Bubba
Feb 18, 2007, 12:15 PM
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Re: [smokesilver] Are the Gulf coast beaches polluted?
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Aren't you glad that you did not retire to Bay Saint Louis?
Yes indeed. One thing about that beautiful old town, with its magnificent bayfront homes and wonderful trees, is that it had been there forever without the devastation brought by Katrina. Also, it was a short drive from New Orleans. Fortunately, I couldnīt afford the waterfront homes there or, for that matter, on the Alabama and Northwest Florida coasts I found desireable. Katrina was a valuable lesson but the sort of phenomenon represented by Katrina also is a constant threat along the Yucatan Caribbean and Gulf coasts. A drive along the beach from Dzilan de Bravo to Chicxulub is instructive of the extensive damage hurricanes can bring no matter where you build in coastal Yucatan and Quintana Roo.
I still remember Camilleīs devastation in the 60s along the Mississippi coast from the time I drove along that coast from Mobile to New Orleans months later. You donīt forget that. I wonder what the hell made me think Bay St. Louis was immune to these killers.
Be that as it may, Wild Bill is right that the Yucatan Gulf Coast is a marvelous place to live/visit and generalizations regarding water pollution are unfair and incorrect. As for hurricane risk, I also used to own a home in the heart of eathhquake prone San Francisco and was there during the huge quake of the 80s. One hell of a scary event that was but I and my home survived. If you want to own a piece of a beautiful place, you take your chances.
Nevertheless, it breaks my heart to see fine old towns like Bay St. Louis, national treasures really, gone with the wind.
(This post was edited by Bubba on Feb 18, 2007, 12:18 PM)
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