Build a bridge?

In fact, no one can get to these houses.

if only there were some vehicle which was suited for operation on water

bootstraps...

if you keep bailing idiots like these out, you reinforce their beliefs that the private industry and ownership is Baby Jesus....They never see the negative consequences to their BS.

NFA: That's odd, these people have money to build million dollar vacation homes but for some reason they can't collectively raise enough money to fix their road.


Rent a bulldozer and buy a bunch of gravel? At least they'll have access...

Rodanthe's kind of a shiat hole too, I doubt they're worth that much....there's more RV spots for rent than houses for rent in the summer. One family owns a good portion of the real estate down there as well, so there's definitely money to go towards it. Those houses are also right across the street from where Nights in Rodanthe was filmed.

mavexe: NFA: That's odd, these people have money to build million dollar vacation homes but for some reason they can't collectively raise enough money to fix their road.


Rent a bulldozer and buy a bunch of gravel? At least they'll have access...

Rodanthe's kind of a shiat hole too, I doubt they're worth that much....there's more RV spots for rent than houses for rent in the summer. One family owns a good portion of the real estate down there as well, so there's definitely money to go towards it. Those houses are also right across the street from where Nights in Rodanthe was filmed.

Bunch of Teabaggers, Huh? Serves 'em right

I say, let them crash

got a bridge i wanna sell ya

edmo: It occurs to me a bunch of not-so-rich homeowners would probably have already done a lot of the work themselves with their own equipment and labor. Working people tend to know how to do that kind of thing.

CSB

I was talking to my team one day about replacing the alternator in my car. For me, it was a one hour job and I was on my way. My boss (who naturally makes triple what I make, yet has no clue what my job entails) looked at me like I was a wizard and said, "Yeah I couldn't even find the alternator in my car if you held a gun to my head. I always have my mechanic fix stuff for me." The best part was that he seemed PROUD of (what I consider) his ignorance of basic mechanics - like he was somehow better than me for knowing less than I do and being able to fend for myself in a pinch.

All those years of delivering pizzas are paying off. :)

/CSB
//My post probably makes no sense - I'm a little drunk
///Eff it, it's my birthday.

Considering most of these are investment properties, and they charge well over $2000 a WEEK to rent them, I guess that they should have enough cash laying around to pay for the repairs. If the don't, bummer. It was a bad investment..

I have actually stayed in the most northern oceanfront house in Rodanthe. It was moved a year or two ago because it was almost in the water and for some reason the house appearing in a movie made it worthy of preserving. My main point is that the actual owners of property on the Outer Banks are either rich people or heavily overleveraged upper middle class folks - both of whom should have made a more stable investment. They will probably get bailed out though. If they don't the state risks a large devaluation of property in Dare county due to the reality of building luxury homes on a sand-bar becomes more obvious.

Don't worry, they'll just collect the insurance payouts and rebuild.

Meh...STFU and buy a bigger truck. That is what we do on the private road I live on. In the spring it gets so bad that one of my neighbors leaves his truck at the end of the bad section and takes an ATV through the really bad section to get to his house. My neighbors and I have all talked about whether we want to put in a better road, but there are just too many positives to having it be so nasty. We are out in the middle of nowhere, and are frequently travelling and away from home for a week or two at a time. Robberies happen fairly often to homes like that, but not on this road. Heck, most people are surprised when they get back here on their horses and discover houses. No solicitors or Jehovah's Witnesses, either. The Post Office carrier drives a big Jeep, so she doesn't care. The UPS/FedEx trucks come by at roughly the same time every day, and if we meet them at the end of the road they are more than happy to call that delivered. We pay to have it "evened out" (a relative term) every year, but even then that is only for fire safety concerns. As long as the pumper truck can get where it needs to go we are happy with it.

Someone should win them a Super Bowl.

Arthur Jumbles: Build a bridge?

exactly

If only there were some sort of vehicle capable of navigating through water!

So, basically, their argument is that the big bad gubmint should have protected their private road and figured out a way to divert water driven in by a massive storm elsewhere in advance.

I bet they complain about having to pay taxes while welfare queens get free government cheese. They even have fridges, those freeloaders!

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You're rich, drive your Lexus/Audi/Benz/Inifiniti SUV off-road and like it.

/dnrtfa

I know, let's build million dollar houses on a farking sand bar! Not sad,

The owners of these homes no doubt biatched about someone in a housing project in Durham getting an extra $20 in food stamp benefits. They will no doubt also scream for the NCDOT to rebuild their little Bootstrappy Avenue out to their million dollar beach houses.

Just keep cutting taxes on the rich - go ahead and cut some more.

What? These houses bespeak of SOMEONE owning a congressman or two. Just give him a jingle and "Poof!" new road. How much simpler could it get?

You built a house on shifting sand with out "Congressional Insurance"? You idiot.

At first I was thinking, a barge could do it but christ sakes and afternoon with a bucket loader and a dozer and I could get contractors in there.

I wonder how all the rich and famous that have homes on the Thimble Islands get things done?


how to get that done, hmmm how to get that done?

This appears to be the best anti-hoa argument I've heard in a while.

Sure the home owners have insurance, but shouldn't the property association have had insurance for the communal property?

Balchinian: Meh...STFU and buy a bigger truck. That is what we do on the private road I live on. In the spring it gets so bad that one of my neighbors leaves his truck at the end of the bad section and takes an ATV through the really bad section to get to his house. My neighbors and I have all talked about whether we want to put in a better road, but there are just too many positives to having it be so nasty. We are out in the middle of nowhere, and are frequently travelling and away from home for a week or two at a time. Robberies happen fairly often to homes like that, but not on this road. Heck, most people are surprised when they get back here on their horses and discover houses. No solicitors or Jehovah's Witnesses, either. The Post Office carrier drives a big Jeep, so she doesn't care. The UPS/FedEx trucks come by at roughly the same time every day, and if we meet them at the end of the road they are more than happy to call that delivered. We pay to have it "evened out" (a relative term) every year, but even then that is only for fire safety concerns. As long as the pumper truck can get where it needs to go we are happy with it.

agreed, bootstrap people either drive trucks or use their cars like trucks. We fix stuff for results not impressing. We clean after ourselves instead of whining for someone else to clean our oopsies.