Orrin Pilkey Quotes

You pay a lot of money for that beach and that beach is going to disappear periodically, so you pay a lot of money again and again and again. - Orrin Pilkey

You don't have an erosion problem until you build something too close to the water. - Orrin Pilkey

This is an obvious form of welfare for the rich. - Orrin Pilkey

There's just a bunch of well-off people who have been very imprudent, even stupid, and they've built their buildings right next to a beach... They're asking us to pay for restoring the beach when all we have to do is tell them to move their buildings and the beach will be restored. - Orrin Pilkey

There is no such thing as an easy community to evacuate. - Orrin Pilkey

It is immensely worse as far as damage to the shoreline and beachfront retreat... goes across the islands very quickly. - Orrin Pilkey

I remember after the storm we would drive up and down the beach. Seemed like for 10 years or so we would see those steps going to nowhere and plainly cleaned-off cement slabs... For us, they were a symbol of the storm and its enormity. - Orrin Pilkey

I really believe Florida, more than any state, has not gotten hold of its erosion problems. Florida beaches are either doomed or the state is going to have a huge nourishment bill in the future. - Orrin Pilkey

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