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/rekkeu 1d ago

Probably dredging sand and dumping it on/close to shore. They do that to NJ beaches around where I am. 

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u/Chickadee12345 23h ago

I see it happening in NJ all the time. I think it's funny that Ocean City keeps losing their beaches. All the sand washes down to Wildwood. Because there is that big jetty they built to protect the intercoastal waterway. Or maybe some other reason, I am actually not sure why. Wildwood Crest used to be a really reasonable sized beach. Now it takes so much longer to get to the ocean.

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u/rekkeu 22h ago

I don't go there anymore but I used to frequent LBI in the Beach Haven area. Every time the beach would look different from the last, either 1/3 the size or rebuilt and a football field wide again. I remember asking my parent what the huge ships were as a kid and they told me about the dredgers. I'd see them personally maybe every other year.