Comments on: A visual comment

By: Rob Morris

Rob Morris — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:46:20 +0000

Another reminder: Don’t take it personally and don’t make it personal. Thanks.

By: Butch Stone

Butch Stone — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:43:14 +0000

I do not own three oceanfront homes. Where did you get this information from?

By: Butch Stone

Butch Stone — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:40:16 +0000

to Mary
The people who live here.
The raping is what people who live here do by never taking care of the beach. By keeping every penny they have made from the beach and doing nothing to save it.
The beach is your income.

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:44:15 +0000

To Butch: Who exactly is raping the beach? The builders that build homes on the shore, the realtors that sell them or the people that buy them?
The raping is in the debris that is left behind when these homes collapse into the sea.

By: newjake

newjake — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:18:24 +0000

Butch, why not put a lien on your three beachfront properties, and get together with a bunch of other out-of-state-homeowners and local real estate managers…

…and use your personal property as collateral for that 36 million dollar loan?

If all goes the way you say, your property value would go way up, and your huge rentals will help you repay the loan.

By: Butch Stone

Butch Stone — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:14:58 +0000

Mary
I got your point
But, if the oceanfront homes were not there to begin with, the beach would be in worst shape, people doing beach pushes and their homes with its deep footings.
If we don’t do something, then it will take the next row of homes and then the next. Then one day it would get to your home and next, the ocean could some day reach the sound and it has in many places.
So we must stop raping the beach and keep all of the money she makes–and put some of that money back in a nourishment, and do it again whenever it needs it, just like you take care of your car or home. The more beach we have, the more the tourists will come back and spend there money here.

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:56:23 +0000

I guess some of you missed my point. I could have had my dream home on the ocean. Would have loved to wake up to the beautiful Atlantic every day. But again, the thought of having the beautiful Atlantic under my house — well that and the sand bags were enough to convince me to buy my dream house a mile from the beach.
And, no, there is no difference between losing a beach to a storm in Florida or the Outer Banks. It’s Mother Nature. You can’t predict what will happen and I would bet money that if Nags Head did in fact spent millions on refurbishing it would be their dumb luck that the beach would wash away after one nor’easter or hurricane.

By: Butch Stone

Butch Stone — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:13:47 +0000

to newjake

This is a one penny tax, when you spend ten dollars it cost you, ten cents.
spend a hundred dollars,and it cost you one dollar, to save the Beach and the economy.
I always thought that a penny, that the Government made, out of copper, was a waste of time making it, you cant buy anything with a penny, not even gum, but it can Save the Outer Banks.
We now have the know how and equipment to move mountains, we can certainly hold back a ocean, and save the Outer Banks, from becoming a lot of islands.
The Ocean will soon take over OBX
It will reach the sound, if nothing is done.
The oceanfront homes have been holding back the ocean for years, there deep pilings, keep the sand from going in the ocean and the people doing sand pushes, help keep the sand on the beach.
Pump the sand back on the beaches, that we lost from the ocean taking it, back on the beach. Save OBX with a Penny.

By: newjake

newjake — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:29:40 +0000

It’s sad Butch, but you took a chance. You bought oceanfront. Maybe the first mistake you made, and the town is making, is a total lack of respect for the ocean. This isn’t Florida or the Gulf Coast, where the water is as calm as a lake. We are the most exposed point on this seaboard.

By: Butch Stone

Butch Stone — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:08:42 +0000

to Barbra
I own an oceanfront house, MP 3 1/2 in Kitty Hawk. I bought it just before Isabel hit — great timing. My home made it with very little damage. The dune I had ended up on beach road, then the state brought in trucks and equipment from all over and trucked the sand that was in front of my home down to MP 4 where Black Pelican Restaurant is. I was so mad because I wanted it to be put back in front of my home, where it came from.
The road was completely wiped out at MP 4 because there were no homes there to protect the road. About a year later the state or county put in these huge sand bags underground there also — it must have been 15 feet in the ground — also to protect the road.
Yes the homes help protect the beach road. I don’t know, but I would think it is because of the pilings. They must help to hold back the sand, and when oceanfront beach homes do a beach push the homeowner pays for it. But we have no rights to the beach. If you are in front of my home, I cant ask you to leave.
I would love to know just how much it cost to make MP 4 like it is. I am sure that if homes where still there and a beach nourishment had been done, maybe in the long run, would it have cost as much? The county would still be collecting real estate taxes and renters tax on the homes that would be still there. Think of how devastating it must me to lose your dream home!
P.S. The county does not buy any condemn homes, and if they are more that 50% damaged they make the homeowner remove them at their expense. Then all you have left is homeowner’s insurance and hope that it will be enough to finish paying off the mortgage . It’s so sad, don’t you think?