Building homes on coastal edges doesn’t make sense to me. Hurricanes and normal erosion can wipe them out, yet people who can afford the gorgeous views get insurance payouts and do it all over again.
Yeah because they built their houses on dirt and not a hard surface like concrete and also their houses are built out of wood so yeah, it’s a bad ideia
@St0rm Ranger A famine? With more CO2 in the atmosphere than ever and new GMOs, pesticides and fertilizers coming out on a monthly basis we will have a food surplus in 20-30 years.
It's just rich people building their mansions in stupid places, as usual. They love to build on the water, so they get flooded or eroded all the time. In Ottawa, where I used to live, the city paid to dynamite the ice on the river every year at enormous cost, and despite devastating fish populations, because rich people insisted on building their houses right next to the water, and the ice would cause flooding every year. What rich people want, rich people get.
NoJusticeNoPeace don’t forget to do research on how those rich people have insurance coverage and how much they get in returns! They aren’t that stupid to throw money, they know all these things , that’s why rich people keep getting richer
These rich people are expecting the authorities to pay the cost of fixing this. Build a sea wall to shore up their properties. I hope it doesn't happen. This part of the coast is no longer suitable for housing.
The problem is it happened before in the 70s, the government here in Australia warned them and helped save their houses. Then they went and built them again in a stupid place, and expect the government to help them again.
People that live in Wamberal are not rich its a small town of just 6,298 people in between the two most populated cities of Sydney and Newcastle . 85% of Australians live on the coast. And Climate change doesnt care if you are rich or poor it will take us all.
I would feel bad, but I know some of those houses have either private beaches or probably try to prevent the public from accessing the beaches and then i don't feel as bad, keep the beaches free of homes and make them available to the public
Zee km a local and it is a beach. The OP was right, these mansions block public access to the beach, and are known to give you death stares if they see you in “their” backyard. Zero sympathy for these people, besides their innocent children and animals.
Since the owners of those homes are rich, I'm sure the government will spend plenty of working class people's taxes on saving them.... See the government does redistribute wealth, just in the wrong direction
End this police corruption insurance doesn’t cover erosion as it is deemed an act of nature. These people built there knowing the risks without insurance and now want the government at tax payer’s expense to bail them out. I’m a local, most of us hope they don’t. They’re blocking public access to a public beach with their pointless mansions that are now spewing asbestos into our oceans. Bulldoze, restore the dunes so the beach can also be restored. They can build elsewhere, hopefully in a better location next time.
Ben shapiro is an intellectual fraud he only debates little kids. He doesnt debate intellectuals that know their stuff he has been challanged many times by mohammed hijab
There is no way the owners of those properties weren't told about the dangers of building in such places... They knew the risks! It's jus so infuriating knowing tht they still insisted on continuing with the projects....
This wasn’t directly caused by global warming but I agree. We need to prevent a warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. We’re at a warming of 1.2°C right now.
@@PremierCCGuyMMXVI you do realise that in the medieval era it was CONSIDERABLY warmer than it is now ... right? it was so warm that people were able to grow lush grapes as far up north as in Scotland and have two harvests a year.
@@Mrs.Karen_Walker actually that’s a myth. The medieval “warm” period was only a regional phenomenon and at most was 0.5°C warmer than the late 20th century globally. Actually a global temperature reconstruction study came out back in November and looked at global temperatures the past 20,000 years, global temperatures now are the highest in over 100,000 years at least. The last 10,000 years have been very stable. The RWP, MWP, and LIA were regional events and weren’t the big climatic changes skeptics talk about. Even if it was warmer than today (it clearly isn’t), how does that change anything about humans causing modern global warming or change anything in the IPCC report? Also grapes are grown in the British isles today.
@@joeyork9891 From the situation shown in the video it looks like the houses will just be abandoned. If the local authorities were going to get involved, they are a little late. But if they were going to add some erosion protection then yes, the way to do it would be through taxes, but preferably via the local municipality and paid for through property taxes which should be set higher for water front property.
complete BS - there is nor "erosion protection" against the ocean it you did build on a sandy cliff. It was tried in multiple places and may slow down the process at very high cost, but the result is the same: You loose your property to the sea.
@@mucsalto8377 Of course there is erosion protection. Its not difficult, just not cheap. Unfortunately it seems politics was the main cause of it not being done in this instance. However, it seems they are now starting to do something (after a couple of houses nearly fell in the sea.
Random dude 2019: "Guys, I moved, I've got a gorgeous garden along the seaside! Come check it out!" Same dude 2020: "uhm... Hurry up. The garden is almost gone. 😩😩
Yeah I just can’t feel bad for rich people. If they didn’t see that coming they had no grasp of what living on the coast would entail, before buying their enormous houses.
So many questions. The big one is; How did the owners get the loan and insurance to build in that location? The little one is; why would a civil authority permit building on unsuitable land? (Well, graft and corruption of public officials is the best answer.)
The sea, and the almighty power of the sea, is not to be frowned upon by taunting it, like building houses along an eroding coast. I know. I'm from Holland...
All the developers and home builders should be charged for their hugely poor planning. All the lots are so huge that the house could have been built on the other side of the lot and would be fine for another 50 years, though they should never have built there in the first place.
@MKMW C Here's the question. Who pays for this mistake? Do you think that I should pay for it? The government is clearly going to get involved in this. Therefore, I am paying for this. If I am paying for this, should someone not be held responsible for this? Whether it is a city planner, the homebuilders, or the homeowners, someone should have to pay for this. If you say the insurance will pay it, it will not. The last time we had major flooding in our area, many homes were written off. I lived in a condo seven stories up and was completely unaffected by the flooding, yet my insurance for my condo went up nearly 20% after the flood (condo not in flood plains, not affected in any way). How about you go in single handed, and complete the demolition of all these premium houses, and pay the owners insurance premiums out? That is the only way it won't affect me.
In the 70's houses that were build here were damaged by erosion but these special people expect the tax payers to rescue them. 2000 years ago some bloke said don't build on the sand but would these people listed.
More $ than sense. Insurance didn’t cover as erosion is deemed an act of nature, that’s why they want the government at tax payer’s expense to bail them out.
It’s payback for the stolen land. The ocean is taking it back. He Avenges = Heaven.
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When you strip the land of all the trees there is nothing holding in the soil. You can put an many rocks down as you want, once the soil goes. its goodbye mansions. Same issues they run into in cali with land slides. There is nothing holding the ground in place. Trees/ferns/bushes do their part to hold things together
Seeing what has been done over hundreds of years by un indigenous people and the advancement of technology hurting the sky,water's and lands. It's all prophetic!
I don’t feel thaaaaaaaat bad for the mansion-owners... I feel bad for the Earth and what we are doing to it. The poor people who rely on farm land that is no longer producing, those living inland that are flooding, those living in the Amazon that has been burning ... that hurts more than seeing this.
"Look at this way Kylie, when the cliff collapses, we'll be the first ones on the beach!" "Bonza, Greg, You're the most optimistic wanka' I've ever met!" "Fair Dinkum Daarlin'!"
People keep building near the sea, rivers even volcanoes....and then this kind of things happens and it's all cries....well....go figure! Try to think twice before you buy a house near that beauuutiful coastal line or that beauuuuuuutifu lake prone to flooding .
Omg!!!! What is this erosion thing.....I better research it........oh......its a natural process that has happened for all of earth/land history!!! Who knew....
@@UntaintedIndigo yeah, no. Gimme a source, because CERN has nothing to do with the climate. Throwing particles together just causes localized radiation and maybe photon emission, not hearing up the entire planet.
SanDiego’s bluffs have a clay layer about 15’ down from the top of the bluff. The people living on the bluffs water their lawns. Water goes down to clay layer, and lubricates it. Wind erosion then undercuts the bluff top, until the angle is such that the whole layer slips off, followed by the condo. It also seemed that putting large rip-rap at the base only focused the wave power into channels cutting caves into the bluff.
Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock. Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell-and great was its fall. - Matthew 7:24-27,
The sad thing is that they shunned the Bible They believe in their own might I wondered why they want the Central Coast Council to waste tax payers' money on protection for homes built on Sand dunes. Time will tell The Council cannot keep fighting the Ocean.
The corrupt officials who green lighted these projects need to face lawsuits and criminal charges. This isn't global warming, this is destruction of the coastline. The builds sped up the erosion. I say the buyers of those homes deserve everything they get. Suits them perfectly.
To bad so sad. It'll be uncovered hundreds of years from now, and they'll study the people who used to live there. Says nothing about human ingenuity. As if we cant build the amazing structures somewhere else. Its more sad for the ocean and its organisms that will accumulate all of the human waste.
This is happening around the world, Pacific coastal California, Puerto Rico, Mexico, we built houses on the beach with so much safe land built on, we took a part of space from the sea and now he is claiming it, this it was to be seen, we always think of ourselves and not of the environment. We build where we want, regardless of the consequenses in the future.
I've seen that happen live in morocco, it just hit a small beach cafe, but it was 100m away from the normal level of the sea, one wave, two waves, three waves, it was half gone
Have a look at Prince of Wales Drive, Port Botany, Australia, the sea wall protecting the Fluid Terminal built about 50 years ago hasn't moved. About 2 Klms long, links together like Lego, too big just can't move. This would be a big commitment however, would work. Each piece weights a few tons with not enough surface area for the sea to move it. There's thousands of tons of concrete all sliding together.
I hope Gosford council can help these residents. (Engineers). Upsetting to see residents having to deal with this "actions of the sea". Good luck seaside residents!!!
I lived there for almost 30 years and it happened twice ( 74 and 78 ). What is sad is rich greedy and stupid people don't learn from the past. Instead there must be 30 more houses built in a known area for erosion. No sympathy
I never feel bad for people that build their houses in stupid places. I feel bad for all of us that pay 10's of thousands of dollars in homeowners insurance and will never make a claim.
I live at Wamberal and the residences had paid for a sea wall over 30 years ago. The council levied them for years and gave them nothing in return. Now the council says they can not build their own sea walls without council involvement. The local government strategy for climate change is "coastal retreat" pure negligence
I thought they were told in the 70s not to build there by council after houses fell into the ocean due to erosion, but they took the council to the land and environmental court who overturned the decision. There was a government report conducted in 2018 where findings concluded that a wall would destroy the beach by 2064, not to mention the effects it would have on the tide elsewhere. Insurance doesn’t even cover their homes as erosion is deemed an act of nature. As a local, I hope we don’t foot the bill for their silly choices.
The owner of the houses can afford houses with that view, they can afford insurance. Their luxury will drive the insurance premium for those who struggle. It's the same wheel turning for the rich.
Surely they must have realized that the sea would one day take back the land. They enjoyed their coastal views for a time and now it is time to let it go. I know I would be very upset by this stunning turn of events. The same thing occurred in some coastal areas of California.
Building homes on coastal edges doesn’t make sense to me. Hurricanes and normal erosion can wipe them out, yet people who can afford the gorgeous views get insurance payouts and do it all over again.
Well when you wealthy what can u really do but use money selfishly right 😑 that the world we live on.
leicanoct I’m not sure the “good foundation” will keep 80 feet of soil underneath that foundation from eroding...
Erosion is often not covered by insurance.
Yeah because they built their houses on dirt and not a hard surface like concrete and also their houses are built out of wood so yeah, it’s a bad ideia
Rich people
I mean geographically, this was a terrible place to build a home in the first place
The foolish man built his house upon sand.
And ironically it was the most expensive place to build a home
I literally thought the exact same thing
@St0rm Ranger A famine? With more CO2 in the atmosphere than ever and new GMOs, pesticides and fertilizers coming out on a monthly basis we will have a food surplus in 20-30 years.
Aaron Neu
Increased heat, water tables falling, and species resistant to herbicides and pesticides are harbingers of what is coming.
It's just rich people building their mansions in stupid places, as usual. They love to build on the water, so they get flooded or eroded all the time. In Ottawa, where I used to live, the city paid to dynamite the ice on the river every year at enormous cost, and despite devastating fish populations, because rich people insisted on building their houses right next to the water, and the ice would cause flooding every year. What rich people want, rich people get.
NoJusticeNoPeace don’t forget to do research on how those rich people have insurance coverage and how much they get in returns! They aren’t that stupid to throw money, they know all these things , that’s why rich people keep getting richer
These rich people are expecting the authorities to pay the cost of fixing this. Build a sea wall to shore up their properties. I hope it doesn't happen. This part of the coast is no longer suitable for housing.
The problem is it happened before in the 70s, the government here in Australia warned them and helped save their houses. Then they went and built them again in a stupid place, and expect the government to help them again.
" What rich people want, rich people get" and seldom what they deserve.
@leicanoct It doesn't matter. The shoreline is being eroded by higher sea levels and larger storms due to Global Warming.
I don't feel bad for people with more money than me feeling the effects of the world. It's those with less than me I'm concerned about.
They thought those little rock walls at the bottom would save them. The ocean has been sucking the sand out from under them for a mile.
I laughed when I saw the sandbags as well mate 😂
So sad for these very rich people and their loss of ocean front property
My thoughts exactly
Meanwhile, every homeowner everywhere sees their insurance rates tick upwards, even if they've never in their lives had a claim.
People that live in Wamberal are not rich its a small town of just 6,298 people in between the two most populated cities of Sydney and Newcastle . 85% of Australians live on the coast.
And Climate change doesnt care if you are rich or poor it will take us all.
We should start a gofundme for these poor poor billionaires
@@professionalbozo4396
None of them are billionaires its a small town and cheap houses.
I would feel bad, but I know some of those houses have either private beaches or probably try to prevent the public from accessing the beaches and then i don't feel as bad, keep the beaches free of homes and make them available to the public
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It not even a beach dude 🤦♂️
@@zee9709 Then leave it alone, dude.
Zee km a local and it is a beach. The OP was right, these mansions block public access to the beach, and are known to give you death stares if they see you in “their” backyard. Zero sympathy for these people, besides their innocent children and animals.
@@jade5615 for real? Are they rich or middle class? Just curious
Since the owners of those homes are rich, I'm sure the government will spend plenty of working class people's taxes on saving them.... See the government does redistribute wealth, just in the wrong direction
Capitalism*
End this police corruption insurance doesn’t cover erosion as it is deemed an act of nature. These people built there knowing the risks without insurance and now want the government at tax payer’s expense to bail them out. I’m a local, most of us hope they don’t. They’re blocking public access to a public beach with their pointless mansions that are now spewing asbestos into our oceans. Bulldoze, restore the dunes so the beach can also be restored. They can build elsewhere, hopefully in a better location next time.
@@cesartavarezcorp.7959 Wealth distribution through means of government to individual has a name: cronyism.
@@dyamineu5246 ooooo thx
Why would you even build a house on a plateau that's near the ocean?
Status symbol
It's all good, they can just sell their homes and move.
Sincerely:
Ben Shapiro
Lol Kanye West 2020!
Ben shapiro is an intellectual fraud he only debates little kids. He doesnt debate intellectuals that know their stuff he has been challanged many times by mohammed hijab
@@korsol who's mohammed hijab?
Исаак Кузнецов who are you?
@@korsol lmao and you think Mohammad hijab is an intellectual? Lmao
I'm glad everyone here is in agreement that these people had it coming, more $ than brains
That is not nice. Karma will get you.
lol ok patrick, keep being a simp for the ultra rich
Jealousy is a horrible thing.
No they didn't!!! The ocean came forward to their properties.
@@Chemdawg0360 You are jealous and not seeing what actually happened.
Awe, some ruined homes, yet they ruined the beach by building those homes there. Reclaim your land Mother Nature!
There is no way the owners of those properties weren't told about the dangers of building in such places... They knew the risks! It's jus so infuriating knowing tht they still insisted on continuing with the projects....
"Shocking" is not the word for something that is inevitable to anyone with common sense.
they have enough money.
I hope that they dispose of there houses properly.
Didn't John Stossel like deliberately buy a house on the shore that he knew would not last but got way over it's actual value through insurance?
It’s not shocking. It’s natural.
This is why we need bold climate action! ✊🏼✊🏼
This wasn’t directly caused by global warming but I agree. We need to prevent a warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. We’re at a warming of 1.2°C right now.
@@PremierCCGuyMMXVI you do realise that in the medieval era it was CONSIDERABLY warmer than it is now ... right? it was so warm that people were able to grow lush grapes as far up north as in Scotland and have two harvests a year.
@@Mrs.Karen_Walker actually that’s a myth. The medieval “warm” period was only a regional phenomenon and at most was 0.5°C warmer than the late 20th century globally. Actually a global temperature reconstruction study came out back in November and looked at global temperatures the past 20,000 years, global temperatures now are the highest in over 100,000 years at least. The last 10,000 years have been very stable. The RWP, MWP, and LIA were regional events and weren’t the big climatic changes skeptics talk about. Even if it was warmer than today (it clearly isn’t), how does that change anything about humans causing modern global warming or change anything in the IPCC report?
Also grapes are grown in the British isles today.
The homes were clearly too cheap for the owners to invest in proper erosion protection.
Us taxpayers will pay
@@joeyork9891 From the situation shown in the video it looks like the houses will just be abandoned. If the local authorities were going to get involved, they are a little late. But if they were going to add some erosion protection then yes, the way to do it would be through taxes, but preferably via the local municipality and paid for through property taxes which should be set higher for water front property.
complete BS - there is nor "erosion protection" against the ocean it you did build on a sandy cliff. It was tried in multiple places and may slow down the process at very high cost, but the result is the same: You loose your property to the sea.
@@mucsalto8377 Of course there is erosion protection. Its not difficult, just not cheap. Unfortunately it seems politics was the main cause of it not being done in this instance. However, it seems they are now starting to do something (after a couple of houses nearly fell in the sea.
That's not even your land they belong to the aboriginals.
I can’t agree more.
true
Aboriginals are stewards of the lands, not owners.
Natives lost that battle in US too. might as well move on unfortunately. :/
Oh gawwwwd
Oceanview with the ocean in your back bedroom. Literally.
Nature be like: No more backyard for you
Why I can't pay my insurance.
Random dude 2019: "Guys, I moved, I've got a gorgeous garden along the seaside! Come check it out!"
Same dude 2020: "uhm... Hurry up. The garden is almost gone. 😩😩
The garden is almost gone, but on the plus side the tomatoes are already salted
Rich people, I gotta build and block everyone else from enjoying the view. beach or whatever. Thank you Nature.
Yeah I just can’t feel bad for rich people. If they didn’t see that coming they had no grasp of what living on the coast would entail, before buying their enormous houses.
Everyone knew it would happen but the council wouldn't let them protect the houses
No one thought it would happen this fast
the ppl living there are not rich. these are low value properties.
For millennia the beach has ebbed and flowed and surged where she needed to go. For a hundred years rich Australians thought they knew better.
Why would you build a house by the beach like that you just calling mother nature to kill you while you sleep 🙄🙄🙄😑😑😑
So many questions. The big one is; How did the owners get the loan and insurance to build in that location? The little one is; why would a civil authority permit building on unsuitable land? (Well, graft and corruption of public officials is the best answer.)
No one should be allowed to build on coastlines or riverbanks.......it should be left open for all people to enjoy as public parks and such
Now that's what you call living on the edge
They’ll have a great view of the water after a few more years
this is natural, not our fault... well, building so close to the coast, maybe, is our fault.
That's what happens when you build your house at the edge of a cliff
They did NOT build their homes on the edge of a cliff. The ocean eroded the land back to them.
The edge of the cliff was a good distance away, when these houses were built.
@@mariannesouza8326 Not true. The houses were always far too close to the edge.
The sea, and the almighty power of the sea, is not to be frowned upon by taunting it, like building houses along an eroding coast. I know. I'm from Holland...
All the developers and home builders should be charged for their hugely poor planning. All the lots are so huge that the house could have been built on the other side of the lot and would be fine for another 50 years, though they should never have built there in the first place.
@MKMW C Here's the question. Who pays for this mistake? Do you think that I should pay for it? The government is clearly going to get involved in this. Therefore, I am paying for this. If I am paying for this, should someone not be held responsible for this? Whether it is a city planner, the homebuilders, or the homeowners, someone should have to pay for this. If you say the insurance will pay it, it will not. The last time we had major flooding in our area, many homes were written off. I lived in a condo seven stories up and was completely unaffected by the flooding, yet my insurance for my condo went up nearly 20% after the flood (condo not in flood plains, not affected in any way). How about you go in single handed, and complete the demolition of all these premium houses, and pay the owners insurance premiums out? That is the only way it won't affect me.
In the 70's houses that were build here were damaged by erosion but these special people expect the tax payers to rescue them. 2000 years ago some bloke said don't build on the sand but would these people listed.
Those people are fine. They obviously have insurance and lots of money. Who really cares about them.
More $ than sense. Insurance didn’t cover as erosion is deemed an act of nature, that’s why they want the government at tax payer’s expense to bail them out.
Why the sad music? Its natural that this happens when you build near the ocean
What the sea wants, the sea gets!
I can already imagine as a home owner how devastating this is. This is your home and now you have some tough decisions to do
If this your home you can easily buy another one
Nature > Humans
It’s arrogant to build homes in these places.
It’s payback for the stolen land. The ocean is taking it back. He Avenges = Heaven.
When you strip the land of all the trees there is nothing holding in the soil. You can put an many rocks down as you want, once the soil goes. its goodbye mansions. Same issues they run into in cali with land slides. There is nothing holding the ground in place. Trees/ferns/bushes
do their part to hold things together
This is why Geography is rather quite important. How many of us made sand castles on the beach only for them to get washed away?
Seeing what has been done over hundreds of years by un indigenous people and the advancement of technology hurting the sky,water's and lands. It's all prophetic!
I don’t feel thaaaaaaaat bad for the mansion-owners... I feel bad for the Earth and what we are doing to it. The poor people who rely on farm land that is no longer producing, those living inland that are flooding, those living in the Amazon that has been burning ... that hurts more than seeing this.
This is the price you gotta pay for not listening to your science teacher 😂😂😂
"Look at this way Kylie, when the cliff collapses, we'll be the first ones on the beach!" "Bonza, Greg, You're the most optimistic wanka' I've ever met!" "Fair Dinkum Daarlin'!"
Happens everywhere when building on the edge of water.
The Earth is a dynamic place
People keep building near the sea, rivers even volcanoes....and then this kind of things happens and it's all cries....well....go figure!
Try to think twice before you buy a house near that beauuutiful coastal line or that beauuuuuuutifu lake prone to flooding .
Omg!!!! What is this erosion thing.....I better research it........oh......its a natural process that has happened for all of earth/land history!!! Who knew....
In a few decades it'll all be under water.
No, sooner than that. Thank cern.
@@UntaintedIndigo Cern? What does Cern have to do with it?
kirknay, research it and you’ll know.
@@UntaintedIndigo yeah, no. Gimme a source, because CERN has nothing to do with the climate. Throwing particles together just causes localized radiation and maybe photon emission, not hearing up the entire planet.
Ocean front property finally I can afford low cost property comes with a snorkel and fins
This is definitely a problem. Not every one weather event is caused by global warming. But climate change is making these events more likely.
This incident happened in 1978 in the exact same location. Not due to climate change or whatever. This is Mother Nature simply taking what’s hers
@@jade5615 re-read my comment
"Blah blah blah climate change"
No.. you built your house on the edge of a cliff.
My heart is bleeding for those rich ppl and their mansions 😭😭😭
Anyone else watched this video all the way through, just to see one of those houses slide off the hill...and was disappointed that it never happened?
SanDiego’s bluffs have a clay layer about 15’ down from the top of the bluff. The people living on the bluffs water their lawns. Water goes down to clay layer, and lubricates it. Wind erosion then undercuts the bluff top, until the angle is such that the whole layer slips off, followed by the condo.
It also seemed that putting large rip-rap at the base only focused the wave power into channels cutting caves into the bluff.
Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock. Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell-and great was its fall.
- Matthew 7:24-27,
The sad thing is that they shunned the Bible
They believe in their own might
I wondered why they want the Central Coast Council to waste tax payers' money on protection for homes built on Sand dunes.
Time will tell
The Council cannot keep fighting the Ocean.
It’s called karma.
The corrupt officials who green lighted these projects need to face lawsuits and criminal charges.
This isn't global warming, this is destruction of the coastline. The builds sped up the erosion. I say the buyers of those homes deserve everything they get.
Suits them perfectly.
Insurance companies are crying right now
Shocker, costal area eroded by the ocean...
To bad so sad. It'll be uncovered hundreds of years from now, and they'll study the people who used to live there. Says nothing about human ingenuity. As if we cant build the amazing structures somewhere else. Its more sad for the ocean and its organisms that will accumulate all of the human waste.
This is happening around the world, Pacific coastal California, Puerto Rico, Mexico, we built houses on the beach with so much safe land built on, we took a part of space from the sea and now he is claiming it, this it was to be seen, we always think of ourselves and not of the environment. We build where we want, regardless of the consequenses in the future.
As an Australian I agree with all these comments 👇 the houses on the video were literally built on a sand dunes 🤦♀️
Hope they enjoy that coastal sinking feeling. Yikes! Hope they are safe.
I've seen that happen live in morocco, it just hit a small beach cafe, but it was 100m away from the normal level of the sea, one wave, two waves, three waves, it was half gone
One day mother nature says not too close. The sea claims what belongs to ..
So sorry for our Australian friends and sorry for the no sympathy comments!
"Oh you'll love this property, it stretches way out into the ocean!! more and more each day!"
what's jarring about it? dont build your home on the edge of a cliff with an ocean under it.
Beautiful view
Mother Nature is beautiful 💙
@@mixxi996 yeah if only there have been warnings for years about oceans levels rising then these people could have done something.
Michelle Davies think positive will help you feel better and GOD bless 🙏
@@arbCannons3395 what about the children that have no say in where their parents choose to live
Michelle Davies, we all are going to die soon or later. You can’t escape it.
Those people did not build on the beach. The Ocean eroded the beach and came onto their property. Go back 10 - 20 years and see how far it was then.
Have a look at Prince of Wales Drive, Port Botany, Australia, the sea wall protecting the Fluid Terminal built about 50 years ago hasn't moved. About 2 Klms long, links together like Lego, too big just can't move. This would be a big commitment however, would work. Each piece weights a few tons with not enough surface area for the sea to move it. There's thousands of tons of concrete all sliding together.
Oh poor aristocratic, million dollar summer homes
Sad situation. Extremely expensive either way but remediate the shoreline or abandon the property. 😔
Rich ppl must be terrified by soil erosion...
I stay away from other countries,ocean and states because I get home sick and one never knows what might happen outside your house
Hey, But We Love That Ocean View!!!! Gotta have that ocean view, and you got it.
Those people are literally living on the edge!
Coastal erosion, that new phenomenon invented by Nature in 2011, is indeed shocking.
Love how they all have those handy little flights of steps down to their private beach 🏖️
It's a public beach
That's scary poor people
Property values of the houses across the street just increased.
The houses on the other side of the street will be on the edge of the cliff in 50 years' time...
wamberal is next to terrigal an affluent beach resort community, property on the water in the sydney central coast area is never cheap, NEVER EVER
I hope Gosford council can help these residents. (Engineers).
Upsetting to see residents having to deal with this "actions of the sea".
Good luck seaside residents!!!
Agree with the comments about this being a poor place to build. The topography looks very loose/ weak although 100% feel sorry for owners
The house with no rocks at the front is paying the price !
No one:
Palpatine: Gooooooooooooooooooooooood
I lived there for almost 30 years and it happened twice ( 74 and 78 ). What is sad is rich greedy and stupid people don't learn from the past. Instead there must be 30 more houses built in a known area for erosion. No sympathy
It doesn't take a genius to know that's a bad place to build a house
I never feel bad for people that build their houses in stupid places. I feel bad for all of us that pay 10's of thousands of dollars in homeowners insurance and will never make a claim.
I live at Wamberal and the residences had paid for a sea wall over 30 years ago. The council levied them for years and gave them nothing in return. Now the council says they can not build their own sea walls without council involvement. The local government strategy for climate change is "coastal retreat"
pure negligence
I thought they were told in the 70s not to build there by council after houses fell into the ocean due to erosion, but they took the council to the land and environmental court who overturned the decision. There was a government report conducted in 2018 where findings concluded that a wall would destroy the beach by 2064, not to mention the effects it would have on the tide elsewhere. Insurance doesn’t even cover their homes as erosion is deemed an act of nature. As a local, I hope we don’t foot the bill for their silly choices.
This area has been known locally as “the ruins” for decades for this exact reason. Wise man does not build on the sand.
@@jade5615 Rich men do
Now they will learn
The owner of the houses can afford houses with that view, they can afford insurance.
Their luxury will drive the insurance premium for those who struggle.
It's the same wheel turning for the rich.
Dead coral, massive wildfires, huge erosion, Australia is like Ground Zero for climate change. :(
Nice captures!
Surely they must have realized that the sea would one day take back the land. They enjoyed their coastal views for a time and now it is time to let it go. I know I would be very upset by this stunning turn of events. The same thing occurred in some coastal areas of California.
Couldn't they have salvaged the building materials and give them to people who need materials for their own homes?!