Erosion Cape Cod's Constant Change with Greg Berman

[@SpecialSP]

Seeing this has brought tears to my eyes. My heart has ALWAYS lived in E Dennis. My great uncle built a cottage on Sea Street but my parents sold it after dad retired. I wanted to live there but dad sold it anyway. It broke my heart! 💔

[@JohnSmith-se9yl]

Excellent, educational video! Keep up the great work! Thank you for everything you all do!

[@phild8095]

I'm 66. been a fan of The Cape for most of 60 years. This glorious bed of sand and gravel that juts out into the North Atlantic is only temporary. It was deposited by glaciers. So it has been there for thousands of years, but vast parts of it are slowly going away. And people keep building on it. I miss The Cape of my youth.

[@ceciljones2695]

It is happening from Galveston, TX to Cape Cod, MA. It’s happening in the Pacific Ocean. It will continue until we start creating more land based ice than we are losing. It is just that simple.

[@David-i1r6z]

Oddly erosion was a major issue when I was a kid, that was when all the experts warned of the coming, "Ice age".

[@mikeblack6953]

Putting up fences to keep people from walking along a bluff does nothing, a hurricane will come and wipe it out regardless, its nature. That big house should have never been built on that bluff, the town should have never given a permit for it. Especially that size, its one big storm away from disaster. It should be dismantled now while there's time rather than staining the scenery with debris when the house falls over the edge.

[@marylynne9104]

Mike Black, the reason the owners don’t have that house dismantled to stop it falling into the ocean, and becoming a hazard is money $$$. In the US insurers won’t pay out until it literally falls apart, they certainly won’t pay to have it dismantled. Therefore the owners do nothing, and just wait for it to get washed away. The government could intervene to make insurance companies pay up to have these houses demolished, but it’s America…so…freedumb…I guess.

[@brianwillson9567]

So sea levels are rising irrespective if man's activities!

[@bruceb5481]

No. It's the erosion of a temporary sand pile left by a receding glacier. The Cape looks quite different from when the Mayflower arrived.

[@andyharpist2938]

@@bruceb5481 then why are we regaled with sea level, sea level and sea level again?

[@Ye-Olde-Veteran-FR]

@@andyharpist2938 Because it's TRUE, despite your bonkers and wrong "belief system."

[@codzy3532]

why do americans make fing excuses for everything dont build on sand it moves duh

[@fisherman5845]

Everyone that owns houses on the cape cod waterfront own 5 or 6 other houses and millions in the Bank if you want to save cape cod do something about the water pollution

[@airmanma]

It's a sandbar, brought here by the glaciers. Soon to go back into the sea.