October 29, 2025Oct 29 Our commander-in-chief on the hurricane:"I've never seen, I guess, it can get that high, but I've never seen it," Trump added. "And it's literally just, you know, knocking down everything in front of it. It's, it's a stage five, I guess. And you don't see stage five, you don't see five, you see fours and threes. But this is a five early on, meaning it gets worse."
October 29, 2025Oct 29 Author https://www.facebook.com/share/r/14RPVMnMgV3/?mibextid=wwXIfrLooks like a tornado came through. Unbelievable damage.
November 3, 2025Nov 3 Buxton, NC on the Outer Banks is disappearing into the ocean due to coastal erosion.Workers Race To Save A House On The Outer Banks | Weather...A work crew in Buxton, North Carolina, raced against the surf to reinforce a beach house. In the past month alone, fifteen houses have been destroyed by storms and coastal erosion on North Carolina’s
November 3, 2025Nov 3 1 hour ago, toolg said:Buxton, NC on the Outer Banks is disappearing into the ocean due to coastal erosion.Workers Race To Save A House On The Outer Banks | Weather...A work crew in Buxton, North Carolina, raced against the surf to reinforce a beach house. In the past month alone, fifteen houses have been destroyed by storms and coastal erosion on North Carolina’sI would not call this a climate change disaster at all. Barrier islands are supposed to move around. Any place with unconsolidated sand deposits, like barrier islands, or Cape Cod, or peninsulas like Cape Henlopen or Cape May, will ALWAYS see changes in deposits, with sand being taken away from a spot as much as it is placed in a spot.The idea that we think barrier islands and other sand deposits should stay still and not change for years and decades is ridiculous and is not natural.
November 3, 2025Nov 3 1 hour ago, xzmattzx said:I would not call this a climate change disaster at all. Barrier islands are supposed to move around. Any place with unconsolidated sand deposits, like barrier islands, or Cape Cod, or peninsulas like Cape Henlopen or Cape May, will ALWAYS see changes in deposits, with sand being taken away from a spot as much as it is placed in a spot.The idea that we think barrier islands and other sand deposits should stay still and not change for years and decades is ridiculous and is not natural.Valid point. You are correct. If people had never come along, the barrier islands would be naturally drifting in and out of the sea as the storms and ocean would dictate. But the sea walls and jettys in OBX were built. People moved in, built homes and placed their livelihoods there. Now their communities are being swallowed up by the sea. That is a disaster. There is argument amongst the community that more could have been done to fix the jettys so this didn't have to happen. They feel it is through inaction that the waters rise to the point that houses are being destroyed. I feel climate change is a factor here too. Seas are rising more than they had planned. There are a lot of factors here: people, planning, government, infrastructure, environmental, storms/weather, sea rise,... As we consider what we contribute to climate change, we ought to be thinking about what it is happening to communities like Buxton, NC.
November 4, 2025Nov 4 4 hours ago, toolg said:Valid point. You are correct. If people had never come along, the barrier islands would be naturally drifting in and out of the sea as the storms and ocean would dictate. But the sea walls and jettys in OBX were built. People moved in, built homes and placed their livelihoods there. Now their communities are being swallowed up by the sea. That is a disaster. There is argument amongst the community that more could have been done to fix the jettys so this didn't have to happen. They feel it is through inaction that the waters rise to the point that houses are being destroyed. I feel climate change is a factor here too. Seas are rising more than they had planned. There are a lot of factors here: people, planning, government, infrastructure, environmental, storms/weather, sea rise,... As we consider what we contribute to climate change, we ought to be thinking about what it is happening to communities like Buxton, NC.If you build enough jetties and walls, you will not have a beach. People want to live at an actual beach, which means that you will have sand, and that sand will always move around. It can't be both ways.Buxton sits out in the ocean, away from the mainland, basically as far as it possibly can down there. Because it sticks out so much, it is much more prone to hurricanes and every other storm going up the coast than, say Corolla at the northern end of the state. It's position sticking out into just about as many hurricane paths as possible has nothing to do with climate change and basically everything to do with being an inherently vulnerable position.
November 4, 2025Nov 4 10 hours ago, xzmattzx said:If you build enough jetties and walls, you will not have a beach. People want to live at an actual beach, which means that you will have sand, and that sand will always move around. It can't be both ways.Buxton sits out in the ocean, away from the mainland, basically as far as it possibly can down there. Because it sticks out so much, it is much more prone to hurricanes and every other storm going up the coast than, say Corolla at the northern end of the state. It's position sticking out into just about as many hurricane paths as possible has nothing to do with climate change and basically everything to do with being an inherently vulnerable position.Buxton is a different community than Corolla, is different than Nags Head and Kill Devil Hills... People built down in Buxton, and in Rodanthe, Salvo, Waves because it is far flung. It is small and there isn't a large beach. They wanted a place on the ocean that was far from the crowded beaches. This year there was not a large hurricane up the coast that is taking the communities out. It beach erosion due to common coastal storms that they have dealt with many times before in years past. So why are these common storms so much worse on these communities now? They have the same scheduled beach renewal. Why isn't it working now like it used to? I feel that sea level rise and climate change here are part of the issue. The infrastructure they built, the jetties and beach renewal, isn't working now like it used to because the environment has changed.
November 4, 2025Nov 4 6 hours ago, toolg said:Buxton is a different community than Corolla, is different than Nags Head and Kill Devil Hills... People built down in Buxton, and in Rodanthe, Salvo, Waves because it is far flung. It is small and there isn't a large beach. They wanted a place on the ocean that was far from the crowded beaches. This year there was not a large hurricane up the coast that is taking the communities out. It beach erosion due to common coastal storms that they have dealt with many times before in years past. So why are these common storms so much worse on these communities now? They have the same scheduled beach renewal. Why isn't it working now like it used to? I feel that sea level rise and climate change here are part of the issue. The infrastructure they built, the jetties and beach renewal, isn't working now like it used to because the environment has changed.Ask any fisherman, and they will tell you that a hurricane that doesn't make landfall can be just as bad or worse as one that does. That is because a storm out at sea will churn up the water. What is a common storm to you, and doesn't get much coverage on TV, can be a big problem for someone out in the ocean. Buxton sticks out the farthest, and I would imagine is most susceptible to storms that come up the coast and then steer outward. Buxton is the very area that protects places farther north, like Virginia Beach, Ocean City MD, Delaware, and the Jersey Shore. Those places don't get many storms that make landfall because many storms will steer eastward from those capes in North Carolina. (Go farther north, though, and places like Long Island, Rhode Island, and Nantucket take direct hits more frequently than the Jersey Shore and other places slightly westward/sheltered from the Outer Banks, when other storms take a different trajectory.)
November 4, 2025Nov 4 Much of the east coast got hammered this summer. I can remember back in the 90's taking the ferry from Hatteras to Ocracoke was like a 25 minute ride-brother still goes every year and it's over an hour now. He got evacuated for one of the non-land falling hurricanes a few months back. That same storm (Erin) pushed water all the way up to the north Chesapeake. I am on the Elk river and there was water up on the beach. Kinda amazing mother nature is.
December 10, 2025Dec 10 Author Just now, Mike030270 said:What a complete crock of ish. The science is settled. Human influence is absolutely the largest contributor to the warming climate. Releasing carbon into the atmosphere that has been locked up in the earths crust for millions or years before man even existed is pushing global warming to unheard of territories. It is an undisputed fact. PERIOD.
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