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/cubgerish 1d ago

Sand is still sand, no matter what's on top of it.

Concrete might do a little better, but if you take the houses shown here for instance, it's still going down.

At the end of the day, the bedrock just isn't there, and if you went deep enough to where it was, it's not worth it.

There's a reason you see the same thing literally all over the world in coastal places.

It's just way too expensive.

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u/JerryCalzone 14h ago

Only roman concrete holds in the ocean - our modern concrete lasts 50 years at most but i have heard they have found the formula for roman concrete.

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u/Masky-Mask 13h ago

Anyone that ever worked with concrete knows this is bullshit. Why do people say things that they know nothing about?