viagem/PICT1799.jpg

the last isn't exactly my neighborhood, it's 15km north... The most
popular beach in the state...

-- Tiago

 


nice map


parrot fish make sand when they poop out coral reef
seawalls just slow the movement of the sand that's
already there... the folly of man is to think that he
can control the oceans....


sweet i like reef's any way you say it


<gasp> whose bone head idea was it to cement the reef??


ocean acts like a big old vacuum cleaner
sucking the shore into it's depths...
(stuff runs down hill)... then every once
in a while a big storm washes something
new up on shore...


dude, how do you get any work done living in a place like that??
heck i'd be a lazy beach bum for sure....