A small hamlet on Hatteras Island is being swallowed up by the sea at an alarming rate.
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Barrier islands like Hatteras are ecologically designed to move. They exist to protect the mainland. So, while Hatteras Island has never been, a barrier island’s response to the fiercer storms and rising seas of climate change is to retreat landward more quickly. Sea level rise is real, and Hatteras Island is eroding, retreating faster toward the mainland.
I live on the North Carolina mainland now, but I remain tied to the island and its community. As the houses fall into the sea rapidly, as the island erodes, I’m wondering how I—how we—will grieve the imminent loss. Grief is on my mind, and I’m wondering if we’ll do it together.—it’s a popular catchphrase on the Outer Banks, a line of text you’ll see on little circular bumper stickers and scrawled in cursive across T-shirts., is another. They’re apt slogans.
“Everyone I talked to spoke about pockets of people alarmed, but none of my friends felt an overarching communal concern or grief.” , one friend said. I thought to myself that surely this must extend to climate change, surely this must be something we’re all in together and all mourning.There’s another popular sign on Hatteras Island, one that’s not sold in stores—a piping plover giving the middle finger. It says,There’s a pervasive vibe on the island that boils down to not wanting to be told what to do.
One of my earliest memories is of camping in Salvo, just a few miles down the road from Rodanthe. I was three. In my memory, the sand from the dune to the ocean stretches and rolls almost endlessly. I walk, and walk, and walk over that hot sand, waves of heat shimmering translucently in the air. I walk and walk before finally reaching the cool, crashing ocean.. It’s receded so far, so much faster than before the world began warming at a terrifying rate.Maybe we’re grieving what we never had.
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