Dec - Videos Beach erosion fort lauderdale beach Florida

Thread: South Florida Beach Emergency

WOW !!! I have not been there since I was a kid. I had an aunt and some cousins down there.

OP ... I wondering if the water level is still so high that it's damaging the shore line even further?

Does the local news say why the water level is high enough to damage the shore line?

Any sign of the water levels dropping?

So many questions.. we hear absolutely nothing here about this at all.

what I saw was those little life guard houses? they have moved all of them to the wall they use to be out about 25 feet out from the wall and have pushed large amounts of sand against the walls.. where its not so bad...

if you google a map fort lauderdale beach it starts from sunrise blvd the people effected would be people who own homes there its not hit the places with businesses YET

the tourists that are here now are from Canada...

next big thing will be the air and sea show..

:dfgdfgggg:

thats usually done at sunrise blvd I have NO idea what they will do now...


someone here told me they heard on big 105 radio station morning talk

that they should sink a ship out there and create a barrier... the navy would do it..

it would help with the beach erosion

There wa a meeting here in St Johns County/Fl;agler Beach addressing the issue of beach erosion and the future tonight. it does not look good, especially for Real estate industry, that's a fact. What is now beachfront they said may be 10 feet under water by 2020. They are beginning to formulate new zoning plans etc for these counties in the future. Those that think this is a hoax or a joke are lucky they don't have oceanfront footage. Its not going to be worth a wooden nickel soon. This has been addressed in the media here in Fl for 6 months now.

What I'm trying to understand, is why is this not affecting the entire Florida coast? I cannot figure out why it's only affecting a specific stretch of the coast without affecting other areas.. are the other areas higher than the Fort Lauderdale shore line?

good question, twocents, I'd like to hear from other parts of the coast.

My 2cents, I believe it their CHOICE not to speak of it. These meetings, let me make this perfectly clear, were NOT to discuss 'beach erosion' as we have in the past. They were warning/speculating on RISING OCEANS!

I was in Florida in '92 and '94.

Being Dutch and tought that the sea is a monster of mother nature, I was so surprised to find NO barrier what so ever to protect the people on the shoreline or deeper inland for that matter.

Having no protection what so ever is going to stack the odds against you over time. It is just a matter of time.

300feet wide beaches can be gone quick if the sea is mad enough.

Once water reaches the foundations then it is all over for the coastline properties.

The view might not be so nice, but really you need to start making barriers of any kind before time runs out on you.

Oh hell no.

That will not help with beach erosion. It will cause erosion, by creating a deep pit between the sunken ship and the shoreline.

There's so much stupid...please make it stop.

wow....watching the two videos simultaneously really paints a clear picture to the damage/erosion

hmmm

just hm??

ok

Hmmmmmm

Eventually if the conditions are right it will happen most anywhere on a sand beach coastline.

The old A1A is out in the ocean in Delray Beach.

Did they bring in sand over the years to create or maintain the Ft. Lauderdale beach?

I know some of the Florida shoreline is coral reef which would be more stable than loose sand that is easily dislodged and washed away, but is that even what's happening? Is it just sand being washed away (after all these years of NOT washing away...)

It must be happening on other stretches of coastline, it defies logic otherwise, doesn't it? WTF, why is this happening?

Whatever normally holds things together is gone.


Photos
[link to www.sun-sentinel.com]

How long has it been underwater, do you know?

This is amazing/fascinating and frightening.

I lived in Flagler County and I remember when the ocean was tearing up a1a around 14th st in Flagler Beach. Haven't been back in 8 years. Is it getting worse now?

Wow, that is incredibly sad, I feel bad for all those people. Hard to believe this would happen on our lifetime, the future, yes, now, sad and devastating.

It was a long time ago. I am thinking the 30s or 40s but that may not be correct.

it's called nature, the only constant - nothing stays constant.

sure, there are cycles though until the sun roasting this place finally.

omg, a sidewalk is gone...

On Pensacola Beach hurricane Ivan actually washed out the road and breached the barrier Island so there was a new mini inlet.

If its a sand beach not much to stop massive erosion.

I think they plugged the hole and rebuilt the road.
It will blow out again one day.

It does look from your videos OP, that the sea level has dropped back some, as you can actually see the beach and sand there along A1A. I wonder if they would be able to re-engineer the bottoms of the buildings to act as pillars, allowing the water underneath? Cars would have to elsewhere, boats would ferry you in and out of your condo.

Yes this was my question too.

As I said in the other thread, I checked several beach cams state wide and none seemed to be anywhere near this level of erosion.

Very strange. Perhaps because of the inlet there in Fort Lauderdale?