Hurricane Season

10/02/2025

10/02/2025

10/02/2025

This is still chilling to me. In these nighttime photos from space taken before and after Helene, you can clearly see the path the hurricane took by looking at the large swath of darkness that shows where power was knocked out.

10/01/2025

BREAKING NEWS: A 6th home has collapsed along the Outer Banks in Buxton, North Carolina, due to coastal flooding and erosion caused by hurricanes Humberto and Imelda.

10/01/2025

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Mirlo Beach is a small seaside community in Rodanthe, on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. It was originally developed in the late 1980s and 1990s as a vacation destination, with homes built safely back from the shoreline. Over the years, however, coastal erosion and rising sea levels have completely transformed the area. What was once a wide stretch of sandy beach has now disappeared, and many of the houses stand directly in the surf.

The problem has been made worse by powerful storms and hurricanes such as Hurricane Irene in 2011 and Hurricane Dorian in 2019, which washed away protective dunes and pushed the waterline even closer. Today, houses that once stood hundreds of feet away from the ocean are left perched on fragile wooden pilings, surrounded by waves at high tide.

Living in these homes eventually became impossible. Constant flooding and foundation damage made them unsafe, and many septic systems failed as seawater swallowed the land beneath them. Insurance companies stopped covering properties in such high-risk areas, leaving homeowners with no protection and skyrocketing premiums. The cost of constant repairs, from collapsing decks to rotting floors, made it nearly impossible to maintain the homes.

As a result, many owners abandoned their properties, and some houses have already collapsed into the sea. When this happens, the debris, sewage, and chemicals pollute the beach and ocean, so local authorities and the National Park Service sometimes demolish unsafe homes before they fall.

Mirlo Beach has now become one of the fastest-eroding places on the East Coast, a symbol of how climate change and sea-level rise are reshaping coastlines. Despite the risks, new houses are still being built farther back from the shoreline, but erosion will eventually catch up with them too.

Once seen as a dream vacation spot, Mirlo Beach now looks like a ghost town in parts, with abandoned homes half-submerged in the Atlantic. It serves as a stark reminder of how fragile coastal living is — and a warning of what may happen to many seaside towns around the world in the future.

10/01/2025

Ocean front property transforms into Poseidon property🫣🥲

10/01/2025

Here's a map of all 17 homes that have fallen into the ocean (red) or which have been demolished (purple) at the NC Outer Banks since 2020.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/5-more-homes-collapse-into-the-ocean-on-north-carolinas-outer-banks/1821701