'In general, most of the U.S. east and Gulf coasts are affected by coastal erosion.'
The remains of a collapsed house at 24131 Ocean Drive, Rodanthe, North Carolina . Wakefield Professor Christopher Hein said there are "few places I am aware of where the situation is so dramatic, and possibly no place worse." Photo: National Park Service
Christopher Hein, Wakefield associate professor of Marine Science, told Axios Rodanthe is "particularly precariously" placed along a narrow portion of Hatteras Island, "where houses are built close to the beach with small dunes protecting them" from waves and storm surge. "When you protect homes from erosion, you end up destroying the beach, because when sea level is rising ... the beach has to migrate landward," Fletcher told Axios by phone.
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