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The ocean eats 9 more houses....
This is being reported as bigly news .... the NC barrier islands move... always have, always will...
This wasn't even newsworthy when I visited the mostly desolate Outer Banks as a kid.... like leaves falling in the fall... I want to skool this bleach blond intern from UNC .... but she is cute.... "Bless her heart..." 
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As long as the wild horses are OK the rest is just stuff . Building that close to the ocean has risk and sometimes you lose .
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Look at it as the home now having an even better waterfront view.
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It's about ratings, not houses.
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It was only a short while ago the houses going in now were well back from the shoreline. More will go in shortly.
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The big mistake that these people make is not building their homes on pontoons so they float!
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Mother nature always wins. Sometimes it's a year, sometimes it's 20. Enjoy it while it lasts.
I've seen abandoned houses consumed by nature in 20 years. A cut field becomes woods in less than 20. When we're gone, our remnants will be consumed and regurgitated for the next occupiers of earth.
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Seems I remember a little ditty about a wise man building his house upon a rock.
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ask the mayans how stone houses worked out.
i was on the outer banks summer before last - the number of houses that looked like they were ready to topple was quite eye opening. |
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IDK if these are the ones to which you are referring:
but if so they're not what I'd call beachfront so much as ON the beach.
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I was part of a project in NC where the ocean steadily encroached upon the site boundaries. If we waited a couple years, we wouldn’t have been forced to blow our entire budget on a clean up as it would be all with nature… and by clean up, i mean cement footings and other non hazardous material.
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For 10,000 years or more since humans have lived on the coast... don't build on shifting sand! We have become $toopid ... and now it's "news" .No real point to this thread 
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As George Costanza said " the sea was angry that day my friends "
. OBX is the typical tourist trap with housing permits granted for areas there shouldn't be houses . Add to that rising oceans and then storms and it's a recipe for seasonal disaster . The people know it but the allure of big rental $$$ over rides common sense . Greedy plus stupid is a dangerous combination .
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OBX .... seeing that makes me cringe ... many trips (ferrys back then) to those remote islands ... there was ZERO access from the north....
One could walk for miles along the beaches and see 6 people fishing .... My last visit was in '97 ... it broke my heart to see what was and HAD happened... then. Knew I'd never return too.... truly "Paradise Lost" ... but not in my memories.... "They turned what was into something so disgusting, even wild dogs would disregard the bones" - DBT GOML  It is still an awesome place ... but "OBX" and touristy $$$. Sooooo.... all of you guys ... GOMOBX !
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What's wrong with building a house on a sand bar in a hurricane prone area? Just jack the house up 15' in the air on a bunch of 4x4s and you're good to go as they say.
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A buddy in Myrtle beach was shopping one these houses, but he had to have an elevator.
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Stop trying to PARF threads. otp-m3
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