Cancun, Nature at War Over Beaches

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/tech/2007/mar/11/031101695.html

Cancun and Mother Nature are at war again.

Mexico spent $19 million to replace beaches washed away by Hurricane Wilma in 2005, but erosion has shrunk Cancun's sandy playground to the point where waves at high tide lap against some hotel patios.

To bring tourists pouring back after Hurricane Wilma, the ocean floor was dredged to rebuild eight miles of beach, nearly double their pre-hurricane size, and hotels were refurbished.

Just a year after the grand refurbishment was completed, the beaches have shrunk again, from 100 feet to less than 70 feet at mid-tide in the tourist zone, and swimmers are forced to clamber down 3-foot drops in the sand level to reach the water.

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[XemaSab]

1. Screw the tourists and the whole tourist industry

If Ma Nature doesn't want a beach there, there ain't nothing nobody can do.

[Nihil]

2. "Cancun" should be renamed "Canute" ...

... or, more accurately, "Canute's Advisors" as the whole "command the
tide to stay out" business was the king trying to show he was an ordinary
man, not a god-like creature with supernatural powers.

Cancun, on the other hand, is definitely being run by ordinary men and,
sadly, the fact that they are so stupid is also "ordinary".
:shrug: