DEAD DUCKS AND ISLAND ROLLOVER: Geological forces are bad asses. In the whole-ball-of-wax picture, the Third Rock from the Sun is pretty much at the utter mercy of how the world turns, geologically speaking.

While the day will never come when mere mankind can conveniently patch up the San Andreas Fault, or scare tsunamis back into the ocean, right here on LBI we’re displaying what might be called geo-defiance. We’re trying to stave off inexorable planetary forces. Here’s how.

Barrier islands, like ours truly, are at the mercy of a muscularly incontestable ocean, which power-pushes the sandy…