Shocking pictures 明らかにする／漏らす how some of the most picturesque beaches in the US are 存在 廃虚d by 腐食

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Some of the most picturesque beaches in the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs are slowly disappearing.

The Outer Banks are a 200-mile 障壁 island chain on the North Carolina coast and are a major tourist 目的地, with tourists flocking there to enjoy fresh seafood and beautiful beaches.

However, major 部分s of the island-chain, which starts in southern Virginia and stretches nearly the entire North Carolina coastline, are 崩壊（する）ing.

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The Outer Banks are a 200-mile 障壁 island chain on the North Carolina coast and are a major tourist d estination, with tourists flocking there to enjoy fresh seafood and beautiful beaches. But the beaches are 存在 厳しく eroded?

In Rodanthe, North Carolina, waves threateningly （競技場の）トラック一周 around the stilts of this home

In this 空中の 見解（をとる）, the ocean is shown encroaching on homes that were built along the beach?

The 損失 to the beaches, and beach-味方する 所有物／資産／財産s, is putting a way of life and 観光旅行，事業-based economy at 危険

Stanley Riggs, a 沿岸の geologist at East Carolina University in Greenville, told 国家の Geographic that the 損失 is the result of 熱帯の 嵐／襲撃するs, beach-前線 開発 and sea-level rise.

The magazine 報告（する）／憶測d that in 確かな areas, the beaches have receded about 2,500 feet in just 150 years ? and geologists such as Riggs 警告する that the beautiful beaches there could one day be swallowed by the 大西洋 Ocean.

He said: ‘Sea-level rise and 嵐／襲撃するs are taking out eastern North Carolina today - not a hundred years from now. They're doing it today.’

Stanley Riggs, a 沿岸の geologist at East Carolina University in Greenville, said the 損失 is the result of 熱帯の 嵐／襲撃するs, beach-前線 開発 and sea-level rise

Outer Banks 居住（者）s first noticed that their beaches were disappearing 支援する in the 1930s?

The 非難する for the beaches 存在 degraded can partly be laid at the door of engineers ? and their reaction to rising sea levels and 嵐／襲撃するs.

Outer Banks 居住（者）s first noticed that their beaches were disappearing 支援する in the 1930s, so in the 1940s engineers began building dunes along the coast to keep water 殺到するs at bay.

Once 主要道路 12 was built in 1962 - the only road that travels the entire length of the Outer Banks - they had even more 推論する／理由 to continue piling the sand up because of the 経済的な 利益s the road fuelled.

During a 嵐／襲撃する, water いつかs 完全に reshapes beaches, or 原因（となる）s parts of it to disappear 完全に

The 橋（渡しをする） shown in this picture connects Nags 長，率いる on the Outer Banks to the 本土／大陸 of North Carolina, and is in major danger 予定 to 損失 原因（となる）d by 嵐／襲撃するs?

While the engineers' 意向s have been noble ? and for a while they certainly kept the economy buoyant - there’s an argument that they just made the 状況／情勢 worse.

Here’s how.

The Outer Banks should in theory be 徐々に moving に向かって the 本土／大陸, 儀礼 of 嵐／襲撃する-level sea water cutting channels through it and depositing sand on the other 味方する - where there's an inlet called a sound - and 勝利，勝つd blowing sand 西方のs, too.

This photo shows the beaches at a time when they were much wider

Older homes experience the most 損失 after a major 嵐／襲撃する comes through

This 劇の image shows a cottage called Wave Breaker on the Outer Banks 存在 押し寄せる／沼地d by a 嵐の high tide?

The coastline on many of the beaches is believed to have receded about 2,500 feet in the last 150 years as a result of 多重の 嵐／襲撃するs, 開発, and sea-level rise?

This image was taken in 1965 and shows how Outer Banks home owners enjoyed 広大な expanses of sand at that time?

So the islands should be staying the same size, but moving landwards.

But this natural 移住 has been stopped by engineers 封鎖するing the newly carved water channels and pil ing up sand, によれば Riggs.

As a result, the islands are thinning because the sand is 存在 degraded on the ocean 味方する but isn't 存在 許すd to build up 自然に on the sound 味方する.

What's more, the water levels in the inlet are 存在 kept artificially high, because the 超過 can't drain 支援する into the ocean.?

Then there are the 嵐／襲撃するs.

Nearly every time that a ハリケーン or major 熱帯の 嵐／襲撃する 攻撃する，衝突するs 主要道路 12, it を受けるs serious 損失.

This image shows the 破滅的な 損失 原因（となる）d to 主要道路 12 by ハリケーン Irene?

主要道路 12 is the only road that runs the entire length of the Outer Banks

A woman takes ビデオ （映画の）フィート数 of the 損失d 原因（となる）d by 殺到するing waves to 主要道路 12 in Kitty 強硬派

Beach refurbishment 事業／計画（する）s (pictured) 目的（とする） to 取って代わる sand on beaches to 持続する a 安定した stream of 観光旅行，事業

Towns on the Outer Banks have to spend large sums of money to refurbish sand on the beaches

A child carries his family's 塀で囲む mirror from their beachfront home in Nags 長，率いる, having been 軍隊d to 避難させる it 予定 to a brewing 嵐／襲撃する

This makes it difficult for 居住（者）s and tourists alike to travel along the island, and makes 地位，任命する-嵐／襲撃する clean-up nearly impossible.

The 損失 原因（となる）d is putting a way of life and 観光旅行，事業-based economy at 危険, not to について言及する some of the most breathtaking 見解（をとる）s on the eastern shore-board.

Garry Parry, the 市長 of popular Outer Banks 目的地 Kitty 強硬派, told MailOnline Travel: ‘The beach road has been 損失d and rebuilt 非常に／多数の times throughout the length of Kitty 強硬派.

'The beach has eroded to the point one stretch 要求するd sandbagging in an 成果／努力 to save it.

ハリケーン Irene left these houses surrounded by high tides

These photos show the change over time of Outer Banks beaches at Hatteras Village (left) and Ocracoke Island (権利)?

The Outer Banks - now a string of islands popular with beachgoers - first formed around 7,000 years ago?

WHY ARE AMERICA'S MOST PICTURESQUE BEACHES DISAPPEARING??

The Outer Banks - now a string of islands popular with beachgoers - first formed around 7,000 years ago, and settled 概略で into their 現在の 場所 2,000-3,000 years ago, as 報告（する）／憶測d by 国家の Geographic.?

Scientists argue that since 1900, the sea has begun to rise at an 加速するd pace, mostly 予定 to 気候 change.?

The Outer Banks should in theory be 徐々に moving に向かって the 本土／大陸, 儀礼 of 嵐／襲撃する-level sea water cutting channels through it and depositing sand on the other 味方する - where there's an inlet called a sound - and 勝利，勝つd blowing sand 西方のs, too.?

So the islands should be staying the same size, but moving landwards.

But this natural 移住 has been stopped by engineers 封鎖するing the newly carved water channels and piling up sand, によれば Riggs.

As a result, the islands are thinning because the sand is 存在 degraded on the ocean 味方する but isn't 存在 許すd to build up 自然に on the sound 味方する.

What's more, the water levels in the inlet are 存在 kept artificially high, because the 超過 can't drain 支援する into the ocean.?

The islands are thinning because the sand is 存在 degraded on the ocean 味方する but isn't 存在 許すd to build up 自然に on the sound 味方する?

This 地図／計画する shows the 概算の sea level rise at different 部分s of the North Carolina Coast over the past 150 years.?Scientists argue that since 1900, the sea has begun to rise at an 加速するd pace, mostly 予定 to 気候 change

宣伝

‘Large 嵐／襲撃するs, ハリケーンs or nor'easter 勝利，勝つd (大型の-規模 サイクロンs) 衝撃 our ocean 味方する through "over-wash flooding", large movement of beach sand 西方の の上に roadways and under built-up houses.

‘The loss of wide and high beach has been 厳しい enough that even 穏健な 嵐／襲撃する waves or 殺到するs 原因（となる）s flooding 損失.

‘With no 代案／選択肢 left, Kitty 強硬派 along with three other municipalities have 乗る，着手するd on a beach nourishment 事業／計画（する） this coming spring/summer to pump 両立できる sand from 沖合いの／海外の to 広げる our beaches.

‘In 新規加入, Kitty 強硬派 has 任命する／導入するd pumping 駅／配置するs to 除去する flood water that occurs in the low area between beach and high dune that separates the beach zone from the west 味方する "village zone”.'?

When ハリケーンs and other major 熱帯の 嵐／襲撃するs 攻撃する，衝突する the islands, it 原因（となる）s major 損失 to the beaches and beach-味方する 組織／基盤／下部構造, 含むing piers