I helped build those buildings at the beginning after Hurricane Emily piled all of the motels there up against the dunes that are no longer there. In 99 I lost my truck just a few hundred yards north when I misjudged the sets of waves after the highway was washed out. That hurricane, Dennis, hit us three times and got old really fast.
I lived there for 8 yrs and loved it,but I can tell mother nature is reclaiming herself.Now I can only wonder how much longer this place will stay above water.thats not even a hurricane either...
Beautiful and relaxing. I worked a little bit in Buxton for a surveyor. At one point we were surveying a couple lots right on the beach near where the lighthouse used to be. I had to pinch myself that I was there and getting paid for it.😊
Thats the Cape Hatteras Motel. Have stayed there a couple of times for extended stays while building houses there. I know from experience that storms consistently overflow that section of street and parking lot. The storms also dump up to 5 feet of sand in their parking lot.
This is how it started in Florida on North Captiva off coast from Ft, Meyers , now those homes are down , washed away . That was 5 years ago and they had large beach before.
I feel for the owners of those houses on the ocean front. Ocean front living has it's pro's and con's. I lived in a condo in Manteo for 3 yrs. When we had a high tide and the wind blew hard from a certain direction we had flooding under the condo's and in the parking lots. I loved every minute I was there. You can fight Mother Nature but you can't stop her.
I was stationed at the naval facility in Buxton . The base was closed while I was there . Had many storms that closed roads the year I was there . It was a wonderful place to be stationed with amazing fishing and surfing . I though at the time when done with the navy I would come back to Buxton and live . Very affordable at the time to be so close to the beach but that was many moons ago as real estate has gone through the roof on this small strip of land .
1990 I drove through Buxton. I remember there was a hurricane 300 miles out. Part of 12 had over wash even then. I can't even imagine how much erosion has taken place since 1990 and how many homes I'm seeing in this video right on the beach, or what's left of the beach!
Perhaps one of the most tenuous and threatened pieces of land on the eastern seaboard. A fishing friend and I fished annually for many years. A beautiful place with an abundance of places to fish and recreate. I miss my annual trips to a beautiful area.
This area is my favorite vacation spot. Been going to the Outer Banks for over 50 years, the sea has always been trying to reclaim her land. We humans are not wise building on what is basically a sand bar trying to roll over and we are impeding that process. So sorry to see the situation is getting dire.
@@thugsfunny7594 absolutely, as climate change has raised sea level, there are many places that will be lost. This is just the place I vacationed since I was a kid and I have fond memories of it not being under water.
Actually, the country is full of vacation “ghost towns”. Most are now long gone without a trace. My own Bronx born-raised father spent his 1920s childhood vacations in a cottage community in the south end of Staten Island. Long gone. The creation of nearly every national park and national recreation area in the country involved some amount of purchasing, decommissioning and demolition of vacation developments. If WE can do it then certainly mother nature can…and it is not necessary a sad thing. It is what humans do when they adapt and move. My own family “lost” our 1960s vacation home for the Delaware River National Recreation Area and frankly the area looks far far better today than it looked 50 years ago.
Outer Bank North Carolina. That is how some people like to build there home. I been there one time. So beautiful guys. So peaceful with ocean front. My dream home.
I live 600 miles to the west in Knoxville, TN. But, if anything, Buxton has become a second home to me. I started staying every fall there starting 10 years ago in 2012. The last couple of years, I've had to park my truck on the main road and walk to the house I love called Zen Den due to the street being flooded excessively. It's sad, but mother nature is in charge of those sandbars, not man.
This overwash occurs regularly. I remember 1988 Columbus Day swell pushing through. However, it seems to me that it has been occurring far more regularly over the past decade or two.
Bonefish boards (7 Months ago) "💓LORD💓" HAVE MERCY ON MANKIND! ....been Occuring far More Regular over the past decades or two? MANKIND (so to speak) ain't Seen nothing Yet!!
I was just there on vacation a month ago. Beautiful in so many ways. The ocean is definitely trying to reclaim the Outerbanks. Especially the lower area around Hatteras. Music behind the video? Really? How about the sound of the ocean? Nonetheless, thank you for the update.
pretty bad especially if it was the outgoing tide. Incoming? The worst is yet to come on the incoming. sandy survivor, Union Beach NJ Oct. 2012 Thanks for posting. didnt know this happened right on my new coast. in NC since 1998, back here and forth during the sandy yrs.
They will all be taken by the sea in time......that's a definite...sad but true........Could never understand houses built on the beach... crazy crazy.....🤔🤔
Love that island, but it's such a fragile place. I was wondering how Avon fared in the storm. The beach nourishment hopefully will help for a few years, but one bad storm such as this.....
Wow I live by Myrtle Beach there's mostly dunes between the beach and house's. Guess when you build on a peninsula that's not that wide it's a risk you take. Emerald isle same thing pretty much, but I love that area. Next bad hurricane will take those out looks like the sand is washing away.
My family have lived on the Outer Banks since the 1700s at least. Never build on the ocean side. The only way to mitigate risk is to build in the Sound side.
I understand these are unique conditions that the fishing is supposedly potentially outstanding when this is happening. I'm not a fisherman. Can't prove it by me.
It's sad that a lot of us who have lived near this coast know what's coming. My family is all from here (not this area specifically, haha) but each time a storm blows over I wonder if it'll be those waves that first crash into the sound.
Well there is more water 💦 than land history taught us one day the water will take over the land. But this is where the people want to live out by the water. This is what happens.
We sold our house there in July 2018. Not even a hurricane and its like this. I'd be alarmed. Not even the ferry running. I'm glad I'm not on the east coast anymore.
If you brought rocks and boulders in like they have in Scotland...all those sandbags and nourishment would be unnecessary... their coastline hasn't changed much in the last thousand years.
The Great Wall Of America Across The Sands On The Oceans Beaches Etc... Coming Soon Beneath The Surface Volcano Pacific Ocean Ring Of Fire Artificial World Reclamation Area
I hope all of this is self insured It stinks that other businesses, and home owners, have to pay substantially higher insurance because these people are fools.
No public money should be made available to morons that build or purchase property adjacent to that large body of water, especially wet water and find their property washed away.
