2nd outer banks home collapses into the sea

[Demovictory9]

[NJCher]

1. Can you imagine being the homeowner and

Getting that phone call?

[Thtwudbeme]

2. They were expecting it; the house was empty

Insurance would not pay for the house to be demolished until it fell.

[Scrivener7]

5. And yet they left it to pollute the water when it did wash away.

[Thtwudbeme]

6. Yep. We live in NC. Years ago, I suggested that coastal homeowners

should be fully responsible for their homes.

You should read the comments on the local newspapers link to this story- "Why isn't the state taking care of this?"

Love me some "small government Republicans."

[Scrivener7]

10. Of course they should. But bootstraps are for other people.

[jimfields33]

7. Those homes didn't look secure to begin with

[mitch96]

8. Welcome to coastal cities of the future... Especially Miami Beach..

When you see the "rich and famous" running from Star Island and the Billionaire Bunkers, you will know it's bad... BTW mother nature does not care...
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[FSogol]

3. Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

William Bulter Yeats

[Scrivener7]

4. My favorite.

[hunter]

9. As I said in another thread, we need to figure out how to remove homes like this BEFORE...

... the ocean takes them.

We'll have to figure out how to relocate entire communities that become uninhabitable because of global warming.

If we don't there will be chaos. Climate change refugees won't be welcome in places that are still habitable, and this will be true even within the borders of the U.S.A..

We already have experienced something similar. During the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, "Okie" was not a term of endearment.

What terms of derision will we apply to people who have lost their homes and livelihoods to the sea? Or droughts? Or killer heat waves?

[greenjar_01]

11. Pretty sure most of these are summer homes

[Thtwudbeme]

13. Some are

But NC has permanent coastal communities that have been around for 200 years. Those are the folks that you read about that refuse to leave for hurricanes, etc.

This home was a summer home.

[hatrack]

12. Wow! Who could POSSIBLY have predicted this?!??!!

[Johnny2X2X]

14. Florida is going to be half gone

South Florida has no future, the Keys will be under water in the next couple decades.

[msfiddlestix]

15. Outerbanks had been a childhood vacation spot

We'd go on boat camping trips every summer when I was a kid. We'd launch our motor boat packed with camping gear and provisions to get us through the week and set out selecting the right "island" to make camp on, anchoring along the shore line.


one year we got caught in a hurricane after the first day. That's a childhood memory I'll never forget. it's frankly a wonder how we lived to tell about it. At the time, the family talked about wiring a piece about that misadventure for Readers Digest.

Never did, but it remains a tale told to my grandchildren which they never tire of listening to.

I'm sorry to see what's happened there.

[Demovictory9]

19. Looks like a lovely place to visit

[HAB911]

16. Nights in Rodanthe no more!

[malaise]

17. I sure wouldn't live there but I did notice

some spin off their coast since yesterday

[Amishman]

18. There are a lot of these that were built on or beyond the dunes on the NC coast

They don't allow it any more, and if an existing house that is too close to the water is destroyed, it cannot be rebuilt