Sea Level Rise Moving Fast On North Carolina Outer Banks

[hatrack]

Relative sea level trend at Oregon Inlet Marina, North Carolina, 1920-2019. The relative sea level trend is 4.69 millimeters/year with a 95 percent confidence interval of +/- 1.16 mm/yr based on monthly mean sea level data from 1977 to 2018, which is equivalent to a change of 1.54 feet in 100 years. Graphic: NOAA

Hurricanes aren’t the only hazard lapping at the shores of the Outer Banks, according to a report examining the threat of climate change on some of the country’s most beloved natural landscapes. Thanks to creeping sea levels and erosion rates, Cape Hatteras National Seashore made the list.

“One of the most imminent threats to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore is to the natural habitat it protects,” the Landslide 2019 report states. “As sea level rises, erosion rates increase and the natural habitat between the ocean and the waterfront properties decreases.” The report is a product of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, or TCLF, a nonprofit dedicated to the stewardship of those landscapes, that started in 2003.


A resident walks his dog on a flooded road in Salvo, N.C., in the Outer Banks, as Hurricane Dorian drenches the neighborhood with a torrential downpour on 6 September 2019. The storm made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane. Photo: Jose Luis Magana / AFP / Getty Images

Jonathan B. Jarvis, the former director of the National Park Service, wrote its introduction. “As you read through TCLF’s annual Landslide and lament the loss of irreplaceable cultural and historical sites, get angry and then get busy,” he said. “The planet needs you.”

Cape Hatteras is one of three national parks at the Outer Banks — which is projected to see the highest sea level rise by 2100, according to a National Park Service study cited in the report.


NOAA’s GOES East satellite captured this view of the strong Category 1 storm at 8:20 a.m. EDT, just 15 minutes before the center of Hurricane Dorian moved across the barrier islands of Cape Hatteras. Photo: NOAA

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https://desdemonadespair.net/2019/11/rising-sea-levels-are-swallowing-outer-banks-beaches-new-report-says.html

[underpants]

1. Richmond might have to find a new vacation spot.

Richmond goes to OBX
Roanoke goes to Myrtle Beach
No one (until recently) went to Va Beach other than the I95 corridor and French Canadians.

I do feel sorry for the people who invested in rental property- I know a few people who have done that.

[beachbumbob]

2. Karma is a bitch as so many coastal states are redstates

Sucks to be them when it all hits the fan
I'll send them my thoughts and prayers

[keithbvadu2]

3. It's just a hoax by China according to Dotard.

It's just a hoax by China according to Dotard.