Outer Banks house falls into the ocean: Climate change blamed

If you are not familiar with the Outer Banks let me fill you in on it for a minute. It is a series of islands that honestly, should never have had something built on it because of the very tiny nature of them and the fact that they are basically piles of ever-shifting sand off the coast of North Carolina. It is a truly beautiful place but if you go there for a little while you quickly realize that if people were to walk away from this for just a few years and not constantly dredge and replace the naturally moving landscape, that every structure on these pieces of land would be destroyed.

There are a number of places on this earth where people honestly should have never tried to turn it into a place with buildings, but the whole "man vs. wild" thing is something that makes places more attractive and of course, expensive.

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This isn't an isolated incident. It happens every year and has happened for as long as I have memories of being alive. I could probably look up records from the past and I would imagine that I would find that this was a normal thing that has been happening on the Outer Banks ever since people made the choice to try to put up dwellings there.

The thing that irritates me about this is that every time that it happens, there are folks out there that use this as an opportunity to preach about climate change (previously known as global warming) and preach to the world about how we need to turn all property into wind and solar farms because that obviously is what is causing this.

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Those of us that live here just groan when we hear the media harp on about climate change every time one of these houses succumbs to the relentless power that is the ocean. It is more of a case of that it was really stupid to build a house on sand that close to the ocean and this always has been the case. It doesn't stop people from doing it though because people want to have unusual property. That's just something that wealthy people do.

I really don't like how any time something that has been happening for as long as I have been alive and for decades (if not longer) prior to my life gets blamed on climate change. Hurricanes happen annually here in North Carolina...they always have and this is why the state and the United States as a whole is shaped the way that it is. Yet now any time a hurricane happens some eco-warrior gets on TV to talk about how man-made climate change is the reason behind it.

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I'm not making it up when I say that this happens every year, there has not been a recent uptick in how often this sort of thing occurs. It is merely a question of whether or not people should have ever tried to build structures on this land to begin with. It's kind of like if you build your house next to an active volcano because the view is nice and then you act all surprised one day when your house gets destroyed by lava. Of course it was going to happen and you can't just point the finger at the political flavor of the year when something that has been going on forever continues to happen.

The stupid way in which people are acting in the past 5 years or so I am honestly kind of surprised that no one has yet come forward to try to blame it on the fact that the house owners weren't wearing masks.

So while people that don't live here might buy into this media-sponsored narrative of climate change being the culprit here, those of us that do live here just shake our heads and move on. Not everything that happens has to be political folks.