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what is the Outer Banks home a place
that in some ways is divorced from the
rest of the country but in other ways
perhaps more real because you’re so
intertwined with nature
it’s so unfortunate that bear ions are
beautiful if only they could be ugly and
we’d have no problem but the outer banks
are immensely fragile from the
standpoint of people who have buildings
on them from the standpoint of a natural
system they’re extremely dynamic very
very tough and resilient and they will
migrate up the upper land as the sea
level rises if they were left alone but
of course are not being left alone
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where the people have not done anything
the islands of magnet guidance that have
people on them they’re standing
perfectly still and we’re beating our
head against the wall trying to hold
those shorelines in place
when I was a child there was at least a
thousand feet of beach I was born in
1928 there was 600 feet in 1952 and now
we’re washing away if we don’t get the
help we won’t be here next year
when you have two or three or four
generations of your family buried in
your backyard you don’t just pick up and
sell what the heck I think I’ll move to
the suburbs somewhere
folks that live here are not interested
in urban or suburban living otherwise
that’s where they would be
it’s quite simple you know we’re three
feet above sea level here three foot sea
level rises all over and if it goes up
and as it goes up there you’ll have to
adjust and sooner or later businesses
that are functioning will no longer
function and the life that we know here
on this island will no longer be viable
the most likely sea level right is about
three feet by the year 2100 that’s a lot
of sea level rise the immediate cause of
buildings falling into the sea is
shoreline erosion which is all part of
the island migration process the erosion
rate is impacted by sea level rise which
means the erosion problem will be
greater but I think will do will respond
to a major catastrophe or a series of
major catastrophe we’ll get out of the
way in a rush I don’t think we’re going
to do this sensibly
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my family cemetery down behind the the
home that I grew up in is one in which
my grandfather and my father mother and
uncle Knights are buried and I will be
buried there as well
and when the island washes away you know
I just go with it
I guess I have taken from nature is
fishing and I guess I should just be
really suckers with everything else yeah
it’s pretty much it I’m pretty sure I
don’t deserving a you any more purpose
that no you need other creatures that
live here
[Music]
what is the Outer Banks home a place
that in some ways is divorced from the
rest of the country but in other ways
perhaps more real because you’re so
intertwined with nature
it’s so unfortunate that bear ions are
beautiful if only they could be ugly and
we’d have no problem but the outer banks
are immensely fragile from the
standpoint of people who have buildings
on them from the standpoint of a natural
system they’re extremely dynamic very
very tough and resilient and they will
migrate up the upper land as the sea
level rises if they were left alone but
of course are not being left alone
[Music]
where the people have not done anything
the islands of magnet guidance that have
people on them they’re standing
perfectly still and we’re beating our
head against the wall trying to hold
those shorelines in place
when I was a child there was at least a
thousand feet of beach I was born in
1928 there was 600 feet in 1952 and now
we’re washing away if we don’t get the
help we won’t be here next year
when you have two or three or four
generations of your family buried in
your backyard you don’t just pick up and
sell what the heck I think I’ll move to
the suburbs somewhere
folks that live here are not interested
in urban or suburban living otherwise
that’s where they would be
it’s quite simple you know we’re three
feet above sea level here three foot sea
level rises all over and if it goes up
and as it goes up there you’ll have to
adjust and sooner or later businesses
that are functioning will no longer
function and the life that we know here
on this island will no longer be viable
the most likely sea level right is about
three feet by the year 2100 that’s a lot
of sea level rise the immediate cause of
buildings falling into the sea is
shoreline erosion which is all part of
the island migration process the erosion
rate is impacted by sea level rise which
means the erosion problem will be
greater but I think will do will respond
to a major catastrophe or a series of
major catastrophe we’ll get out of the
way in a rush I don’t think we’re going
to do this sensibly
[Music]
my family cemetery down behind the the
home that I grew up in is one in which
my grandfather and my father mother and
uncle Knights are buried and I will be
buried there as well
and when the island washes away you know
I just go with it
I guess I have taken from nature is
fishing and I guess I should just be
really suckers with everything else yeah
it’s pretty much it I’m pretty sure I
don’t deserving a you any more purpose
that no you need other creatures that
live here
[Music]
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