The ownership of a condemned Outer Banks beach house had plans to remove the home before ... vacation home appeared to be ...

All of its 20 apartments spanning 21 levels —including a double-level penthouse with a private roof terrace —would ...

Homes have been falling into the ocean on North Carolina's Outer Banks at an accelerated rate and there's no money to dismantle them before they drift off ...

D’Leo rents a second-floor apartment in a three-story house across the street from ... Here, rows of pilings along a Dutch beach trap sand and help build up the coast. Much of the land behind ...

For Landon Wright, owner and president of Prestige Custom Builders, the Gulf Coast community of Crystal Beach, Texas has been ...

Water lines snapped, the pilings broke, and the house became uninhabitable ... He’s concerned that nobody has a Plan B or knows the ecological impact of trying to build “one giant beach from southern ...

Homes, ranging from fortified mansions raised on pilings well above the ... There is a federal plan to add sand to the beaches of Reeds Beach and Pierces Point, another small community on the ...

As Rawlins writes, they were mostly ‘mean, prefabricated wooden cottages with tiny windows, delivered on barges and dragged across the fragile dunes to rest upon scrums of skinny wooden pilings ...

The action of the winds piling up water (typically more than 85 ... the 25 ft [7.65 m] long survey rod for scale). Right: Massive beach and over wash erosion illustrated by damaged and snapped ...

Injuries, however, recently started piling ... plans to fulfill an important family obligation. “I’m going to check on my ...