Indian Rocks Beach leaders address Idalia erosion, renourishment efforts

you should have been there in June 1957 when everything beyond the wooden sea wall was washed away overnight. There were no dunes then, just an upper and lower beach. The edge of hurricane Audrey category 4 just brushed the edge of the Florida coast at IRB. The water came up, over the seawall across the upper beach and almost to the top of the first step coming into our rental house. We were at 804 Gulf Blvd which at that time was a rental called the Jones Cottage. Many memories of IRB in the 1950s.

Why are they giving a live report in the dark? Indian Rocks beaches are skinny to begin with.

Meanwhile maui is in legit ashes

Stop building your houses on sinking sand. Stop asking taxpayers to replenish your bad choices in where to build.

I think that's the least of the worries right now😮

Oh no… nature doing what nature does. Who would have thought…?

So are we going to stop erosion and plate tectonics along with the climate now?

Hello. My 60 year old self can step over that board with noo trouble.

They are bringing in
more sand from
Sand Diego.

If only scientists will be believed

who cares

Why aren’t you reporting on Maui and the disgraceful coverup being perpetrated?!?

Umm……….IRB Citizens & Admin, just dredge more sand out of the Gulf, like you've been doing already, and STFU. Go down to Cedar Key, or Ft.Meyers Beach. Then you'll get some perspective.

I'm sure that this has nothing to do with melting glaciers and rising temperatures. Just keep putting the sand back as the water rises above the beaches. Band-Aid time!

That real estate is going to be gone real soon.

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Boo hoo.
Indiand Rocks Beach???
120 miles from the impact?? Cry me a river…. Take a look at Steinhatchee and get back to me. Y'all lost SAND. Steinhatchee lost EVERYTHING… Homes, land, boats, tourism, livelihoods, souls, hearts, history, will,…… verses SAND? You got a lotta nerve sensationalizing this "nothing burger".

Extreme flooding and no Fema aid.

Someone needs to inform the barrier island cities that they aren't going to exist within two decades and that it is time for the property owners to accept their losses and move inland. Unless these property owners want to wait until a hurricane perform a Ft. Myers Beach style wipeout of the homes because that is going to happen eventually.
The oceans are rising the rising is accelerating so Florida's entire coastline is lost. Depopulating all the regions below six feet elevation will save human lives although I understand that capitalism doesn't much value human life and cities must load populations at sea level. Expect a Katrina scale death toll in Pinellas county when the catastrophe arrives but until then you can admire shiny new mansions and condos.