# How do I respond to people saying houses near the beach will be underwater soon?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 25, 2007, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-respond-to-people-saying-houses-near-the-beach-will-be-underwater-soon/401560 "2007-04-25T06:12:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-respond-to-people-saying-houses-near-the-beach-will-be-underwater-soon/401560/21 "2007-05-11T22:51:47Z")

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[QUOTE=Christopher]  
Even absent global warming, isn’t shoreline erosion enough reason not to build on the shore. It seems to me that shorelines are awfully dynamic.  
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Absolutely. The storm off the southeast U.S. coast for the last three days did this in North Carolina.

[http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070510/NEWS/70510004/1004/news01](http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070510/NEWS/70510004/1004/news01)

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**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-respond-to-people-saying-houses-near-the-beach-will-be-underwater-soon/401560/22 "2007-05-11T22:59:12Z")

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**Christoper** said it before I could. Beach erosion is absolutely no joke. It is a serious threat to the seaside homeowner.

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