Catherine Rusoff
Another house collapsed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina, the sixth to fall along Cape Hatteras National Seashore beaches in the past four years, according to U.S. National Park Service officials.
About a mile of beach along Ocean Drive in Rodanthe, Outer Banks, was closed after Tuesday’s collapse. National Seashore asked visitors to avoid beaches north of Sea Haven Drive in the southern part of Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge as dangerous debris could be on the beach and in the water as the cleanup continues.
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National Seashore workers hauled dozens of pickup trucks full of debris to a nearby parking lot on Tuesday and Wednesday. The public was asked to help employees and a contractor hired by the owner of the home, which was unoccupied at the time of the crash.
Two years ago, a video of a beach house sinking into the Atlantic in Rodanthe on the Outer Banks has gone viral on social media. The same year, a NASA report warned that sea levels across the US could rise by up to 30 centimeters by 2050, with the Southeast and Gulf coasts seeing the biggest changes. The report said 13 million Americans could be displaced by the year 2100.
A study published in Nature Communications Last year, it was found that since 2010, sea level rise along the country’s Southeast and Gulf coasts has reached rates “unprecedented in at least 120 years.”
“These fast rates are unprecedented throughout the 20th century at least, and were three times higher than the global average for the same period,” said Tulane professor Sönke Dangendorf, who led the study.
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North Carolina’s coast is almost entirely made up of narrow, low-lying barrier islands that are increasingly vulnerable to storms and being washed away by the bay and sea as the planet warms. As sea levels rise, these islands typically move toward the mainland, frustrating efforts to keep properties in place.
Some beaches in the state have been losing about 14 feet a year, according to the National Park Service.
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In 1999, the historic Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, located on one of the state’s barrier islands, was moved nearly 3,000 feet inlanda warning about the dramatic climate changes to come.
Tuesday’s house collapse occurred days later Severe weather hit North Carolina and 6 other statesleaving a trail of death and destruction.
—Ben Tracy and Li Cohen contributed reporting.
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