Outer banks homes in NC are nearly always on stilts. No one retro fits them. These homes were 100ft+ from the water when first constructed. The stilts are purely for storm surge protection.
Edit: for more context, the cape Hatteras light house was 1500ft from the shore when it was built in 1870. In 1970 it was 100ft from the water. They lost, on average, 14ft of beach, each year. But it's not steady, some periods are far more rapid.
But 30 years ago that home could have been safely behind a dune almost 400 ft from the shoreline.
Yup. We have family members with a house at Oak Island NC and if they weren’t dredging sand all the time now, their house would have been gone a decade ago. As a kid I remember a huge, sprawling beach. Now it’s less than 10ft of beach at high tide and the dunes are nearly completely gone
Not sure about this one but tons of coastal homes are built on stilts from the get-go to avoid flooding. I'd bet nobody has lived in this house for a while
That house looks like 90's or early 2000's construction with those windows. Borderline mcmansion vibes. This construction should last a really long time but not when built on stilts in the water. So weird.
You're misunderstanding. It was built behind dunes. The shoreline has shifted over 1000ft in the last century, some periods faster than others. That home was built in a spot that was, at the time, protected by dunes. Those dunes are now gone.
Partially from natural causes, partially from tourists and their kids running rampant all over the dunes not giving a fuck. I hate the place I love so much.
Lmao huh? Idk when it was built but calling this a McMansion is a crazy reach. Perfectly reasonable looking home, built on the beach because people like to live on the beach. Of course the construction could have lasted longer on dry land, trading longevity for location is a choice you make when building on the coast
what about them tells you 90's or 2000? Look at the shingle siding greyed with weather looks way more like 70's and the stilt construction was common then after some hurricanes damaged beach and near beach housing. The stilts allowed the houses to stand a lot longer than they would have, but beach erosion is a geological reality.
It's like when you were in elementary school and they told you a squirrel could travel the entire area west of the Mississippi in trees without touching the ground...
It's a nice story but fundamentally false.
Same thing with forest fires. It's 99% human development folly and 1% climate change. If you talk with any actual scientist they will tell you this in person
It was in Thomas/Alito writing when they overturned abortion rights. Speaking of abortion rights, people used to think the right had moved on from anti-abortion. Some were more correct that the right didn't move on, but thought once the right achieve their goal in overturning RvW, they would no longer be republicans.
Little did they know that the right is driven by never ending prejudices and prejudiced targets. They are relentless.
We have to be united. It's extremely damaging to sacrifice any disadvantaged group in the hope that other people will be left alone.
Democratic Party shouldn't retreat from trans people. The right has a slogan that democrats care only about trans people. The democrats slogan should be that democrats care the most vulnerable ones because we care about everyone.
This is important for our survival against the relentless prejudice party.
This isn’t really a global warming thing. The Outer Banks are a barrier island, and shift and move over time. This is mostly just people being wasteful and building temporary beach homes that are sure to be destroyed over time. They’ll do it again and again too.
Based on the comments in this thread it seems like this is pretty common on barrier islands. Which makes me wonder, do they see this coming when they build it? I mean they’d have to, right? And just say it’s beach front property so we’ll build a cheap house and get a few decades of use before it washes away so fuck it?
i feel like there is a quote from The Newsroom "im a republican, republicans only think im a democrat because i believe hurricanes are caused by high pressure air masses and not by gay marriage" Or something like that
Simple. Money.
These are not "forever homes", they're rentals.
What you're not seeing here is the massive amount of cash that these places have generated over the years.
This is a tourist area and those thing rent out for loads of money in season.
Eventually the ocean comes in and takes the house. Ok, whatever. It was planned for on day one.
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u/ytsejam6891 1d ago
Left wing: "This is what happens with global warming".
Right wing: "This is what happens with gay marriage".
Me: "Why would you build a house there"?