At Cape Hatteras Birds, Turtles, And Humans Have Created An Air of Controversy

[Donna]

http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2011/08/cape-hatteras-national-seashore-birds-turtles-and-humans-have-created-air-controversy8562

Regardless of the method ... neither fences nor bulldozed dunes would stop the westward movement of the dunes, although that fact was not yet universally accepted as inevitable. On January 26, 1957, Governor Hodges dramatically asserted that the Outer Banks were slowly receding 'due in part to the action of the winds and ocean currents and to the destruction of the dunes and vegetation by man.' Unless every effort is made, declared Hodges, 'to rehabilitate, stabilize and protect the Outer Banks, huge expenditures will be required in the future to provide protective work for the mainland after the Outer Banks are gone.

[valhalla]

A friend of mine has a lovely house on LBI in Loveladies.  Built in the middle and not on either the Bay or the Atlantic based on the logic that this will be the remaining house (Hurricane Belle broke through at Loveladies in the early 1960's).  It is a good logic, however, if the storms come and take the homes, so be it.  Makes for interesting "discussion", since I believe that rebuilding should be prohibited.

**  For more on the craziness on oceanfront homes, read John Stossel's 1st book - he goes into great detail about how his home was eaten by the Atlantic in a January storm (FEMA = you paid for it, which was part of his point on the craziness).