A Massachusetts beach community is scrambling after a weekend storm washed away mountains of sand trucked in for a nearly $600,000 dune that was meant to protect homes, roads and other infrastructure.
Should have gone for the pro model. Never pays to cheap out on critical infrastructure.
We do not need to reinvent the wheel, we just need to put money into infrastructure, instead of letting everything age out and crumple under climate disasters.
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A Massachusetts beach community is scrambling after a weekend storm washed away mountains of sand trucked in for a nearly $600,000 dune that was meant to protect homes, roads and other infrastructure.
Should have gone for the pro model. Never pays to cheap out on critical infrastructure.
Maybe, if US leadership bothered to look up from profit-making and political time-wasting, envoys could be sent to tour other countries at the leading edge of innovation in defending themselves from coastal disasters, like [Japan’s seawalls](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna43018489) and [Dutch sea barriers](https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/dutch-sea-dike-along-netherlands-to-protect-against-level-rising-88307499.jpg), neither of which hamper the continual use of their shorelines.
We do not need to reinvent the wheel, we just need to put money into infrastructure, instead of letting everything age out and crumple under climate disasters.