 A year ago, sold for $200,000. Pretty big discount, wouldn't you say? They say homeowners on the New England island paradise of Nantucket are caught between the shore and a hard place as erosion swallows the land underneath their dream vacation homes. Just the beginning. Just the beginning. Wait and see. From phys.org, Cape Cod scientists want to dump 60,000 gallons of sodium hydroxide into ocean in climate change experiment.