Letters

To quote an editorial in this paper from December 6, 2019, “Sound the Retreat”: “And about that ‘temporary use’ notion: It’s likely that the waters will reach the geocubes. At which point it will never be safe to remove them. Set any time frame you like — six weeks, six months, six years — there is no ‘temporary’ use, so long as the building remains where it is.”

June 21, we start the summer, our sixth of having a road and beach access blocked. The water already went farther than the cubes before their placement and does so even today, for homes that are on pilings and already had the septic moved by emergency activities over a decade ago.

Temporary becomes permanent because the “authorities” who allow it are just running the clock out until they collect pensions. The next generations’ problem, I suppose.

Still here.

Joe Karpinski

Amagansett