More Outer Banks homes fall into the sea as Humberto, Imelda churn offshore | After five homes collapsed Tuesday, officials warned more collapses are possible in the coming days.

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Past articles about homes washing away in this area have discussed rising sea levels as part of the cause. It surely is here again, but the nearby hurricanes created both large waves and locally higher sea levels which accelerated the process.

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Treczoks@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 310d (2 replies)

Well, the US government surely will find a way to explain these events completely away while avoiding evil words like "global warming".

TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 310d (1 reply)

The radical woke left with their trans weather control machines caused it

Upsidedownturtle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 309d

Hily shit, when did the transfolk take control of the Jewish space lasers?

Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 310d (1 reply)

Let them sink and stop letting ppl move to sandbarges off the coast of one of the most hurricane prone places on earth

silence7@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 310d

Managed retreat sounds bad, so we get unmanaged retreat instead

PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 310d

And they force the local government to allow them to rebuild. Only to be destroyed by nature again. As the cycle continues.