In the last, say, six, seven years, new federal coastal regulations have mandated extreme wind loads be calculated into the engineering of all these structures, and ... in what are called ... ‘velocity zones’, there are extreme forces of tidal action.
Whenever you go to do anything in these coastal zones, you’re dealing with an extreme layer of idiosyncrasy and cost ... .
So the romance of the water is undeniable; the beauty of it, the changing of it. But the risk-reward scenario is extreme; huge costs involved in construction, and there’s also ongoing costs in maintenance. But there is really no other environment that I can think of that is more evocative and more part of your life than this ever changing, rugged, wild, beautiful environment of living by the sea.
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