OCEAN OVERWASHING in Cape Hatteras, NC | 10/11/19 

Brett Barley herd anything about Ocracoke with this swell?

@@davidgrammer799 the road got flooded some... but it's been inundated with sand and water for weeks anyway. wasn't too much wrapping round to the south facing side of the islands.

it was a huge swell... 13ft 15sec. it was 25-30ft out the back... breaking to the horizon. Plus we've had the hurricane swell, and a few others in the last month, so the beaches were beat up already. this being the biggest swell of the 4, made for easy over wash and flooding.

Yes, its due to the large storm that formed off the east coast. The Barrier Islands are constantly being eroded by waves, wind, and currents. Barrier Islands are actually moving slowly towards the Main Land. A lot of people like to attribute beach flooding during storms to sea level rise. It not due to sea level rise (which is so extremely small (per decade - despite the news hype). It's from erosion (wave action and currents). Beaches all along the East Coast and Gulf Coast are constantly rebuilt with new sand (dredging, dumping by truck, or pumping sand from offshore onto the beaches to fight erosion. It's a constant battle because large waves want to take sand from the beach and pull it back out to sea. Yes, I have a degree in Science and Geography (wrote papers on beach erosion) along with being a surfer.

@@BLACK05GO1 makes sense. 👍

@@BLACK05GO1 is the island off the point from dredged sand washing down?

@@lazer3150 that island off the point had nothing to do with dredge sand... it formed before they even started the nourishment that year. It forms every so often under certain weather conditions that move the sand just right. While that was the biggest island that's ever formed off cape point, it was hardly the first. The island connected to the point come September of that year. Hasn't formed since.

Like everywhere in the paths of tornados, floods due to rain, blizzards, and fires?? Cause no matter where you go, you’re going to run into issues due to natural elements. These buildings are built to withstand those elements and they have for decades. Please take into consideration, the fact that when those buildings were built, the beach was actually much further out too. No one built em on the water. Ocean overwash has been something Islanders have dealt with for forever though. It’s part of living here, and you have to accept that if you want to live here Stuck here on purpose...

It only looks like this at high tide for 1-3 days during a massive storm… otherwise water levels fine and beaches are normal.

The waves were awful... drone view from hundreds of feet up can skew perspective. It was 12ft+ and onshore.

@@brettbarley Good to know! I don't generally spend time hundreds of feet up. 😂

100%

Funny you say that. I was there during this filming. I had to just replacement rotted about bumper thus week in order to pass inspection. I have to get both of my vehicles undercoated to slow down progression of rust. I'm from PA! I only come down 2 to 4 weeks every year. I could only imagine if I lived there.

It’s expensive on the oceanfront... very few actually leave right near the beach. Most locals live away from the water more. But insurance is like anywhere else... depends on the flood zone you’re in. Some areas here are high enough you don’t even need flood insurance.

i have before... but not in a long time. cool game though!

that last car was the smarter one, waiting for the set of waves to finish so they could drive through after the water stopped rushing.

only if they walked through the road... the parking lot was dry.

Not true… it’s happened.

It was a typical Nor'Easter prior to officially turning into Tropical Storm Melissa... It just battered us so hard cause our beaches had been taking a beating from other swells, plus the hurricane, for 4 weeks straight. This was the biggest, most powerful of 5 swells, and it came riding right behind the other 4, so it just did more damage. Had this same swell hit after a period without any significant storms, it wasn't big enough to do the damage it ended up doing...

@@brettbarley Im in OCMD. Definitely the biggest swell of the last several. I still wouldn't consider it either a Nor'Easter or a Tropical Storm. Like it was originally called - a "non-tropical low" - it formed off of the Delmarva coast and dissipated 5-6 days later, was absorbed into the northern Atlantic low spinning out of Canada/Greenland.

@@ECsponger2 a non-tropical low, in the location it was, IS a Nor'Easter... All a Nor'Easter is, is a low pressure system setup in a position where it drives NE wind and swell along the entire coast, like this system did. And you can't argue it wasn't a Tropical Storm.... It literally became Tropical Storm Melissa. You're arguing with the NHC at that point.

@@brettbarley oh I can argue with them, that's their call. Wasn't anything tropicap about it. Also, most if not all nor'easters come about by combining with another or left-over systems. This thing literally FORMED off of the coast, didn't even travel north-east (barely) and dissipated before anyone knew what was happening. Non-tropical low, I'm sticking with it.

ocripcurrent i go no complaints about not calling it tropical... if it was a few weeks later it wouldn’t have been named. But not calling it a Nor’Easter doesn’t make any sense...