Person way in front of store: Your faith in climatology not withstanding, I still say there's such a thing as being too far ahead of the market.
Store reads: BARRY'S SURF SHOP
Holy heck. Can’t even get away from the religious BS on a comic strip website. Go somewhere else to debate this nonsense and leave the rest of us here to laugh.
They once thought that about Lake Havasu, too, but now look at the over crowded waterway, the retail centers blocking the shore line, and the cookie cutter ‘adobe’ look subdivisions eating up the space. Be careful what you wish for.
Lex Luthor: Miss Teschmacher, when I was six years old my father said to me… Miss Teschmacher: “Get out!” Lex Luthor: [laughing] Before that. He said, “Son, stocks may rise and fall, utilities and transportation systems may collapse. People are no damn good, but they will always need land and they will pay through the nose to get it! Remember,” my father said… Otis: “… land.”
Maybe not too far away? Boarding down a steep sand dune can be quite challenging. But the wipe outs tend to be a bit rough on the skin! Probably won’t catch on.
Any change big enough to cause something like that to happen in a single individual’s lifetime would probably be memorialized by the ending of that lifetime.
Shucks, Barry; you’ve certainly got the right entrepreneurial spirit there! I mean, after all: the ocean very well could (possibly) come back there to what are now the western High Plains! You know, I have been reading (here and there) about some various End-Time prophecies of the world being washed over with water again; only the righteous being Saved, so on, etc. — sometime, who knows? (LOL!)
In the State of Florida the terms “global warming” and “climate change” are officially banned from state documents. Denial will make the problem go away. It is ironic since if sea levels rise by 300 feet (as they have in past epochs) , Florida would be reduced to a tiny island 12 feet above water off the coast of Alabama.
Try looking at the past ten thousand years, and the trend of glacial recession, sea rise, inland aridity and rising average temperatures becomes quite obvious.If you cannot decide how best to deflect the brutal attacks of my comments, it may be only due to their being objective observations without malice aforethought.
Backin the 70s, when everyone was expecting “The BIG One” to drop the Western half of Cali into the Pacific, I bought a house in Atwater, CA. Never did live up to its name.
Does your calculation include the fact that the temperature rise required to create the desired redistribution of water resources to inland reserves must be realized by sacrificing inland habitat, and that the unprecedented levels of GHGs can save some of that inland habitat and enable the surface of the Earth to harbor more lives than it does in places such as the Saharan Desert, which used to be the Saharan Great Lakes and grasslands, and will be again after the warming is completed?It is sheer folly to spare millions of lives and retain thousands of acres of arable lands during the warming sequence?Is this because you hate capitalism, industry and human kind in general?
Dtroutma about 8 years ago
Geology, actually, Denver after all was once at the bottom of a sea!
Enter.Name.Here about 8 years ago
Three words…Location, location, location.
Superfrog about 8 years ago
Barry has the best surf shop for hundreds of miles.
strictures about 8 years ago
Coming soon: The Great Nebraska Sea.
dadoctah about 8 years ago
I need to print up and start selling t-shirts reading “Winnemucca Yacht Club”.
dl11898 about 8 years ago
Never say “never.” Stuff happens.
nosirrom about 8 years ago
Barry’s just getting ready for the wave of customers that will be showing up any century now.
whiteheron about 8 years ago
Don’t step in the cowabunga.
Daniel J. about 8 years ago
Holy heck. Can’t even get away from the religious BS on a comic strip website. Go somewhere else to debate this nonsense and leave the rest of us here to laugh.
sandpiper about 8 years ago
They once thought that about Lake Havasu, too, but now look at the over crowded waterway, the retail centers blocking the shore line, and the cookie cutter ‘adobe’ look subdivisions eating up the space. Be careful what you wish for.
Chem Guy about 8 years ago
Ray Stevens also had fun with this idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORyzsMZPPUg
dabugger about 8 years ago
Must be lonely until the flash floods come.
Dr_Zinj about 8 years ago
Lex Luthor: Miss Teschmacher, when I was six years old my father said to me… Miss Teschmacher: “Get out!” Lex Luthor: [laughing] Before that. He said, “Son, stocks may rise and fall, utilities and transportation systems may collapse. People are no damn good, but they will always need land and they will pay through the nose to get it! Remember,” my father said… Otis: “… land.”
DutchUncle about 8 years ago
Not climatology; geology. Where will the oceanfront be after the San Andreas and Cascadia events?
yimhere about 8 years ago
Maybe not too far away? Boarding down a steep sand dune can be quite challenging. But the wipe outs tend to be a bit rough on the skin! Probably won’t catch on.
Linguist about 8 years ago
Barry’s always been ahead of the curve. It’s just that he has a tendency to build on a straightaway.
His Field of Dreams is more like his Desert of Delusions
It’s O.K. Barry, if you build it, they will come……eventually !
SURF’S UP !
LeePIII Premium Member about 8 years ago
I suspect he is confusing what once was, with what might be…..
LeePIII Premium Member about 8 years ago
Any change big enough to cause something like that to happen in a single individual’s lifetime would probably be memorialized by the ending of that lifetime.
ladylagomorph76 about 8 years ago
Coyotes need haircuts, too!
rickray777 about 8 years ago
Shucks, Barry; you’ve certainly got the right entrepreneurial spirit there! I mean, after all: the ocean very well could (possibly) come back there to what are now the western High Plains! You know, I have been reading (here and there) about some various End-Time prophecies of the world being washed over with water again; only the righteous being Saved, so on, etc. — sometime, who knows? (LOL!)
wolfman47130 about 8 years ago
Saturday afternoon in Arizona.
Frankie Rage about 8 years ago
At least he won’t be bothered by annoying customers..
Thomas & Tifffany Connolly about 8 years ago
It’s a wave function.
dflak about 8 years ago
In the State of Florida the terms “global warming” and “climate change” are officially banned from state documents. Denial will make the problem go away. It is ironic since if sea levels rise by 300 feet (as they have in past epochs) , Florida would be reduced to a tiny island 12 feet above water off the coast of Alabama.
PainterArt Premium Member about 8 years ago
Brass Orchid Premium Member about 8 years ago
Try looking at the past ten thousand years, and the trend of glacial recession, sea rise, inland aridity and rising average temperatures becomes quite obvious.If you cannot decide how best to deflect the brutal attacks of my comments, it may be only due to their being objective observations without malice aforethought.
Ed Brault Premium Member about 8 years ago
Backin the 70s, when everyone was expecting “The BIG One” to drop the Western half of Cali into the Pacific, I bought a house in Atwater, CA. Never did live up to its name.
Brass Orchid Premium Member about 8 years ago
Does your calculation include the fact that the temperature rise required to create the desired redistribution of water resources to inland reserves must be realized by sacrificing inland habitat, and that the unprecedented levels of GHGs can save some of that inland habitat and enable the surface of the Earth to harbor more lives than it does in places such as the Saharan Desert, which used to be the Saharan Great Lakes and grasslands, and will be again after the warming is completed?It is sheer folly to spare millions of lives and retain thousands of acres of arable lands during the warming sequence?Is this because you hate capitalism, industry and human kind in general?
Tedo about 8 years ago
Most of North America was under water at some time. Seashell fossils are found from the East Coast to the West Coast.
Tedo about 8 years ago
Looks like Barry needs to sell water along with his sand surf boards.