@@loualiberti4781 especially if you can’t afford to repair YOURSELF, taxpayers shouldn’t have to assist with your repairs which is what it is when the GENEROUS government uses our tax money to assist you !!!!
@@Mxclipss66if they were built on stilts to start with it was because there was always a risk for water washing through. I have no more words for people’s ignorance
@@Mxclipss66 Ok, and where was the builders’ foresight and plan for emergencies? It doesn’t take much to think that a shoreline could erode or tides could flow high. I realize that coastal predictions regarding how much shoreline erosion could happen may have been difficult back in the 1970s. But like another poster said, that these houses were built on stilts shows that the builders had some awareness of the dangers building close to the ocean, even if the houses were originally situated 100ft away. The "houses were 100yds back" argument doesn't change the impermanence of putting band-aids on the situation (like sand bags to mitigate erosion) or questionable, long-term solutions like beach nourishment, which more of the houses may be just swept out in the meantime. Allowing some of the houses just to sit empty, waiting for the inevitable. The shoreline erosion has been going on for years because while 13-14 ft of shoreline erosion is a lot, that's still many years. This predicament is also well-known problem, so at this point, it's culpable negligence or ignorance to keep these houses practically in the ocean. I realize that the tension of what to do has postponed resolving this issue further, and some homeowners are trying to resolve it by moving their house. But still. The quickest solution is to allow the homeowners some grace to handle the house in their own way. And if they can't or don't want to, condemn and carefully tear down with the least impact possible to the ecosystem. Allow this beach to be a beach.
As someone who grew up in North Carolina, these houses falling into the ocean don’t surprise me at all. The Outer Banks are giant sandbars. They move and change shape all the time. Human development has slowed down the process a bit, but nature will always win in the end. About 20 years ago, the current Cape Hatteras lighthouse had to be moved about a mile inland because it was threatening to fall into the ocean, too. The deforested track of land is still visible on satellite images. That lighthouse is actually the second Cape Hatteras lighthouse. The first is currently on the ocean floor a mile off the coast. It fell into the ocean around the year 1900. The only people who are surprised that these houses are falling into the ocean are people who don’t understand the nature of the islands. I’ll never own a house out there. Rent one? Sure.
My sister lives in the OBX and I lived on the beach in Virginia Beach. I never understood why these homes were built this way......the arrogance of man.
They are built this way so they can be washed away after serving their purpose of 40 years of summer rentals. It’s not a big deal. People build homes on a volcano in Hawaii. When it erupts let your house go.
@@bryanutility9609 and like they said, the arrogance of man to not even care what that does to nature. Nails , plastics, and all sorts of more crap that the ocean gets to fill up with. Humans aren’t the only ones that matter…
The market is supposed to be a buy plot, tear down, rebuild kind of market. But rebuilding got bloated with a lot of local bureaucracy so it’s very expensive and time consuming to tear down & rebuild. My father has a house 2 hours south of Rodanthe, it took 5 years for it to actually start being built.
@@maxismills a lot of that is because of federal flood insurance that allowed too large of houses to be built thus disincentivizing the correct kind of tear down structures. Not the whole problem but certainly makes it worse. Taxpayers are subsiding rich people’s vacation homes.
@@bryanutility9609 there’s private flood insurance. The people who own these houses are private investors who rent out these properties. Housing has a lot of rules there. For example, if you have more than two stories, you have to have an elevator. It locks out the market. It has unintended consequences as decades ago these houses would be torn down and rebuilt on a safer spot on the plot, they’re stuck in the spot. But at the same time the island is becoming a lot narrower so some plots are underwater. So there’s no place you can move these houses to on these plots, so they buy new plots, which have to follow the rules too, which takes more time, which creates situations like this. The homeowner was actually going to relocate the house, but it collapsed a week before the relocation was going to take place. If the housing market was actually allowed to be a market this wouldn’t happen because pointless bureaucratic processes that are meant to artificially inflate the cost of housing wouldn’t be taking up needed time.
It's very difficult to feel bad when people build a house on sand at the edge of the ocean. Especially when it's known that hurricanes come from that ocean EVERY year .
They built homes directly on unconsolidated sediment of the coastal plains..Sand 😁 I live in the Ohio Valley where rock bed was formed from seas in the area hundreds of millions of yrs again. Mainly limestone and shale where I live. Lots of underground caves and underground springs in Kentucky 😊
@@geminisunleomoonI like in PA and it is the same here. I just found out. They have a lot of sink holes. My neighbor has three "fairy circles" of fungus living under it. Should I be concerned about my house sinking or not? Thanks.
Coastal erosion is affecting communities all along the North Carolina coast. Homeowners, whether they inherited their properties or purchased them when there was ample beachfront with no threat of erosion, are now facing the devastating loss of everything, with no place to go. Many of these individuals, having lived below the middle class their entire lives, are now at risk of homelessness. This is not only a tragedy for the environment but for the affected families as well. For those who own a second property and do not rely on rental income to survive, waiting until the house falls into the ocean to receive compensation might be an option. However, this is not feasible for most people. Demolishing these homes before they are claimed by the ocean would result in a total loss-the house and the property-without the benefit of an insurance payout
It's just a matter of policy. If insurance companies faced cleanup costs if the home collapses into the ocean that exceed the cost of the alternative, if government policy changed etc, then things would be different.
I'm sorry but erosion has always been a fact of life in these kind of areas. If you didn't know it before purchasing a property from an area like this, EVEN if your property was a bit further from the ocean, then you either a) got scammed (depending on laws) or b) didn't do your homework. Even back in the days people who have lived and worked in these communities for generations could tell you that erosion is a natural in these coastal regions and that there are certain places where building is risky. However, some people actually bought their homes knowing the risk to at least some degree and just believed that erosion will take a few more decades and that they will have time to enjoy their property before it happens.
And OUR TAX MONEY shouldn’t pay, if you have money to buy beach front homes, you should have money to repair or rebuild !!!! Tired of the little guys having to pay for wealthy folks property damage.
Folks, it’s called the shifting sands of time. Islands and coastlines have been changing since the beginning of time. That is the chance people take when buying or building in such a location.
Don’t mess with Mother Nature! I grew up on Long Island where a good portion of ocean front in Suffolk county is state park land. The beaches are free of homes and are open for the public to enjoy. (With exception of the Hampton of course!) The state should not allow homes to be built anywhere near the ocean
I understand and mostly agree but I’m sure a lot of the homes were built a very long time ago. So the erosion wasn’t as intense and the coastline wasn’t nearly as close to the water as it is today. Also, I wouldn’t doubt a few of the homes have been within the same families for at least 2-3 generations. 😊 just wanted to say that. But yes if they know this is happening and buy or build homes right there, then yes.
Drift wood is healthy for sea birds, the particles help their gut digestion. There’s nothing wrong with it. He didn’t show you the trees that used to grow all the way out the beach that were washed away the same. This is the only area affected just a few houses. Media is always hype.
@@bryanutility9609 Houses are built with tons of toxic materials. Sure pure wood is good for the ocean. The treated wood saturated with chemicals is not. Neither are adhesives, paints, plastic, MDF, etc homes are full of.
This has been going on for small countries and communities across the globe for over a decade. In 2016 it was reported that 5 islands were lost. The Maldives are under threat and Nyangai Island may not make it til the end of the decade. Note, these folks don’t have giant 2 story homes, they live much closer to, and with the land. Countries across the world have been pleading for Americans attention. We are amongst the top 3 countries that have forced the environment to change so quickly. Now that it’s hitting home more intensely, perhaps in the next 10 years when, how many would you think, 10 Mil of us are impacted, 20 million, we will wake up and demand the changes we need in our own lives and in our communities.
People are saying don't put your house on the beach and then the problem solved but that's not true. They had land there but the ocean has come up so far there land no longer exists. You could build your house anywhere on that island and it still could flood.
Bingo this is nothing to do with climate change but is a natural part of the life cycle of barrier islands. Naturally the ocean tends to cut through them and then sort of rebuild the island behind itself
No cerca , no al pie del mar construiría vivienda , no dormiría un día , ni menos denoche , el mar tiene su secreto, mis respetos al mar , y la fuerza de su agua , es majestuosa , el de levanta cuando quiere , y quién lo detiene?
There is an easy solution. Number one overrule the Gestapo Park Service an do what was done to protect the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. Go take a look Mr enviro-reporter where the Hatteras lighthouse was located in the beach zone in Buxton and the solution will magically appear to you.
All the houses must go. There should be NO buildings within 10 to even 20 kilometres of the Ocean Front or any major river. It should all be habitat as it always was .. The houses behind those are not too far behind either..
They have been preaching about building your house on the sand for thousands of years. It doesn't take a scientist and a geological survey to understand why it's a bad idea.
I live on the coast in Washington. We're seeing the same thing here. We get dangerous King Tides every year too. The beaches are being swallowed, everywhere you go there are pipes and wires protruding from hillsides that used to be campground rv hookups or where houses used to be. Roads have been washed away and not rebuilt because the ground won't support a new one. Please dont worry about your possessions. Its just "stuff". Stay safe
What do they do for the owners? Do they own land under water or get compensated? Some ppl sold everything to build their dream beach home now the ocean took over
The houses get condemned when the ocean reaches the foundation, only options homeowners really have is pay out of pocket to move the home or wait for the ocean to take it down. Insurance only pays out when an act of god destroys the home
Its my understanding that these oceanfront houses are sold without deeded land. They are selling the structure only since the land underneath might not last.
The water IS rising and it’s eroding. Why would places like Amsterdam, Miami and NYC all have plans to mitigate ocean level rise if it wasn’t? But you will listen to a politicians denial over the stupid scientists and climatologists! You’re probably not going to have to worry about it though and our grandkids will. So why do you care?
@@weirdphax5406that’s it exactly. And coral reefs are just pretty. Never mind that they can’t sustain themselves anymore. But what do you care? It’s just our species at risk!
“Mom, my sand castle just got wiped out when high tide came in” the outer banks is a sand bar. What do you expect to happen when you construct houses on stilts near the ocean on a sand bar?
Why would you build on a shifting sand bar barrier island. They have no one to blame but themselves for building a structure in that location knowing full well the barrier islands constantly shift.
2024 had been one for the record books as for as natural disasters in the US and rising waters on coastal properties swallowing the homes. Florida and Cali have seen a lot of this this year as well.
Sad, but there is always good solution using good Engineering. These houses should be built with pile foundations deep into the ground and leave the ground floor empty. Of course this may cost more, but the houses will be definitely stable for next few decades, just like bridges are built
I’m at the outer banks now and we drove our truck up the beach where these houses are. It’s a 7 mile drive and during high tide we had to drive around them which put us in about a half foot of ocean water.
, you could build a corrosion resistant metal frame as a "foundation", and build up in the air with a passage below for high tide. But , it would cost quite a bit - the metal frame would last quite well , but a strong enough storm would still destroy the wood frame house, built on top of it.
@@tradeprosper5002 I’ve been hearing that for 50 years & my beach house is older than that nothing has changed & guess what! It’s only 15 miles from the place in the video.
@@bryanutility9609 Yeah right. Check with DOD and ask them what is happening to our navy bases. Norfolk among many others will have to be abandoned in the nest 30 years.
@@tradeprosper5002 that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard 😂. 30 years won’t be long enough to pay off the banking loans on beach hotels. No bank would give those loans if it was even an issue. “30 years”… that’s why they’re dredging the shallow water ways to for ships but also the water is rising. You sound ridiculous. according to Nobel prize winner Al Gore NYC & Florida we’re supposed to be under water by 2017 go watch his documentary.
Nice seeing people who think mother nature stays the same as if the oceans, rivers, lakes, and streams don't rise and lower same with the mountains, prairies, flatlands, and swamps it's all constantly changing you may not feel it or see it but it's guaranteed we can't stop it.
The wise man built his house upon the rock The wise man built his house upon the rock The wise man built his house upon the rock And the rains came tumbling down The rains came down and the floods came up The rains came down and the floods came up The rains came down and the floods came up And the house on the rock stood firm The foolish man built his house upon the sand The foolish man built his house upon the sand The foolish man built his house upon the sand And the rains came tumbling down The rains came down and the floods came up The rains came down and the floods came up The rains came down and the floods came up And the house on the sand went crash The rains came down and the floods came up And the house on the sand went crash!
The oldest story written by man. “What Nature giveth, Nature eventually taketh Away” no one should feel bad about this Natural occurrence. It’s like feeling bad for a man that builds a Log Cabin in the Colorado Rockies in a known avalanche zone. Poop 💩 is going to happen.
I want to send a ❤ prayer of peace for all the people who cherish memories associated with homes, schools, buildings of all kinds destroyed by storms, floods, tornadoes, fires, war or any kind of calamity. It is a devastating thing to imagine the place of your fondest family memories being crushed and devoured by overwhelming and indifferent forces. Ultimately, we all share a common home. These events should remind us all of our responsibilities as stewards of the truly rare and special planet that has been entrusted to us.
Condemn and tear down bc once the house is swept out, it will pollute the ocean more. Putting them up on higher stilts or whatever is just postponing for the inevitable. Moving the whole house could be a logistic nightmare, damaging the beaches further, even if careful because you're moving a whole damn house! Adding a more secure foundation isn’t really realistic with being practically on a fast receding shoreline. The only thing I can say is maybe when tearing down the house; try to repurpose some of its materials if possible + if there are historical/sentimental concerns. Beach nourishment is questionable because it may take years to see the real effects and finish development, which more houses may swept out in the mean time.
Why can’t they put it on a barge to save it and move it? I remember YEARS ago on the South side of Chicago (Lake Michigan) near the famous South Shore Country Club an old Victorian house 🏠 was saved by putting it on a barge and moving it to another location! My friends brother worked on the restoration 😎
I don’t understand one thing, why build on the beach? I am not any environmental scientist but I have seen enough to know that ocean water do come to front of beach a lot. I don’t know the name of this phenomenon, but someday they do. That’s why in so called “third world” countries, wall are built approximately half a mile from shoreline, beyond the wall, the road, and everything exists. In small rural areas, there may not be a wall at the beach , but a lot of gap and other areas have just huge rocks naturally or those artificial rocks that shaped a certain way put in.
Inlets are always trying to open and close on sand bars. The hurricane out in the water is making it more so. There’s nothing you can do but try and pipe up sand. These are summer rentals and it’s nothing new.
Why on earth would anyone build a house on beach sand? If these were built 50 years ago it’s a little more understandable but even still, why would you buy it anytime in the last couple decades. So dumb
Somehow I have a feeling that our tax money will pay for the problem. But building them back will be a mistake. These are vacation homes that shouldn't be here.
Don't rebuild the roads. So they'll STOP getting that government check to rebuild! Saving folks beach houses while I'm HOMELESS? BS!!! Screw us, right???... 🤬🤬🤬🤬
I don't understand why anyone at all chooses to have a home ON THE BEACH!! not like anyone will never ever ever have it ripped to pieces and lose everything almost asking for it. Maybe MOVE after this one ......
Solution:
STOP BUILDING ON THE BEACH !!!!!
@@loualiberti4781 especially if you can’t afford to repair YOURSELF, taxpayers shouldn’t have to assist with your repairs which is what it is when the GENEROUS government uses our tax money to assist you !!!!
To be fair, these houses were well away from the water when they were built.
Building huge houses on a sand bar. Genius.
Those houses were built a good while ago back then the ocean was at least 100 yards away from the homes
@@Mxclipss66if they were built on stilts to start with it was because there was always a risk for water washing through. I have no more words for people’s ignorance
@@Mxclipss66 Ok, and where was the builders’ foresight and plan for emergencies? It doesn’t take much to think that a shoreline could erode or tides could flow high. I realize that coastal predictions regarding how much shoreline erosion could happen may have been difficult back in the 1970s. But like another poster said, that these houses were built on stilts shows that the builders had some awareness of the dangers building close to the ocean, even if the houses were originally situated 100ft away. The "houses were 100yds back" argument doesn't change the impermanence of putting band-aids on the situation (like sand bags to mitigate erosion) or questionable, long-term solutions like beach nourishment, which more of the houses may be just swept out in the meantime. Allowing some of the houses just to sit empty, waiting for the inevitable. The shoreline erosion has been going on for years because while 13-14 ft of shoreline erosion is a lot, that's still many years. This predicament is also well-known problem, so at this point, it's culpable negligence or ignorance to keep these houses practically in the ocean. I realize that the tension of what to do has postponed resolving this issue further, and some homeowners are trying to resolve it by moving their house. But still. The quickest solution is to allow the homeowners some grace to handle the house in their own way. And if they can't or don't want to, condemn and carefully tear down with the least impact possible to the ecosystem. Allow this beach to be a beach.
@@Mxclipss66 10 yards or 100 yards, a sand beach is still a sand beach.
Surprise, surprise.
@@alanbellas513
The fact that they are "barrier" islands should have been a clue.
All that debris, metal, and toxic materials are hurting ocean life.
There is millions of ship underwater .. these house do nothing
10000x more trash flows into the ocean from litter coming down rivers than all those houses combined.
They will provide shelter for the fish and a good spot for new reefs to form, it’s a good thing
@@Andrew-ig5spthink you’re missing the whole point about the toxic minerals that metal disperses into the ocean mate
@@GrassgrassgrasThere's already toxic materials in the water, hence warnings about mercury in fish.
I hope they clean this up before anything else goes into the ocean
"There's no easy solution to the problem."
Well... there _is,_ but people who want to live near the water won't like it.
As someone who grew up in North Carolina, these houses falling into the ocean don’t surprise me at all. The Outer Banks are giant sandbars. They move and change shape all the time. Human development has slowed down the process a bit, but nature will always win in the end.
About 20 years ago, the current Cape Hatteras lighthouse had to be moved about a mile inland because it was threatening to fall into the ocean, too. The deforested track of land is still visible on satellite images. That lighthouse is actually the second Cape Hatteras lighthouse. The first is currently on the ocean floor a mile off the coast. It fell into the ocean around the year 1900.
The only people who are surprised that these houses are falling into the ocean are people who don’t understand the nature of the islands. I’ll never own a house out there. Rent one? Sure.
I remember the lighthouse being moved.
My sister lives in the OBX and I lived on the beach in Virginia Beach. I never understood why these homes were built this way......the arrogance of man.
They are built this way so they can be washed away after serving their purpose of 40 years of summer rentals. It’s not a big deal. People build homes on a volcano in Hawaii. When it erupts let your house go.
@@bryanutility9609 and like they said, the arrogance of man to not even care what that does to nature. Nails , plastics, and all sorts of more crap that the ocean gets to fill up with. Humans aren’t the only ones that matter…
The market is supposed to be a buy plot, tear down, rebuild kind of market. But rebuilding got bloated with a lot of local bureaucracy so it’s very expensive and time consuming to tear down & rebuild. My father has a house 2 hours south of Rodanthe, it took 5 years for it to actually start being built.
@@maxismills a lot of that is because of federal flood insurance that allowed too large of houses to be built thus disincentivizing the correct kind of tear down structures. Not the whole problem but certainly makes it worse. Taxpayers are subsiding rich people’s vacation homes.
@@bryanutility9609 there’s private flood insurance. The people who own these houses are private investors who rent out these properties. Housing has a lot of rules there. For example, if you have more than two stories, you have to have an elevator. It locks out the market. It has unintended consequences as decades ago these houses would be torn down and rebuilt on a safer spot on the plot, they’re stuck in the spot. But at the same time the island is becoming a lot narrower so some plots are underwater. So there’s no place you can move these houses to on these plots, so they buy new plots, which have to follow the rules too, which takes more time, which creates situations like this. The homeowner was actually going to relocate the house, but it collapsed a week before the relocation was going to take place. If the housing market was actually allowed to be a market this wouldn’t happen because pointless bureaucratic processes that are meant to artificially inflate the cost of housing wouldn’t be taking up needed time.
Those who bought across the street from the beach will now have prime ocean front property
Don't build half-million dollar houses on the beach...
They weren't half-million dollar homes when built, and they were a long way from the water.
It's very difficult to feel bad when people build a house on sand at the edge of the ocean. Especially when it's known that hurricanes come from that ocean EVERY year .
Who grants permits to build?
They were much further from the ocean at the time, and this area doesn't really take direct hits from hurricanes that often.
No easy solution? Don't build a house right on the beach.
Exactly 💯
These houses were built far away from the land and erosion tore it down
@@Calebreed289 apparently not far enough.
@@lizdaugherty5607 They were dozens of yards from the water, but this is a barrier island doing what barrier islands do.
Building homes on sliver of sand not really fit to be a parking lot. What could go right?
There was a very wide expanse of beach between house and water when they were built.
"Castles out of sand slips into the sea eventually." Jimmy Hendrix
Best Comment.
Dont build your house on the sand.. build it on a rock ...but not sand stone or gypsum..!!!
They built homes directly on unconsolidated sediment of the coastal plains..Sand 😁
I live in the Ohio Valley where rock bed was formed from seas in the area hundreds of millions of yrs again. Mainly limestone and shale where I live.
Lots of underground caves and underground springs in Kentucky 😊
Ok!!!!!
@@geminisunleomoonI like in PA and it is the same here. I just found out. They have a lot of sink holes. My neighbor has three "fairy circles" of fungus living under it. Should I be concerned about my house sinking or not? Thanks.
Don't build your house on sand build on a rock written in the bible but man knows better !!
@@geminisunleomoon
Yep, the geology has been known for a long time. Not even mentioning sea level rise that has been predicted for decades.
Coastal erosion is affecting communities all along the North Carolina coast. Homeowners, whether they inherited their properties or purchased them when there was ample beachfront with no threat of erosion, are now facing the devastating loss of everything, with no place to go. Many of these individuals, having lived below the middle class their entire lives, are now at risk of homelessness. This is not only a tragedy for the environment but for the affected families as well.
For those who own a second property and do not rely on rental income to survive, waiting until the house falls into the ocean to receive compensation might be an option. However, this is not feasible for most people.
Demolishing these homes before they are claimed by the ocean would result in a total loss-the house and the property-without the benefit of an insurance payout
It's just a matter of policy. If insurance companies faced cleanup costs if the home collapses into the ocean that exceed the cost of the alternative, if government policy changed etc, then things would be different.
I'm sorry but erosion has always been a fact of life in these kind of areas. If you didn't know it before purchasing a property from an area like this, EVEN if your property was a bit further from the ocean, then you either a) got scammed (depending on laws) or b) didn't do your homework. Even back in the days people who have lived and worked in these communities for generations could tell you that erosion is a natural in these coastal regions and that there are certain places where building is risky. However, some people actually bought their homes knowing the risk to at least some degree and just believed that erosion will take a few more decades and that they will have time to enjoy their property before it happens.
Foolish to think an ocean front stays the same over the years.
Obviously that's not a good way to build a house. Those poles seem to be like match sticks if stressed by strong waves.
Building on pilings is pretty standard for beach houses, due to storm surge from hurricanes.
Rich people problems.
And OUR TAX MONEY shouldn’t pay, if you have money to buy beach front homes, you should have money to repair or rebuild !!!! Tired of the little guys having to pay for wealthy folks property damage.
Exactly 💯 @@BeverlySpitfire
Those look like rich people homes to you?
Folks, it’s called the shifting sands of time. Islands and coastlines have been changing since the beginning of time. That is the chance people take when buying or building in such a location.
Beaches have been eroding since the beginning of time.
YT notes- CLIMATE CHANGE AHHHHHH
Climate change has increased the power and frequency of storms and is raising ocean levels so erosion is happening faster.
Your denial is just embarrassing yourself.
Yeah that’s not climate change, it’s hubris, the beach is never the same from moment to moment, a house built on sand will never stay standing .
Don’t mess with Mother Nature!
I grew up on Long Island where a good portion of ocean front in Suffolk county is state park land. The beaches are free of homes and are open for the public to enjoy. (With exception of the Hampton of course!)
The state should not allow homes to be built anywhere near the ocean
I agree. Leave the beach for everyone and dont try to own it.
Well , whoever gave them permits to build that close , knew it was inevitable this would happen . 💰💰💰💰💰🤑
Forty years ago?
@@LulaMae21 You think erosion is a new occurrence?
Charge them a boat load in fines for putting all that debris in the ocean. You knew it was a risk and still moved forward with construction.
I understand and mostly agree but I’m sure a lot of the homes were built a very long time ago. So the erosion wasn’t as intense and the coastline wasn’t nearly as close to the water as it is today. Also, I wouldn’t doubt a few of the homes have been within the same families for at least 2-3 generations. 😊 just wanted to say that. But yes if they know this is happening and buy or build homes right there, then yes.
Wow imagine seeing their homes fall into the ocean and come read a comment like yours.
Pretty asinine thing to say
Drift wood is healthy for sea birds, the particles help their gut digestion. There’s nothing wrong with it. He didn’t show you the trees that used to grow all the way out the beach that were washed away the same. This is the only area affected just a few houses. Media is always hype.
@@bryanutility9609 Houses are built with tons of toxic materials. Sure pure wood is good for the ocean. The treated wood saturated with chemicals is not. Neither are adhesives, paints, plastic, MDF, etc homes are full of.
They should at least remove the windows before abandonment- all that glass in the water not good!
This has been going on for small countries and communities across the globe for over a decade. In 2016 it was reported that 5 islands were lost. The Maldives are under threat and Nyangai Island may not make it til the end of the decade. Note, these folks don’t have giant 2 story homes, they live much closer to, and with the land.
Countries across the world have been pleading for Americans attention. We are amongst the top 3 countries that have forced the environment to change so quickly.
Now that it’s hitting home more intensely, perhaps in the next 10 years when, how many would you think, 10 Mil of us are impacted, 20 million, we will wake up and demand the changes we need in our own lives and in our communities.
How about since the nuclear bombs were tested in the 50's?
See What They Did To BIKINI?
Entire islands vanished.
This isn't due to climate change. This is the natural life cycle of barrier islands.
People are saying don't put your house on the beach and then the problem solved but that's not true. They had land there but the ocean has come up so far there land no longer exists. You could build your house anywhere on that island and it still could flood.
Where does wastewater go from those houses?
What did they expect? Just wondering.
This has been happening for decades. Nothing new. Barrier islands constantly shift.
Bingo this is nothing to do with climate change but is a natural part of the life cycle of barrier islands. Naturally the ocean tends to cut through them and then sort of rebuild the island behind itself
@@BrennanCh06Hurricanes cut new inlets all the time.
Hey, pro, take the dang gum out of your mouth. 😂
omg right ????
Outer Banks have been moving for millennia. It’s what sandbars di
No cerca , no al pie del mar construiría vivienda , no dormiría un día , ni menos denoche , el mar tiene su secreto, mis respetos al mar , y la fuerza de su agua , es majestuosa , el de levanta cuando quiere , y quién lo detiene?
There was an entire street and another row of homes in front of those. They weren't built precariously close. Brady doesn't explain the history.
What about the land? I'd be more upset about losing rights to the land.
Fortune Cookie of the Day:
Building a home on a sandy beach results an eminent conclusion.
There is an easy solution. Number one overrule the Gestapo Park Service an do what was done to protect the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. Go take a look Mr enviro-reporter where the Hatteras lighthouse was located in the beach zone in Buxton and the solution will magically appear to you.
All the houses must go. There should be NO buildings within 10 to even 20 kilometres of the Ocean Front or any major river. It should all be habitat as it always was ..
The houses behind those are not too far behind either..
Lol new to mankind, eh? People have always built near water.
They have been preaching about building your house on the sand for thousands of years. It doesn't take a scientist and a geological survey to understand why it's a bad idea.
I live on the coast in Washington. We're seeing the same thing here. We get dangerous King Tides every year too. The beaches are being swallowed, everywhere you go there are pipes and wires protruding from hillsides that used to be campground rv hookups or where houses used to be. Roads have been washed away and not rebuilt because the ground won't support a new one.
Please dont worry about your possessions. Its just "stuff". Stay safe
The ignorance in the comment section makes me lose hope for humanity.
Water will always win.
Don't build on Ocean
What do they do for the owners? Do they own land under water or get compensated? Some ppl sold everything to build their dream beach home now the ocean took over
You're one of those people who thinks everything is fair, huh?
Have I got some news for you!
The houses get condemned when the ocean reaches the foundation, only options homeowners really have is pay out of pocket to move the home or wait for the ocean to take it down. Insurance only pays out when an act of god destroys the home
Its my understanding that these oceanfront houses are sold without deeded land. They are selling the structure only since the land underneath might not last.
@@pepawg2281What! You cannot build on land you do not own. 😂😂😂
The water isnt rising, its called erosion
It is both.. sea levels are rising which is contributing to the erosion plus increasingly powerful storms from climate change.
@@nanciebarnett5518 climate change? Maybe the Earth was once warmer and getting back to where it was before the ice age
The water IS rising and it’s eroding. Why would places like Amsterdam, Miami and NYC all have plans to mitigate ocean level rise if it wasn’t?
But you will listen to a politicians denial over the stupid scientists and climatologists!
You’re probably not going to have to worry about it though and our grandkids will. So why do you care?
@@weirdphax5406that’s it exactly. And coral reefs are just pretty. Never mind that they can’t sustain themselves anymore. But what do you care? It’s just our species at risk!
Sounds like a millionaires problem
I feel so bad you lost your ocean front summer home you built next to the ocean? 🙄🙄
It made them money for 50 years don’t worry
Most of those homes were built decades ago before the water was that close. The houses weren’t built on the beach, the beach came to the houses.
@@mo_1010 It was already coming when they built them. Mother nature always wins.
It's the local government's fault for allowing the construction in the first place, then not telling people to relocate afterwards.
These were built decades ago.
A wise man builds his house upon a rock.
We already know what the Bible said
Yep. Thou shalt not build thine home upon stilts near the water, for the water is swift and vengeful. -- Ephemeris 9/28
😂😂😂😂yep essentially @@zedmelon
“Mom, my sand castle just got wiped out when high tide came in” the outer banks is a sand bar. What do you expect to happen when you construct houses on stilts near the ocean on a sand bar?
Why would you build on a shifting sand bar barrier island. They have no one to blame but themselves for building a structure in that location knowing full well the barrier islands constantly shift.
2024 had been one for the record books as for as natural disasters in the US and rising waters on coastal properties swallowing the homes. Florida and Cali have seen a lot of this this year as well.
Sad, but there is always good solution using good Engineering. These houses should be built with pile foundations deep into the ground and leave the ground floor empty. Of course this may cost more, but the houses will be definitely stable for next few decades, just like bridges are built
I was a teenager when these houses were built. Engineers were consulted. Assurances were made.😢 Mother nature wins another one.
I can only imagine the person just sending the final mortgage payment and then see the ocean claiming it. 😮
In Florida they built up the beaches for hurricanes, works a charm
I’m at the outer banks now and we drove our truck up the beach where these houses are. It’s a 7 mile drive and during high tide we had to drive around them which put us in about a half foot of ocean water.
I’m sorry, but almost 99% of people that can afford to live in that area on a beachfront can literally afford to move anywhere else
, you could build a corrosion resistant metal frame as a "foundation", and build up in the air with a passage below for high tide. But , it would cost quite a bit - the metal frame would last quite well , but a strong enough storm would still destroy the wood frame house, built on top of it.
There is a Bible parable about this. I remember learning a song about it in Sunday school. The wise man builds his house upon the rock ....
Should never have had homes built on sand
It’s really not a big deal my house there is fine built 50+ years ago.
@@bryanutility9609 For now. The Sea is coming....
@@tradeprosper5002 I’ve been hearing that for 50 years & my beach house is older than that nothing has changed & guess what! It’s only 15 miles from the place in the video.
@@bryanutility9609 Yeah right. Check with DOD and ask them what is happening to our navy bases. Norfolk among many others will have to be abandoned in the nest 30 years.
@@tradeprosper5002 that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard 😂. 30 years won’t be long enough to pay off the banking loans on beach hotels. No bank would give those loans if it was even an issue. “30 years”… that’s why they’re dredging the shallow water ways to for ships but also the water is rising. You sound ridiculous. according to Nobel prize winner Al Gore NYC & Florida we’re supposed to be under water by 2017 go watch his documentary.
Nice seeing people who think mother nature stays the same as if the oceans, rivers, lakes, and streams don't rise and lower same with the mountains, prairies, flatlands, and swamps it's all constantly changing you may not feel it or see it but it's guaranteed we can't stop it.
It’s a house…
It’s a boat…
It’s a ……
If mangroves could thrive, it would help slow down the erosion.
One unusually high tide ... 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
The wise man built his house upon the rock
The wise man built his house upon the rock
The wise man built his house upon the rock
And the rains came tumbling down
The rains came down and the floods came up
The rains came down and the floods came up
The rains came down and the floods came up
And the house on the rock stood firm
The foolish man built his house upon the sand
The foolish man built his house upon the sand
The foolish man built his house upon the sand
And the rains came tumbling down
The rains came down and the floods came up
The rains came down and the floods came up
The rains came down and the floods came up
And the house on the sand went crash
The rains came down and the floods came up
And the house on the sand went crash!
always thought putting a house on the beach was dumb...Jesus taught me that as a child
The oldest story written by man. “What Nature giveth, Nature eventually taketh Away” no one should feel bad about this Natural occurrence. It’s like feeling bad for a man that builds a Log Cabin in the Colorado Rockies in a known avalanche zone. Poop 💩 is going to happen.
I want to send a ❤ prayer of peace for all the people who cherish memories associated with homes, schools, buildings of all kinds destroyed by storms, floods, tornadoes, fires, war or any kind of calamity. It is a devastating thing to imagine the place of your fondest family memories being crushed and devoured by overwhelming and indifferent forces. Ultimately, we all share a common home. These events should remind us all of our responsibilities as stewards of the truly rare and special planet that has been entrusted to us.
Ocean front property doesn’t stay ocean front for long. Eventually your neighbor across the street will get a turn
Condemn and tear down bc once the house is swept out, it will pollute the ocean more. Putting them up on higher stilts or whatever is just postponing for the inevitable. Moving the whole house could be a logistic nightmare, damaging the beaches further, even if careful because you're moving a whole damn house! Adding a more secure foundation isn’t really realistic with being practically on a fast receding shoreline. The only thing I can say is maybe when tearing down the house; try to repurpose some of its materials if possible + if there are historical/sentimental concerns. Beach nourishment is questionable because it may take years to see the real effects and finish development, which more houses may swept out in the mean time.
Why can’t they put it on a barge to save it and move it? I remember YEARS ago on the South side of Chicago (Lake Michigan) near the famous South Shore Country Club an old Victorian house 🏠 was saved by putting it on a barge and moving it to another location! My friends brother worked on the restoration 😎
I don’t understand one thing, why build on the beach? I am not any environmental scientist but I have seen enough to know that ocean water do come to front of beach a lot. I don’t know the name of this phenomenon, but someday they do. That’s why in so called “third world” countries, wall are built approximately half a mile from shoreline, beyond the wall, the road, and everything exists. In small rural areas, there may not be a wall at the beach , but a lot of gap and other areas have just huge rocks naturally or those artificial rocks that shaped a certain way put in.
Inlets are always trying to open and close on sand bars. The hurricane out in the water is making it more so. There’s nothing you can do but try and pipe up sand. These are summer rentals and it’s nothing new.
Stop building homes so close to the beach water that way other people can enjoy
Shouldn't have been allowed to build that close
They weren't. There was a wide stretch of beach between the houses and the ocean.
@LulaMae21
Yeah but you don't build your house on sand though
This is actually called global stupidity. These are the same people that say get off my beach.
What’s the problem here exactly? Oceans erode beaches… so what?
Ahhh that new beach front property trump said would come about .....
😂😂😂😂😂
Pass laws that ban houses on beaches like the outer banks and condemn the current houses and Remove the houses asap
There's no solution those houses are going into the sea, its a question of time.
Dont build ur house on the sand, build it on the rock( more than one application here).
Building a house in the sand with wood, what could possibly go wrong 🤫😵🥹🤢😳
The sea is eating our land its called. Grannite barriers are expensive but in ghana sea defence walls have helped quite a bit
Wow so sad for all
Why on earth would anyone build a house on beach sand? If these were built 50 years ago it’s a little more understandable but even still, why would you buy it anytime in the last couple decades. So dumb
Used to love the outter banks ..and just bought a sailboat in Elizabeth City...so erosion isnt an issue for me...except Im saddened
Why are you sad lol? 😂 do you not know about the Ash Wednesday storm of 1962? Over 50 years ago.. nothing that bad has happened since.
Somehow I have a feeling that our tax money will pay for the problem. But building them back will be a mistake. These are vacation homes that shouldn't be here.
Geniuses building houses on the eroding beach 🙄🙄
Should have never built there ,it could have been a nice park
Oh look honey....a perfect spot to build our new house made from match sticks....right next to that volcano .
It was ridiculous to build them there in the first place.
Who builds a house on sand
Mother Nature just taking back whats hers.
Don't rebuild the roads. So they'll STOP getting that government check to rebuild! Saving folks beach houses while I'm HOMELESS? BS!!! Screw us, right???... 🤬🤬🤬🤬
Nobody is rebuilding when there's nowhere to rebuild.
Nothing new in rodanthe I love how people are so concerned like this is something new
The foolish man built his house upon the sand. Not sure what they were expecting.
A lot of the fault goes to the city's building codes that allowed for these homes to be built on the beach. $$$
And Trump says global warming is a hoax. Right.💙💙
The wise man didn't build his house upon the sand...
I don't understand why anyone at all chooses to have a home ON THE BEACH!! not like anyone will never ever ever have it ripped to pieces and lose everything almost asking for it. Maybe MOVE after this one
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