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The Ocean is Unforgiving: Part 2

House collapsed in the ocean at Rodanthe, May 2024 (photo from Wikimedia)

21 October 2026: Part 2 of The Ocean is Unforgiving When You Build Your House on Sand

When I was a teenager my family used to vacation on the beach at Nags Head, North Carolina in cottages across the road from Jockey’s Ridge sand dunes. Fifteen years later when my husband and I visited Nags Head, the ocean was closer to the road, the beach was narrow, and the cottages were gone.

I wasn’t there to see what happened to those cottages. Were they demolished and carted away before the ocean took them? Or was it…

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