LOL, apparently to no avail! BugMan has contingency plans for Hooter's-related disasters!
He lives in Hurricane country. he has to have a contingency plan.
I bet he's on Hooters "first call list" and shows up with a generator at the closest location to keep the beer coolers powered!
The two issues are separate. The beach renovation plan that the second article is talking about has nothing to do with the East Pass. The opposition to the beach renourishment is mainly behind the condos and private house/condos. That battle has been going on for years....I agree with Bugman on that issue. As to the East Pass...if you have a harbor you will have to continue to dredge the point.
Well.... they are sorta seperate. The sand comes out of the channel where they dredge and then they pump it up onto the beach. I guess the other option is that they could go pump it out somewhere in the middle of the ocean.
But I'm sure they'd have someone complain about that also, like burying some crab in the sand forever.
I'm in Destin about every year when this is going on. Part of the argument is that some homeowners think the beach in front of their house is "theirs" and they don't want to share it with anyone. By adding extra sand in front of their house, they don't want to allow any other beachgoers on what they think is their property.
The fact is that very few of them actually have title to the beach in front of their house all the way to the water.
yet when storms come and wash the sand away in front of their houses and under the pilings/stilts, they whine because no one is going to "rescue" their house.
in 2007 on old hwy98 in Destin (the 2 lane beach road along Crystal Beach area), there were whole complexes of houses that I'm surprised didn't fall off into the ocean. the beach was so far gone that the waves were crashing under their houses and had even eaten away some of their parking lots.