On the whole I would say our children were less at risk than many of the children I see who spend a full day at the seashore, unprotected by suntan lotion and generally unprepared by their parents to face the dangers of breaking waves.
This type of corrosion is severe near the seashore and it is most noticeable on the side of the house that faces the prevailing winds.
("How was I to know that composers had to go up in the mountains, or to the seashore, to commune with the muses for six months?") Other popular composers have faced similar gaps between their early training and their goals; George Gershwin's solution was to make himself a lifelong student, working with a series of teachers on harmony, counterpoint, orchestration.
At dusk, the Golden Gate Bridge is heaven's seashore: I watch boats heading home with the day's catch or ferrying souls to glittering Alcatraz, or I face west and let the Pacific slip in bloodshot glory over the planet's lip, sense the waterfall at the end of the journey.
Humanity faced being "choked, drowned or starved" by its own stupidity, he said, and he compared those who challenged the reality of climate change to the courtiers who flattered King Canute, until he proved he could not command the waves by going to the seashore and trying to do so.
The feebleness of these solutions in the face of submerged New York City subway lines or the wreckage of the Jersey seashore: they weren't canaries this time, but they could be next time.
Mr. Rabins, whose first name, Iso, means "seashore" in Japanese — "My parents were hippies," he said — is one of the more prominent faces of the underground dining scene.
We'd never known it before". Among the problems the Inuit face is permafrost melting, which has destroyed the foundations of houses, eroded the seashore and forced people to move inland.
Point Reyes National Seashore, Calif.
