“What we have here is wild, one of the highest-energy coastal systems in the world,” says Stan Riggs, a marine and coastal geologist who’s been working on this barrier-island chain for 50 years. “Buy a cheaper house a few blocks back from the waterline,” he said, mildly tempted himself, “and wait until the waterfront comes to you!”
The dad, a businessman back home, couldn’t help but divine a savvy strategy for investors in the local real estate market. Or maybe, like dozens of houses before it, it was simply sucked into the sea.
The family didn’t know if it had been moved, its owners paying to lift the McMansion whole and transport it to another plot farther inland. There still is, on Google Maps, a sprawling structure enchantingly but, as it turned out, recklessly, ill-fatedly close to the waves lapping the beach. “I swear on the map there was another house here,” the father puzzled. The six-bedroom, 4,500-square-foot vacation rental, for which they were shelling out $8,000 a week, was now oceanfront property. But when they arrived there this past July, they were mystified, if not at all disappointed. When a family from the Midwest looked up satellite images of the house at 23267 Midgetts Mobile Court in Rodanthe, North Carolina, they saw that it was separated from the Atlantic Ocean-sparkling, even in the photograph-by another mansion.
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