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1. Devine Lu Linvega (neauoire@merveilles.town)'s status on Saturday, 21-May-2022 05:44:21 UTC Devine Lu Linvega

   This house gets it.

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   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-May-2022 05:44:50 UTC mcc

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     • dragfyre

     @dragfyre @neauoire Every time there's a hurricane or tropical storm (semifrequently) the whole island jumps like 30 feet in one go and there's a whole set of houses that are suddenly on stilts in open ocean

     The rules have some kind of really funny phrasing like "if your house moves onto the beach, you have 30 days to remove it before the state takes possession..."

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   • dragfyre (dragfyre@mastodon.sandwich.net)'s status on Saturday, 21-May-2022 05:44:51 UTC dragfyre

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     @neauoire the more I look at this, the more I wonder why the heck that house existed where it did

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-May-2022 05:44:51 UTC mcc

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     • dragfyre

     @dragfyre @neauoire I don't know where this was taken but Galveston island in Texas is slowly moving north

     It's stable by the seawall on the downtown, but the outskirts of the island are where the nice places for building beachhouses are

     So the people who own the land just build the cheapest houses possible assuming they can rent them to beachgoers until they fall down / the property ceases to exist