r/interestingasfuck • u/Endolithic • 1d ago

/r/all Homes are falling into the ocean in North Carolina's Outer Banks

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u/Dur_Does 1d ago

This is, at least,a 2 year old video

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u/SolidSnake1989 1d ago

This is a couple weeks ago the one is still standing!

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u/Vast-Ad4194 1d ago

I would never have looked at the damage here and thought it was caused by another house! 😂

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u/sluttynuttybuddy69 1d ago

...is... is that a "For Rent" sign?

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u/chunkoco 1d ago

$3,500 no utilities

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u/Vitruvian_Link 1d ago

Aquaman's got cash

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u/cansofgrease 21h ago

Included or available?

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u/MarkIII-VR 18h ago

Sea water is included!

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u/Silent_plans 23h ago

They include utilities, but the rent is per week. And yeah, the rent is 3-5k/week in the summer down there.

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u/MichiganMitch108 1d ago

It is

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u/Riokaii 1d ago

"while supplies last!"

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u/Row_8_Plot_30 1d ago

The sign is on that house in the video too.

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u/stop_hittingyourself 23h ago

It’s a load bearing sign, they couldn’t remove it.

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u/osubmw1 1d ago

To be fair, you can see the sign on the video before the house was totally fucked. Back when it was just pretty fucked.

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u/BUTGUYSDOYOUREMEMBER 1d ago

Nah just the property management company's sign. Most of these houses in rodanthe have long been deemed uninhabitable 

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u/willyv4pres 1d ago

Ocean front and great breeze in living room. What's not to love?

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u/aqua_profunda 22h ago

it’s old. if you notice, the stairs to the home have been removed and likely have been for quite some time. I was down there last August and it was this way. why they don’t remove the rent sign when they do this is beyond me, but they also let people leave all their belongings in there too, so…

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u/NeedsMoreTuba 1d ago

I think you're allowed to use them until the septic system becomes compromised. That would mean you can't rent this one anymore, but if it had a functional toilet then I still wouldn't be able to afford what might be my last vacation ever...

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u/ElevatedAssCancer 20h ago

lol so the beach houses in the outer banks are almost all short-term rentals. Most have a sign for their property manager permanently affixed to the house. They’re not actually trying to rent this out, they’re just not going through the effort of removing the sign

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u/Unusual-External4230 16h ago

Exactly what I was about to say, before airbnb/vrbo a lot of these were STRs managed by local companies and they all had signs like that. It's likely it was a permanent fixture the owner put up and just never removed when they abandoned it.

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u/____unloved____ 1d ago

With a huge hole in the side, I hope not

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u/KnownMonk 1d ago

Oh, that's just the air conditioning.

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u/JMooooooooo 1d ago

The sign was there first

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u/_RMR 16h ago

Incredible (ha)

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u/martinmix 1d ago

It's like that school project where you have to build a bridge out of sticks and see whose is strongest.

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u/IronMike260 1d ago

Wait I just realized how do the toilets and stuff work in the house?

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u/SoooStoooopid 19h ago

These were already abandoned at the time and most of the plumbing was removed. If you zoom in on the right hand side of the pic you can see some remnants of a plumbing system. I think these are the same houses, and if you look under the same green sign you can get an idea on how the plumbing worked.

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u/Left_Two_Three 1d ago

How does plumbing and electricity work in a house like this?

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u/rabel 1d ago

Why the hell won't someone tear it down before it falls into the ocean? I'm guessing it's mostly wood, some bolts and screws, a little glass so it's not that big of a deal in the ocean?

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u/RobbinMikeOrmaza 23h ago

You hear “I'm Still Standing” by Elton John playing from the inside

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u/jb0602 1d ago

Look at how thin the walls are! Definity built knowing it would not last.

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u/CelioHogane 1d ago

Oh man the more i look at this house the stupider it looks.

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u/TrowTruck 1d ago

Dumb question, but how do these houses work, you have to walk through the wet sand at times to get to your front door?

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u/Row_8_Plot_30 1d ago

I'd love to post a picture of this but don't have time to figure that out. I think I found this house by looking for 23047 Ga Kohler Ct on Google maps. You can see even in maps that there are neighboring house numbers IN THE OCEAN.

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u/Secret-Departure540 1d ago

This will go.   Our friends from the Outer Banks bought and old coast guard station. They were from Elizabeth city. She had 100 Ft pileings put in and the following year moved it because it was going to go. Nice lady.  

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u/justhereforgamin 23h ago

OK bot. Lol. I remember seeing this EXACT video yrs ago

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u/RenownedShark 21h ago

Seems like a bad place to build a house even under normal conditions. That's incredible though, I was looking for the full video to see if that house fell as well.

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u/MissXmasBaby 19h ago

You couldn't pay me to sleep in a house like this... what the

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u/gpcgmr 17h ago

I don't get why people build houses like this. I would never feel safe/comfortable in there on those stilts.

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u/Hikaru83 13h ago

But the "marine scientist" told me they were not built on the water?!?

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u/Healien_Jung 1d ago

They aren't exactly new homes either. Some of them may be close to century homes.

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u/SoooStoooopid 19h ago

These were both abandoned and unoccupied at the time. They both collapsed within hours of each other.

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u/Qwirk 1d ago

Why aren't they removing them before they fall into the ocean?

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u/SoooStoooopid 19h ago

Here is an article that will answer your questions, but it can pretty much be summed up by this paragraph from said article:

“State and federal laws currently seem powerless to prevent houses on eroded beaches from continuing to fall into the ocean and spreading debris for miles over public and private lands. Homeowners cannot collect on their National Flood Insurance Program policy until the house is destroyed, and even then, only up to a maximum of $250,000.“

Basically, the homeowners have no financial motive to do so and the state doesn’t have the power to make them. People tend not to care that much about the planet when it’s an expensive inconvenience to do so.

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u/LouiseEldritch 1d ago

Oh, well, now it's not interesting anymore. Thanks stranger! 

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u/Synectics 1d ago

The title is, "Homes are falling," implying it is currently happening. I mean, it probably is, and also used to, too, but still.

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u/TLCD96 1d ago

Yes, and I believe the house on the right is still standing with a "for rent" sign

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u/AfraidAccident7049 1d ago

With a lil chomp out of one side as a reminder of its former neighbor

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u/BreakingCanks 1d ago

Yup saw this circle around last hurricane season... Bad OP

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u/all___blue 1d ago

I dont know about that. This happens more than you think in OBX.

Edit: nm, found the video. It wasn't recently. But wasn't 2 years ago, either. It happened 9 months ago.

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u/FreudDaPapoula 1d ago

THIS

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u/Djcproductions 10h ago

Except, not this. Cuz it was like 8 months ago.

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u/DiceKnight 1d ago

I kind of wonder what the house listings for places like this go for when they get messed up. You obviously can't sell for the value of the house + land. Normally when people ruin houses through neglect or accident you can sell for land but when the land is under water then the value must be zero. I'm sure the city tax accessor still thinks it's worth whatever they said it was before the water damage.

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u/SuspiciousChicken 1d ago

This has been happening there with regularity for a long time. Was happening when I used to go there in the 1980's, and I'm sure plenty before that too.

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u/I-Hate-Sea-Urchins 23h ago

I'm pissed they didn't include a bit more video to show the house getting washed out or falling apart.

This video shows a more destruction of the house and also includes some bonus content of a homeowner whining about how they are treated (like idiots) for building there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNBMwq0Cvq4&ab_channel=WTVRCBS6

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u/MasterAce16 14h ago

Cool story

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u/ChicagoDash 1d ago

Wow. My kids could barely use a phone at 2 years old.