{"id":3294,"date":"2017-05-30T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2017-05-16T08:21:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T15:21:51","slug":"irish-beach-washed-away-33-years-ago-has-just-returned-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/irish-beach-washed-away-33-years-ago-has-just-returned-overnight\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Beach Washed Away 33 Years Ago Has Just Returned Overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"post tag-science\">\n<section class=\"post-content \">\n<div id=\"post-area\" class=\" fade-1\">\n<div id=\"content-area\" class=\"text \">\n<p><strong>McKinley Corbley from GoodNewsNetwork.com writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The tourism in this tiny Irish town has suffered since their beautiful swath of beach was washed away 33 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>But just as suddenly as it disappeared, it has returned.<\/p>\n<p>Storms hit the sands\u00a0of Dooagh on Achill Island in Ireland back in 1984, leaving nothing but harsh\u00a0rock\u00a0and puddles in the place of the beach.<\/p>\n<p>Since the island\u2019s towns largely depended on the beach as a tourism draw, the local economy took a serious blow.<\/p>\n<p>Then, around Easter time in April, a strange cold snap descended on the island, bringing a strong steady wind and a \u2018freak tide\u2019 from the north.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of tons of sand washed up on the shore once more, recreating the 300-meter stretch of beach that the locals missed so dearly.<\/p>\n<p>Though the beach\u2019s strange return has already drawn visitors\u00a0from around the country, island locals are hoping that the beach will receive a blue-flag inspection next year, a special Irish eco-certification.<\/p>\n<p>(<strong>WATCH<\/strong> the video below)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Irish beach &#039;reappears overnight&#039; in freak tide - 33 years after being washed away!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XrfgJ8zregU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title td-page-title\">McKinley Corbley:\u00a0Editor and writer for GNN; part-time circus junkie; and part-time English student in community college. Enjoys feminism, bad puns, travel, and copious amounts of stomach-ache inducing pasta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title td-page-title\"><em>Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/irish-beach-washed-away-33-years-ago-just-returned-overnight\/<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McKinley Corbley from GoodNewsNetwork.com writes: The tourism in this tiny Irish town has suffered since their beautiful swath of beach was washed away 33 years ago. But just as suddenly as it disappeared, it has returned. Storms hit the sands\u00a0of Dooagh on Achill Island in Ireland back in 1984, leaving nothing but harsh\u00a0rock\u00a0and puddles in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[711,710],"class_list":["post-3294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-achill-island","tag-irish-beach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3298,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions\/3298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}