Global warming could put Walker´s Point (Bush estate) under water

[MaineDem]

PORTLAND, Maine — The Bush family property in Kennebunkport could be under water if sea levels continue rising because of global warming in the decades ahead, according to an analysis released Tuesday.

The Natural Resources Council of Maine created maps that showed portions of the Maine coast and how they would be affected under two scenarios: where the sea level rises by 3 feet and by 20 feet.

Either way, Maine stands to lose thousands of acres of coastal real estate and suffer severe economic and environmental impacts, according to the study.

"The results are alarming," said Dylan Voorhees, energy project director for the conservation organization.

http://news.mainetoday.com/apwire/D8K84SE81-262.shtml

[Atman]

I just released the contents of a dozen old spray cans I had laying around

Anything to help.

[silverweb]

16. LMAO

My first reaction was WTF? Then I read the rest.

:rofl:

[MasonJar]

23. That is hilarious. I laughed out loud. Thanks, I needed to laugh

so I wouldn't cry.

[hatrack]

1. Well, they certainly earned it. I'm sorry for the rest of the world . . .

and for the rest of Maine, but not for them.

[n2doc]

2. They will just eminent domain some land higher up and relo the house

all at taxpayers expense, you know. No FEMA trailers for the royalty....

[Ilsa]

19. We'll all have to go up there and squat before they take it. nt

[gorbal]

3. I live in Portland, so I am horrified.

If sea levels even rased three meters, wharf street would be a wharf again:(

Here are some pictures I took of Portland last December, so you know what we will be losing-

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v383/cobalow/Maine%20Towns/Portland%20In%20December/

(Only half are in the Old Port. The West End is pretty high.)

[grasswire]

4. pretty, pretty pictures

Looks like a movie set.

[gorbal]

5. Thank you:)

They shot a "Snoop Dog" movie here a short while ago. So that makes sense:)

[Gormy Cuss]

7. Everything below Fore St, for certain.

lower India Street to Federal too. Back Cove would cover all of Marginal Way and probably all the way up to Portland Street (the area near the main P.O. was underwater in the mid 1800s)and Baxter Blvd and adjacent low lying streets would be submerged. On the other side of Forest Ave, Thompson's Point would be under water too. The peninsula would become an island.

[gorbal]

8. Ugh, I'm going to have to learn to swim I guess

Or buy a boat.

[karynnj]

14. Those are beautiful townhouses

They look like Victorian postcards.

[gorbal]

27. That is the west end

It's a really lovely place, kinda pricey, but half the price of an apartment in NYC.

[Canuckistanian]

30. A lot like my town in Canada

Edwardian architecture, northern climate, small-town feel...

I should show you some pics of my town.... as soon as I get some.

[gorbal]

31. I like town pics, there aren't enough online

Whenever I deside to travel, it is so hard to figure out where to go. I look around for pictures for different towns and locals, but you have to wade through alot of crap to get to the nicer pictures, and your to tired by the time you are finished to want to go anywhere.

[truthisfreedom]

6. "The results are alarming." could describe just about anything bushco has

a hand in.

[Ian David]

9. Hopefully the whole Bush family will be there as it sinks.

Except Jenna.

She's kinda hot.

[rodeodance]

10. "I know President Bush wouldn´t want his family summer house destroyed

As part of its evaluation, NRCM mapped Walker´s Point in Kennebunkport, owned by the family of President Bush.

If sea levels rise by 3 feet, a portion of the property _ including the main house where the family stays _ would be under water, Voorhees said. If it rises by 20 feet, the entire Walker´s Point peninsula would be submerged.

Voorhees said he wanted to show the impacts on Walker´s Point to encourage the president to do more to curb global warming.

Rosalind Wade, a retired librarian from Kennebunkport, said she and her husband sometimes joke that global warming in time will make their inland home an oceanfront property. But global warming, she said, is no laughing matter.

"I know President Bush wouldn´t want his family summer house destroyed any more than I would want mine," she said.

[notadmblnd]

11. good!

nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

20. I second that! Karma's gonna get them! Too bad others will suffer

though. But where the bu$hs' are involved, that always happens.

[zara]

12. Maybe by then Trent Lott Jr will be Prez and can help build a dike~!

You know, payback for Bush's efforts to rebuild the Lott Pascagoula estate!

[NOLADEM]

13. I just got goosebumps

Sad thing is that now a tiny little part of me is pulling for it.

I wanna see his press conference from the point in waders denying global warming.

[NEOBuckeye]

15. too bad, so sad

:sarcasm:

[silverweb]

17. Follow the process.

You can actually watch it happen here on the _flood map_.

[DemoTex]

18. I really do not think that Klan Bu$h could care one whit.

I mean, it is hard to be sentimental when you are such pathologically dysfunctional children of privilege, as is Klan Bu$h. No, with the money they have looted from this nation alone - and that (money) is all that matters to these trashy people - they can go anywhere they want.

[sarcasmo]

21. Couldn't happen to a nicer family.

[yellowcanine]

22. Silver lining of the global warming cloud - this plus the loss of ocean

front properties of all of the idiots who destroyed the barrier islands by filling them up with beach houses and high rise hotels.

[goforit]

24. Just a little karma from Mother Nature.

[bamacrat]

25. Lets just go ahead and sink it.

[Anakin Skywalker]

26. They Don't Care. They Will Just Buy Another.

unlike "the lesser people" who cannot afford to.

[elehhhhna]

28. after collecting a butrillion dollar FEMA check.

[RobertSeattle]

29. Doesn't Rush Limbaugh live right on the ocean too?