Calling all illegal burritos.
The same exact problem facing the noted environmentalist, and 11x world champion, Kelly Slater and his beachfront Oahu neighbors is also foiling likeminded wealthy friends from Miami all the way up to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina’s premier surfing destination.
Namely, the ocean creeping up and up and up, flooding multi-million dollar properties, eroding front yards, destabilizing foundations.
Slater, of course, solved his immediate trouble through the usage of illegal burritos but apparently his wealthy friends in Cape Hatteras did not receive the memo as, days ago, their houses plunged into the sea.
Per ABC News:
Two beach houses have fallen into the waves along North Carolina’s coast, U.S. National Park Service officials said in a statement Tuesday.
The unoccupied homes were located along Ocean Drive in the Outer Banks community of Rodanthe. The park service confirmed both collapses Tuesday and has closed off the areas around the houses.
Debris from the first fallen house was spreading widely. Officials from the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, which is part of the park service, said they will be working closely with the homeowner to coordinate cleanup activities.
This is the third time a home has fallen into the surf this year. A house in Rodanthe collapsed in February and spread debris across many miles of beaches before the homeowner and volunteers were able to clean most of it up. However, clean up efforts for smaller pieces of debris continues.
“Unfortunately, there may be more houses that collapse onto Seashore beaches in the near future,” David Hallac, superintendent of National Parks of Eastern North Carolina, said in a statement. “We proactively reached out to homeowners along Ocean Drive in Rodanthe after the first house collapse and recommended that actions be taken to prevent collapse and impacts to Cape Hatteras National Seashore.”
Drat.
But might these destroyed homes make for bountiful new reefs?
One man’s trash another’s treasure?
Or should Kelly Slater teach the ways of illegal burrito to east coaster southerners who are more accustomed to illegal grits?
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This constructed forced community you are trying to make doesn’t exist. Women including Lesbians are appalled that this man was allowed to destroy surfing for women and steal the prize money. Absolute disgrace. No lesbians aren’t delighted we are disgusted and angry. Very very angry.
You tell ‘em Dane. Don’t ever change.
You do you.
Fake news. Climate change is a hoax!! :-\
Even during small storms, these houses had the high tide line up to their pilings.
4 days of 40-50mph onshore winds and stuff like this is inevitable.
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Send these folks to Bubbakoos for burritos so good they should be illegal
I took my double degree in Environmental Science and Computer Engineering and turned it into a semi lucrative career selling rare hip hop vinyl to the Swedes, Japanese, Germans( both East and West), French and more recently, Russians and Brazilians. Initially I just wanted to get paid to backpack but then I realized I’m culturally opposed to most hippy ideas of hygiene. And yes, my professors were saying the same shit 30 years ago as now.
Retire early. SELL BITCOIN NOW!
Records show that the whole island is steadily moving westward, and that the Atlantic side foreshore has retreated by about 400m (a quarter mile) in the last 150 yrs.
So it’s not as if it’s unexpected.
And apparently the insurance situation there is such that they will give a full payout to the owners of these houses which get eaten by the sea.
Whereas, if the owners volunteer to demolish or move the building they don’t get much of a financial helping hand.
A bit odd.
So you could say the problem is borne of stupidity and greed, like most of the world’s problems…
Mid year cut
You are a fascinating man….
Im no constructionologist but maybe building a house on a sandbar wasnt the best idea
Maybe it will create a nice reef break
Edit
Just read it.
Rodanthe pier is a surf location
He’s a West Coast chauvinist–what do you expect?
Cape Hater Ass?
Did a couple camping surf trips to Buxton when I was a teenager.
Scored it pretty excellent at the lighthouse one time.
You ever make it up there?
First trips were down from NoVa, back in high school. Same. In September on a hurricane swell = best thing about East Coast surfing.
We would head down from cape cod on Easter break. The water is still freezing up north then but Hatteras is warmish.