Don't get me started on piers. The pier in Ocean City Maryland has had the end destroyed at least three times in the past 7 years. I have been surfing the inlet jetty watching them repair it and said to my myself how small in diameter the new pilings look. Jetting in rather than driving to resistance, similar length and diameter to residential construction. Then sure enough the following winter it all gets destroyed again. We treat the ocean like a dumping ground for cheap construction...I cant even imagine how much lumber and connectors are on the ocean bottom right in the surf break. Even months later the sheared off pilings are left in our surf break...These are the ones you can see...I would get there are twice as many that you can't.
i did see a couple days ago that Hurricane Matthew flattened more than half of SC's dunes. i'm sure that may apply to FL and NC as well. leaving those pilings in place can ruin a day or year too. i along with my buddies have hit a beam, splits some streets here on folly, when it was high tide and you couldn't see it till the last sec. several boards damaged and cuts from falling onto