I’ve been to the Outer Banks.
It’s really pretty.
It’s also really flat.
There won’t be much left soon enough.
My wife’s family used to have a vacation home on Ocracoke. One year her mom bought some romance novel for a beach read that was set on Ocracoke, it seemed appropriate.
It was pretty clear that the writer had never been to Ocracoke or even bothered looking at Google maps because they talked about the cliffs by the sea.
It’s a glorified sandbar, just about the biggest elevation changes you’ll find are some dunes and the curb stepping off a sidewalk onto the road, nothing even remotely resembling a cliff.
has lost seven homes to the ocean in the past four years.
I sleep.
- The Climate is always changing
- we will have more waterfront property
- antartica is gaining ice
- CO2 is good for plants
- sea level rise is exaggerated
- scientists are in it for the Gov money
- We’re coming out of a little ice age
- they want to ban cows
- There is no consensus
- volcanos did it
I do believe I read this. Changing weather patterns, including warmer air, created more snowfall in some parts of Antarctica. Remember that the interior is all desert, too cold for snow…. Or was
Of course it’s also like saying Death Valley had a flood, so California’s water shortage is solved
It’s been going on for years. People just make dumb decisions trying to get as close to the water as possible.
https://www.nps.gov/caha/learn/historyculture/movingthelighthouse.htm
Looks like that one in the background is next.