Originally published at: Watch: 3rd home collapses on North Carolina beach (video)
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I’ll just leave this here:
According to local media, the bill was the handiwork of industry lobbyists and coastal municipalities who feared that investors and property developers would be scared off by predictions of high sea-level rises.
That was back in 2012.
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If you don’t have a beach front property in NC - just wait a while.
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I hope his insurance pay him out properly… how unforeseen this could happen.
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Even 30 years ago, I remember these houses being built on the beach, not even beach front. Literally either between the dune and the surf, or clearing the dune and putting the house where the dune was.
I also remember them being claimed by the ocean even back then.
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People used to migrate all the time when something in the environment changed and it was no longer sustainable to live there.
But we are sedentary now, it’s going to take literally falling in to the ocean to get some people to move. 
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“Morons ignore the blindingly obvious, news at 11.”
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Once the house is built you’re kinda screwed; few people can afford to just walk away from a piece of real estate and start over somewhere else.
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I just looked up oceanfront real estate in Rodanthe, NC on Zillow. Most homes in this neighborhood were built in the 1980s and 90s, and some that are up for sale sure look like they’re in a precarious spot.
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Yikes. I’ve seen sand castle building contests that were situated farther from the water line.
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Oh my god, who are these people building literally on the beach? It must be a cultural thing; where I live (California), no one would even consider doing this. (Actually, here, it would be illegal, the beach is considered public property.) People build house next to the beach or overlooking the beach but never on the beach.
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My spouse and I spent a week in the Outer Banks back in 1997 in a house like that. Most of the time it was lovely to be able to leave the windows open all night and hear the waves and to be able to walk down the steps right to the beach.
I already knew that actually living there wasn’t practical and an overnight storm that had us almost surrounded by water at one point made it even clearer.
TL;DR Nice place to visit. No one should really even try living there.
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To be fair, we Californians aren’t always known for the most prudent construction near the ocean either…
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These are second houses and investment properties with weekly rentals. They’re not primary residence.
There’s an interesting/sad/funny, in a dark humor way, thing in that Zillow link. If you click “Back to search”, then zoom the map in along the coast line. Zoom in far enough that the map switches to a satellite view and, more importantly, shows the lot boundary lines. There’s entire roads and lots that are in the water now. It looks better south of the campground, everything is farther back. North of it, there’s stuff like this:
That’s a cul-de-sac and 10+ lots in the ocean now. Destroying the protection dunes to build houses, not a great idea.
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Exactly. It’s going to be compounded by ecological forces. There will be times people just lose everything in a hurricane or flood and they won’t/can’t rebuild. Or like in the desert there is no water. Other may be forced to move, because all the jobs left.They would basically lose the equity in their house and ruin their credit - assuming they could find some other place they can move to.
There should be a gov. fund for certain areas where they buy the house or something so people can move. Though it shouldn’t apply to people who bough a third home that’s on a beach and gets washed out.
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