Why Outer Banks Houses Keep Collapsing

25/11/2025 7 min Temporada 5 Episodio 32
Why Outer Banks Houses Keep Collapsing

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Send us a textWhen a million-dollar beach house in the Outer Banks collapses into the surf, it looks like a sudden disaster. But for the people who study coastal risk, it’s anything but. In this episode, we talk with Travis Klondike of NC State’s Coastal Dynamics Design Lab about why.Links:Coastal Dynamics Design Lab (CDDL) at North Carolina State Universityhttps://design.ncsu.edu/research/coastal-dynamics-design-lab/Five homes lost in a day highlight the growing cost of inaction on NC erosionhttps://www.wral.com/weather/5-homes-lost-nc-outer-banks-erosion-october-2025/20481590/An Photo taken May 10, 2022, showing portion of a collapsed house and debris in the ocean and on the beach at 24265 Ocean Drive, Rodanthe. (NPS Photo)Support the showwww.shoresides.org