{"id":5729,"date":"2023-03-14T15:43:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T19:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=5729"},"modified":"2023-03-21T10:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T14:22:21","slug":"another-casualty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=5729","title":{"rendered":"Another Casualty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I heard about a cottage going down along the Rodanthe oceanfront. It was not totally unexpected, especially due to the adverse weather and big surf. By the time I arrived on the scene at East Point Drive, the house had already collapsed with debris strewn along the beach.<\/p>\n<p>When it was built over 45 years ago, the house was 3 lots back from the ocean, behind a vegetated dune. It was a typical modest beach box. For decades it was owned by the same family and passed down a few generations. I don\u2019t know if the same family still owned it, but doubtless there were many great times and memories there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1110058-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5731\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1110058-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1110058-1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1110058-1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1110055-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5730\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1110055-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1110055-1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1110055-1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Along the Rodanthe oceanfront, more than a dozen other cottages are at risk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1110061-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5732\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1110061-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1110061-1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1110061-1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to evaluate which ones will be next. They&#8217;re pins waiting to be knocked down at a bowling alley, or sitting ducks if you will. Nothing will protect them, other than relocation.<\/p>\n<p>The debate dealing with this goes on, but there are clearly problems with the permitting and insurance processes. Then there&#8217;s always the caveat, <em>buyer beware<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I heard about a cottage going down along the Rodanthe oceanfront. It was not totally unexpected, especially due to the adverse weather and big surf. By the time I arrived on the scene at East Point Drive, the house had already collapsed with debris strewn along the beach. When it was built over 45 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,22,36,26,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beach","category-buildings","category-history","category-outer-banks","category-storms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5729"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5739,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions\/5739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}