Erosion Rate 13 ft per year Mirlo Beach Rodanthe, NC
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- Опубліковано 22 лют 2024
- Mirlo Beach, Rodanthe, North Carolina where the erosion rate is 13 feet per year. Home owners are faced with the dilemma of paying out of pocket to move their homes as far back as possible on their current property or to a new location. Let Mother Nature take them out to sea or tear them down and lose their investment completely. Dare County contacted me last fall to use some of my photographs of many storms and the rapid coastal erosion over the years, to apply for a federal grant for a beach nourishment project in Rodanthe, NC. The almost $42 million grant application filed earlier this month (February 2024) with FEMA under the Rodanthe Storm Damage Mitigation Project. The cost will be shared between Dare County and the federal government, the federal government picking almost all of the cost. If my work can be used to help this part of Cape Hatteras the island I call home, then all my photojournalism will be worth it. To read more about the grant check out the article:www.outerbanksvoice.com/2024/... few facts:The erosion rate in this area is 13 feet per year. These homes were built many years ago when there were large beaches and dunes protecting them from the ocean. The Outer Banks is a constantly changing barrier island. The homeowners are responsible for starting the moving process and funding the move out of pocket which can cost upwards to hundreds of thousands of dollars. If their home falls in the ocean they are responsible for the costly cleanup and most insurance policies only cover up to $250,000. A rebuild permit cannot be issued for these oceanfront homes, but they can be issued permits to move their home as far back from the ocean on their current property.
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No taxpayer money should be spent to remedy poor decision making. That's a sand bar that is going to erode.
I live down the street and have a serious problem with my tax dollars bailing out these property owners, virtually none of whom live here. If they want sand, let them pay for it themselves.
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I have owned a place in South nags head since 2005. It wasn't always oceanfront there used to be 2 homes in front of it. The sand replenishment/ beach nourishment has been a life saver. Of course they are doing it every 4 years. My question is almost all areas of OBX get nourishment multiple times every few years but why not rodanthe when it's got this bad. I heard they are surveying and studying the area for it but that will take a few years. I have a buddy who works for the dredging companies when they replenish the beach. He said rodanthe is under the mind frame spend millions to make billions
@@JasonWood. The sand is there to protect 12, not your house. There is no reason for taxpayers to bail out people who made a bad investment, especially because zero percent of them live here.
Bail out the residents to help them buy homes elsewhere, but let those who bought/built houses there as investments to rent out eat the loss. They took the risk, they should pay the price.
The ocean has reclaimed that strip of land. This erosion will not reverse or stop. The only option is to move, even if it means taking a loss.
Sunday school song Don’t Build Your House On Sinking Sand. 😢
Nature is constantly reshaping the earth! Islands have come and gone, mountains turned to plains, plains turned into mountains!!!
That isn't what is happening in this case.
If its not natural, then what is? We are nature as well.
@@DogBrotherhood cancer is natural, then. You are cancer.
Once you see a bird's eye view it became immediately evident how completely useless it is to push sand back where the beach was.
Years ago,in a hearing somewhere,some ppl decided that climate change, didn't exist,in my honest personal American opinion. That personally,saw it going 20 year's ago. Thanks for real photos,and, showing the poor,how the rich live.
She's angry!!
AWESOME footage!!
Thank you!!!
I have wonderful memories of vacationing in Rodanthe and the Outer Banks. It is a shame that future generations will not have these memories. But I can't help but wonder whether residents and owners don't believe in big government and socialism, yet want taxpayers to pay part of the cost of saving their cottages
The people who live here don't want any taxpayer subsidies. That's the outsiders who own these dogs.
Anyone who ignores the risk of building on sand this closes to an ocean can eat the loss. I don’t care how much beach disappeared due to erosion. It’s sand. It’s a bad choice.
Maybe they could just turn this entire island into the state’s largest free public park and RV campground. I certainly would enjoy visiting.
Poseidon flexing his muscles. The remainder of that spit of land that should never have been built upon will be returned to the sea as well.
My family vacations down there every August. It is my happy place. I think the Black Pearl will stand until completely submerged. That would be better than her collapsing into the water. We never stayed there, but it was always the first house i noticed coming into Rodanthe over the years. Thanks for this amazing video!
Looks like it's time to red tag those homes!
Sadly you can't fight the ocean. This should be a warning to all settlements on coastlines around the world.
We're all just a few meters from a major life change. A life change many of us may live to see.
These properties serve as the "canary in the coal mine" to warn us what will happen and how puny our efforts to stop it really are.
That picture of the one puny Earth moving machine working against the entire Atlantic ocean, was the perfect shot.
Build at your own risk, nothing wrong with that. It is unAmerican to be jealous of those that have more though.
I follow you on Facebook. I love your pictures and videos
Thank you so much, Jason! I appreciate your support.
Kinda sad watching that loader try and fight the ocean..............will never win that fight.
Im sorry but people should simply not be allowed to build in areas like this.
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I love the coast but the outer banks was never my favorite. Surf city or wrightsville are better choices. I did notice them adding sand to wrightsville about a month ago.
What is going to Happen to Hatteras ? 13 ft per year ? There will be nothing left of it in 10 years. Is there anything being done to stop or slow down the erosion ?
the erosion rate in Rodanthe, is 13 feet per year, it varies per zip code.
Underwater, they've only been warning us for decades. don't build close to the ocean.
Sand will move and relocate at different rates. Forming new bars and shoals. And some will be lost all togather. The truth is, it is near impossible to actually prevent this from happening. In days gone by, people would not have built permanent structures. They will be lost. A summer cabin with no running water and oil lamps is one thing. Especially the ones on skids that you could move with a tractor. But those folks got moved out or lost to a hurricane eventually. So these folks moved in. And built... this. Raising homeowners insurance by the way amongst other costs to the community
Cnut - or Canute if you prefer - tried to do that. The ocean is inexorable. You might slow it down for a year or two if you want to throw enough money at it. But the next severe storm that coincides with a King tide will undo all of that expensive work. And who pays? The tax payers who could never afford to live there in the first place?