Tiny Town, Big Decision: What Are We Willing to Pay to Fight the Rising Sea?

Most of these homes have been one storm away from being wiped off the map since they were built. The ocean was always there. The storms always come. Every year a few houses are lost.

If they didn't kit them out with high end wood floors, TV, marble countertops and stainless fridges the insurance costs wouldn't go up like this. This is like building next to a train track, then complaining about the noise.