[Magdalen] A good evening was had, if harrowing.

[Jay Weigel]

And a kids' Sunday school song about it, too.

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> On 12/12/2014 15:58, Jay Weigel wrote:
>
>> Sounds very pleasant, except for the weather. Sheesh! I've been hearing
>> from a dear friend who lives up on the CA/OR border, and it sounds like
>> you
>> are getting the year's allotted rainfall all at once, along with wind,
>> waves, and everything else. Yikes!
>>
>
> Indeed, I was looking at a newsclip earlier this afternoon of a particular
> part of the CA coast where houses have been swept into the sea.  One
> (former) home owner said that when he bought the property he had to sign a
> paper about erosion and thought it wouldn't really affect him.  Excuse me,
> the place is called Washaway Beach - shouldn't that have told him something?
>
> Somebody else observed that the ocean was merely reclaiming its own as
> everything there is sand.  I seem to recall a story from somewhere about
> building a house on sand.
>
> Roger
>