{"id":6289,"date":"2024-10-02T10:11:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T14:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=6289"},"modified":"2024-10-03T09:07:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T13:07:33","slug":"front-row-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=6289","title":{"rendered":"Front Row Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2002 while touring with a group of educators along Hatteras Island, renown coastal geologist Stan Riggs mentioned the annual erosion rate along North Rodanthe at 14 to 16 feet. Living on the edge, I\u2019d seen it happening, especially after a groin was built at Oregon Inlet in 1989. More recently the issue has gotten lots of publicity and we\u2019ve become a poster child for beach erosion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/fric.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6290\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/fric.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/fric.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/fric-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My last blog entry addressed a certain row of houses collapsing into the surf. It\u2019s a predictable yet sad spectacle. When the house called <i>Front Row Seat <\/i>went down on September 24th, I photographed what was left. Formerly known as <i>Fric<\/i>, the mess it left was in retrospect, avoidable. Dare County should have never issued the building permit in the first place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6291\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2012.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2012-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other rental beach houses fall (pun intended) into the same category.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0The pink and aqua-green McMansions on the left were built in 2007 and permits issued after objections to them being constructed. I took this photo in 2012. Now a decade later they&#8217;re closer to the brink.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On this ever-changing barrier island, the ocean isn&#8217;t the culprit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2002 while touring with a group of educators along Hatteras Island, renown coastal geologist Stan Riggs mentioned the annual erosion rate along North Rodanthe at 14 to 16 feet. Living on the edge, I\u2019d seen it happening, especially after a groin was built at Oregon Inlet in 1989. More recently the issue has gotten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,22,26,6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beach","category-buildings","category-outer-banks","category-sea","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6289","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=6289"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6302,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6289\/revisions\/6302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}