Homes are collapsing in North Carolina. It could spell trouble for other coastal areas, too

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1. When Stacy Morgan and her husband, Brandon Dodick, bought their beach house in Buxton, North Carolina, in May, they imagined one day spending their retirement there.

   Five months later, the house was gone.

   Theirs was one of 27 beachfront homes in Buxton and Rodanthe, two villages on Hatteras Island, part of North Carolina’s barrier islands, that have collapsed into the ocean since 2020. Rising sea levels and relentless storms are erasing land faster than locals – or officials – can respond.

   The collapses are happening on a thin, sparsely populated stretch of coast. But some experts warn that what’s happening in Hatteras could be a glimpse of what’s to come in other coastal areas as climate change fuels more powerful storms and hastens erosion.

   [In North Carolina, the losses are accelerating](https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/homes/why-are-homes-collapsing-in-north-carolina?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit). Sixteen of the 27 homes have collapsed since September, all of them unoccupied at the time. Meanwhile, the safety net designed to financially protect homeowners from flooding sits frozen amid the government shutdown.

   In a statement last week, the Cape Hatteras National Seashore indicated that additional homes could collapse in Buxton in the coming days.

2. So I was 22 years old in 2005. I remember people in the united states blaming victims of hurricane katrina for “living in a city with a low elevation.”

   People were dying and their own countryman were blaming them for simply living there.

   I see the same things with collapsing coastal housing and flooded areas.

   A big part of the continuation of the pollution apocalypse is the lack of empathy from people.

   No one ever thinks: next time it could be me.

3. Dumbasses . Did they ‘believe’ in climate change before? I bet they might be converts.

4. Again, what garbage journalism. 

   This is r/environment. I would expect things to be presented from an environmental impact point of view.

   If they purchased property on a fucking SANDBAR there should be no surprise when it is reclaimed by the ocean. They move naturally regardless of climate change.

   The tragedy is that these structures are allowed to fall into the sea for insurance purposes. They should be demolished before creating more trash in the ocean.

5. Nah that house collapsing into a rising sea can’t possibly be linked to other reasons

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