People Who Built On Texas Sand Dunes Might Be Unable To Replace Hurricane Ike Damaged Homes On Eroded Beaches

[Harbourmaster]

Linda Young - AHN Editor wrote:
A common-sense Texas law might prevent some owners of beachfront homes affected by Hurricane Ike from repairing or replacing those houses.

And Hurricane Ike swept away most traces of the communities of Gilchrist and Crystal Beach along the Bolivar Peninsula. It pushed the Gulf of Mexico inland destroying homes, Galveston's beach along the Seawall is gone and the coastal highways have collapsed.

Under the 1959 Texas law, the Texas Open Beaches Act, the strip of strip of beach between the average high-tide line and the average low-tide line is considered public property, and it is illegal to build anything there.

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