Here's the pic published with the story.
Here's the pic published with the story.
I want a simple answer. .is water rising or the land sinking? A survey either old school or gps will tell you... you give me that first answer and if the water is rising then we will talk why
I used to live here. Years ago you could occasionally ,at an extremely low tide with a washed out beach, see the stumps of trees in the water. Some of the cottages in the Nags Head area were one hundred yards further east than where they are today. That is pretty far out in the ocean. The beach sand has been heading south for a hundred years before the global warming obsession.
I don’t know the answer to this problem but it is not new.
Matthew 7:24-27
New International Version (NIV)
The Wise and Foolish Builders
24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”
My family used to vacation/camp at Nagshead and Hatteres during the 50s. One time there was a storm and the next day the word went round that the road north out of Hatteres was cut and would take 3 days to repair which didn’t bother us cause we still had a weeks more vacation to go. Found the best seashells ever for the next few days.
Try to fix and reinforce the pillings with concrete and the EPA will be all over their butt. What they might be able to do with this is lower and move the structure inland and relocate it. Even doing this is going involve reams (500 sheets) of paperwork in dollars and permits.
It says it’s for rent. I’ll bet we could get a sweet deal on this little honey !
I grew up in the Va Beach area and summered in the Nags Head area and it is a known fact people have always built too close to the oceanfront up and down the coast. They compromised the sand dune lines and eventually a storm will wash away the dunes. That happened years ago in Kitty Hawk and many people lost homes and today there is not enough on the beach side of the ocean road to build.