Effects of Rising Sea Level on Coastal North Carolina - "Sea Change" - A WRAL Documentary

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• TA

  @tadblackington1676 · 3 years ago

  30 years ago we did know this but we have willfully ignored this knowledge over the intervening decades.

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• UN

  @unnaturalselection8330 · 4 years ago

  As a native Outerbanker, none of the photos they&apos;ve shown here are at all indicative of anything more problematic than my grandfather&apos;s time.<br>We&apos;re talking about a string of SANDBARS.<br>By nature, these were mobile and we are interfering with nature in the process of making ourselves at home.<br>...For instance, older heads remember when there were more inlets.<br>Well, inlets aren&apos;t allowed to open and close like they did in our islands for millennia ...because houses and infrastructure would go into the sea.<br>That, by the way, has a perhaps unintended consequence: once water is pushed into the sound by a Noreaster or hurricane, it&apos;s far harder for the water to drain back into the ocean quickly, thus salt poisoning low lying land more easily that it might with better drainage.<br>Also, we don&apos;t do near enough dune replenishment.<br>Certain areas are KNOWN to flood during storms and yet the same area will be breached over and over with no tangible attempts to better the situation.<br>ALSO, there&apos;s extremely bad drainage in just about every township that gets worse as construction continues; you can&apos;t pave over all the sand and give the water no system to run off to after denying it the ability to seep into the sand.<br>It pools.<br>....Kitty Hawk and KDH are especially egregious on the &quot;zero drainage&quot; tip.<br>ALSO, we&apos;ve had phosphate companies quietly pumping out &nbsp;massive amounts of water from our aquifers in the Great Dismal Swamp to process their products for decades, which makes land SUBSIDE.<br>As to oceanfront houses, given the impermanent nature of our home, I consider oceanfront houses going into the sea to be part of the normal ebb and flow of the sandbar we&apos;ve built our lives on.<br>There&apos;s a reason our grandparents generation never built anything hard up on the ocean side.<br>Therefore, an oceanfront house is a rich man&apos;s luxury that he must by prepared to lose with any major storm.<br><br>Point being, why not address the local problems we CAN solve instead of talking about Antarctica, when our local communities simply don&apos;t have the power to affect change on that level?!?<br>My long winded 2 cents, not that anyone will ever read this, lmao.

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• RI

  @rickyphillips2552 · 4 years ago (edited)

  I lived in Key West in the early 80&apos;s which is one foot above sea level. &nbsp;A recent visit showed the sea level is exactly the same! &nbsp;The sea must be rising only on the NC coast!/? &nbsp;So, does anyone have a explanation why the sea is not rising in Key West?

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• CO

  @coreyadkins8775 · 2 years ago

  They are shifting sand bars. &nbsp; Not rising &nbsp;sea levels.

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• HS

  @hsbrooks · 1 year ago

  many millimeters has the sea level risen in 10 years?

• LO

  @lonepilgrim420 · 5 years ago

  houses are the enemy of sea level rise

• TI

  @timbates2052 · 1 year ago

  For those of you who do not think oceans are rising, see for yourself. <br>Topex/Poseidon/Jason1&amp;2

• HE

  @heather3193 · 4 years ago

  The sands are shifting...the ocean is not rising.

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• BU

  @buildit000 · 1 year ago

  Al Gore said we’d be underwater now. He was wrong. This video is HOG WASH!