North Carolina's Outer Banks Homes Get Put on Wheels to Escape the Atlantic—19 Houses Already Lost

North Carolina's Outer Banks Homes Get Put on Wheels to Escape the Atlantic—19 Houses Already Lost On Hatteras Island, moving house has become a literal act of survival. The narrow strip of land off North Carolina’s coast is losing homes to the Atlantic Ocean at a startling rate. Since September, 19 houses have been torn from their pilings by waves, crashing into other structures before breaking apart. Now, some homeowners are fighting back by lifting entire buildings onto wheels and hauling them inland. They call Barry Crum, a lifelong resident who has become the island’s main house mover. His business is booming as the coastline rapidly erodes. The pace of sea-level rise has turned the Outer Banks into a “canary in the coal mine” for other East Coast communities. What is happening here may soon happen elsewhere [136156]. Homes on wheels flee the sea in North Carolina