If you lived in Raleigh in November of 1988, you remember the tornado.

Remembering Raleigh: Nov. 28 marks anniversary of historic, deadly 1988 tornado 

33 years since deadly F-4 tornado struck Raleigh in 1988

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Dare County leaders said communities are at risk from coastal erosion, but state law is holding them back from finding potential solutions.

THANKS FOR BEING WITH US YEAR. WRAL, NEWS AT 5.30. >> LEADERS IN THE OUTER BANKS SAY THEY CAN NO LONGER AFFORD TO BUILD BACK BEACHES THAT HAS BEEN SWALLOWED BY THE OCEAN, SENDING MULTIPLE HOUSES COLLAPSING IN RECENT MONTHS. ADAIR COUNTY SAYS MULTIPLE COMMUNITIES ARE NOW AT RISK BUT STATE LAWS HOLDING THEM BACK FROM FINDING POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS. WRAL'S KEENAN, WILLARD WALKS US THROUGH THE DIFFICULT MONTHS AHEAD FOR THE OUTER BANKS. THIS IS JUST ONE OF THE HOUSES HERE IN RODANTHE THAT'S ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSING INTO THE OCEAN AND SOME OF THE ROADS HERE IN THE OUTER BANKS ARE BEING THREATENED TO PUT THEIR COUNTY SAYS THERE'S REALLY NOTHING THEY CAN DO TO STOP IT. >> WITHOUT A LIFELINE FROM THE STATE OR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. LOCAL LEADERS SAY THEY CAN USE THE ONLY TOOL TO PROTECT THESE COMMUNITIES. RODANTHE CAUGHT THE WORLD'S ATTENTION LAST MAY WHEN 2 OCEANFRONT HOMES ON THE SAME STREET COLLAPSED WITHIN A MATTER OF HOURS. VIDEO OF ONE OF THE CRASHES WENT VIRAL, BUT A YEAR LATER, NOT MUCH HAS IMPROVED. OUR HANDS ARE TIED. IT'S IT'S BECAUSE OF THE MONEY. >> WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF OPTIONS. WE HAVE. WE HAVE AN OPTION AT THIS POINT AND HIS BEACH NOURISHMENT DARE COUNTY LEADERS SAY BY STATE LAW THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN BUILD UP OCEANFRONT BEACHES THROUGH BEACH NOURISHMENT, A PROCESS OF TAKING SAND FROM ELSEWHERE AND DEPOSITING IT ON THE ROAD AND SHORELINE. NEARLY 100 MILLION DOLLARS WAS SPENT ON THESE PROJECTS AND OUTER BANKS. BEACHES IN 2021. WITH DARE COUNTY SPENDING 30 MILLION OF THAT. BUT THIS WEEK THEY HELD A MEETING TO EXPLAIN WHY IT'S NOT HAPPENING IN RODANTHE. THE COUNTY DOESN'T HAVE FUNDS TO PAY FOR BEACH NOURISHMENT PROJECT. WE DON'T HAVE 30 MILLION DOLLARS TO DO THAT. >> WITHOUT AN INFLUX OF NEW MONEY, WE WE ARE GOING TO BE IN A POSITION TO NOURISH. >> IN RAW DAY AT THE THEY ALSO SAY STATE LAW BANS THEM FROM EVEN STUDYING ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO BUILD UP THE BEACHES. COUNTY LEADERS SAY UNLESS THE STATE OR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GIVE THEM FUNDING, THEY CAN'T STOP US OR OCEAN. WHEN DO WE BEGIN TO DISCUSSION ABOUT OTHER TOOLS? BECAUSE ONE DAY. >> WE'RE GOING TO USE UP ALL THE SAYING THAT'S CLOSE ENOUGH THAT WE CAN PUT IT ON THE BEACH ONE DAY. IT'S GOING TO BE TOO EXPENSIVE. NOT ONLY NEW PROJECTS, BUT DO THE PROJECTS THAT WE'VE GOT TO DO. AND WHAT WE DO. >> THAT IT'S NOT JUST A CRISIS OF VACATION HOMES, OUTER BANKS. RESIDENTS SAY THE SERVICE WASHING OVER ROADS FROM RODANTHE DOWN TO HATTERAS ISLAND, SOMETIMES LEAVING THEM TRAPPED IN THEIR HOMES FOR DAYS AFTER STORMS. WE CAN'T JUST GIVE UP. >> THIS IS GOING TO AFFECT NOT JUST ANTHONY BUT THE ENTIRE HATTERAS ISLAND. SOME RODANTHE HOMEOWNERS ARE TURNING TO DESPERATE MEASURES ON SEIGEL STREET. EVERY ONE OF THESE HOMES IS BEING MOVED BACK. 45 FEET FROM THE OCEAN. THE COUNTY SAYS IT SHOULD BUY THEM A FEW YEARS BUT WON'T STOP HOME COLLAPSES ELSEWHERE. IT'S REACHING A CRISIS POINT HERE. >> AND >> OUR LEGISLATORS ARE PAYING ATTENTION. I AM A BETTING MAN AND I'M GOING TO BET THAT THE FIRST 6 MONTHS ARE NOT GOING TO BE GOOD OF 2023. HERE ON THE OUTER BANKS. KEENAN, WILLARD, WRAL NEWS DARE COUNTY. >> AND DARE COUNTY IS WORKING ON A STUDY TO DETERMINE TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH A BEACH NOURISHMENT PROJECT WOULD COST. 4 RODANTHE. THAT'S EXPECTED TO

Outer Banks homes at risk, funds to build back beaches in Rodanthe run out

'It's reaching a crisis point': Outer Banks leaders say they're out of funding to save threatened beach communities

As rebuilding continues in the path of Hurricane Ian's destruction, tough questions come up about the vulnerability of coastal development.

Rebuild or retreat? Hurricane Ian aftermath raises questions about coastal development

We usually associate flooding with rain and hurricanes, but more and more often, coastal communities are facing what's called "sunny day flooding."

Sunny day flooding: NC coastal communities threatened by rising tides

Miles of dead, gray trees stretch across the east coast and throughout North Carolina's coastal communities due to saltwater creeping inland. Scientists say the speed and size of dying forest wetlands is an alarming product of climate change and rising sea levels.

The scary spread of 'ghost forests' across the east coast

Ghost Forest

When the moon is new or full and closest to Earth, the coast experiences "king tides." 

'King tides' this week may foreshadow norms of the future as sea level rises

Friday marks the last king tide of 2022 along the North Carolina coast.

The last king tide of 2022 is set to end Friday.

PER MEGAWATT HOUR. THAT'S THE MAXIMUM ALLOWED BY THE STATE. >> IT IS NEARING LOW TIDE AT THE COAST RIGHT NOW WITH THE TIDES THIS WEEK HAVE BEEN BOTH THE LOWEST AND THE HIGHEST OF THE YEAR. WRAL'S LIZ MCLOUGHLIN HAS MORE ABOUT THE KING TIDE PHENOMENON AND HOW THE WARMING OCEAN PLAYS A PART. >> KING TIDES HAVE RULED ISI'S THIS WEEK ALONG THE CAROLINA COAST ALSO CALLED PERIGEE IN SPRING TIDES. KING TIDES HAPPENED WHEN A NEW OR FULL MOON IS CLOSEST TO THE EARTH CREATING THE MOST EXTREME TIDES OF THE YEAR CAUSING FLOODING IN SOME AREAS AND STRONGER CURRENTS THAT COULD ENDANGER SWIMMERS. >> SO IT'S GOING TO DROP OFF. ASKED GOING TO BE REALLY DEEP SIGH WOULD BE VERY CAUTIOUS ABOUT THAT. THIS ELEVATED TIDAL CYCLE IS NATURALLY OCCURRING. BUT WITH RISING SEA LEVELS, IT COULD ALSO OFFER A PREVIEW OF NORMAL TIDES IN THE FUTURE. WE MIGHT DISMISS THEM AS ONLY A FEW TIMES A YEAR, BUT INCREASINGLY THAT'S GOING TO BE WEEKLY TO DAILY DISRUPTIONS TO OUR DAILY LIVES GROWING CONCERN OVER COASTAL DRAINAGE SYSTEMS FILLING WITH SEA WATER, MAKING THE IMPACT OF ADVERSE WEATHER EVENTS EVEN MORE BRUTAL WHEN WE SEE RAIN CAUSING FLOODING, IT MIGHT ACTUALLY ALSO BE CAUSED PARTLY BY SEA LEVELS BEING HIGHER THAN NORMAL. >> MANY COASTAL COMMUNITIES, INCLUDING THE OUTER BANKS, ARE ALREADY SEEING THE IMPACT OF SEA LEVEL RISE, WHICH IS ACCELERATING ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION. >> FOOT OF SEA LEVEL RISE IN THE NEXT 30 YEARS. THE SAME AMOUNT SCIENTISTS HAVE SEEN OVER THE PAST CENTURY. >> WE EXPECT THAT IT'S GOING TO GET WORSE UNLESS WE ACT A PUSH FOR CUTTING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS. >> TO SLOW THE FLOW OF RISING WATERS. LIZ MCLAUGHLIN, WRAL NEWS.

Explaining the impact of king tides along the Carolina coast

A new report projects the U.S. sea level will rise as much in the next 30 years, as it did in the past 100 years.



WE WILL SEE ANOTHER 10-12 INCHES OF SEA LEVEL RISE BY 2050. SCIENTISTS SAY THIS WILL LEAD TO A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN COASTAL FLOODING EVEN ON SUNNY DAYS. SEA LEVEL RISING ALSO AMPLIFY HURRICANE STORM SURGE, COASTAL EROSION AND LOSS. KAT CAMPBELL IS IN THE WRAL A SEVERE WEATHER CENTER WITH OUR RISING SEAS COULD EFFECT THINGS IN NORTH CAROLINA. JUST A FEW DAYS AGO WE SAW THE HOUSE IN THE AREA SUCH AS STRANGE THING, COLLAPSING INTO THE SURF AT CAPE HATTERAS. COULD THIS BE A SIDE EFFECT? >> IT FORTUNATELY WE WILL SEE MANY MORE SITES LIKE THAT IN THE FUTURE. BUT WE SEE, OFTEN AT SEA LEVELS, THE BIG TAKE AWAY FROM THE STUDY IS THE ALARMING RATE SEA LEVEL RISE IS ACCELERATING. WHEN YOU LOOK AT SEA LEVEL RISING BY CENTURY YOU CAN REALLY SEE SEA LEVEL RISE UP UNTIL THE 20th CENTURY WE SEE A SIX INCH RISE IN SEA LEVELS AND WE SEE ANOTHER TWO FEET IN SEA LEVEL RISES IS THE IMPACT IT WOULD HAVE ON NORTH CAROLINA, LARGE IMPACTS PUTTING OVER 30,000 PEOPLE AT RISK WITH THE HIGHEST RISK BEING IN NORTH CAROLINA. OVER 22,000 HOMES AT RISK WITH A RISE IN SEA LEVEL AT $3.5 TRILLION AND NEARLY 900 MILES OF ROADWAYS WOULD BE PUT AT RISK IN NORTH CAROLINA. REALLY ALARMING TO SEE JUST A SMALL CHANGE IN SEA LEVEL RISE. REALLY COULD HAVE A HUGE IMPACT NOT JUST ON OUR COUNTRY BUT HERE AT HOME IN NORTH CAROLINA,

Rising sea level could have costly impact at North Carolina coast 

The OceanAire condominiums in Ocean City, NJ, are going to new heights to avoid rising sea level.

It is absolutely tough to be out of there. Me and my wife do go every weekend of the year. The good definitely outweighs the negative. So it's something that had to be done. I feel like we really didn't have a choice in this. Yeah. Mm hmm. Yeah, interesting.

$8 million for 8 feet: NJ condo lifted to ease rising flood risk

Condo lifted

The flood risk for oceanfront homes has moved some owners to elevate their foundations and others to move their homes altogether.

santos Siciliano adores living by the water. I grew up on shore. So for me it's a no brainer. But the flood risk to his oceanport, New Jersey home is getting higher. So in order to stay, he needed to lift the house higher. It's just something that unfortunately that we're faced with, you know, whether it's climate change or anything else. The Siciliano is lifted their home because when they decided to renovate, they had to comply with new local flood zone building codes. There's, is now one of several houses on the street that was lifted. It's fairly safe. It's down to an art Ryan. Hess is a foreman for wolf house and building movers. He's lifted all kinds of homes from small ones like this to 7000 square foot mansions. Got a lot of work from hurricane sandy and there will be plenty more. New Jersey tops the list of states with the most homes that based on projected sea level rise will see at least one major flood per year by 2050 More than 70,000 homes, according to climate central. It's followed by Florida, California Louisiana and North Carolina from homes on the Jersey shore to a 2000 ton historic waterfront building in san Francisco as the water rises. So too must the real estate, any of the coastal areas, any of the areas with large rivers. Michael Brabant has been in the house lifting business for nearly two decades. Working residential and commercial projects, He says, lifts start around $10,000 for a small home To over $1 million 10 minutes. It's not something I want to do. Diana Olick CNBCC

As sea level rises, owners of waterfront homes seek boost

Homes lifted to avoid sea level rise

The risk to tiny Avon from climate change is particularly dire -- it is, after all, located on a mere sandbar of an island chain, in a relentlessly rising Atlantic. 

Despite pushback from some residents, Dare commissioners OK tax to fight off rising sea

Photo of flooding in Avon on Sept. 20

NASA plans the launch of Sentinel-6 and Earth-observing satellite which will monitor sea level changes and provide atmospheric data which will help improve weather forecasting as well as climate modeling.

AMBASSADOR TONY WRIGHT. >>> WELCOME BACK. AN EXCITING NEW SATELLITE LAUNCHES TOMORROW AND THIS WILL HELP TO IMPROVE OUR WEATHER AND CLIMATE FORECAST, JUST STAYING ALL ACROSS THE GLOBE. WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT THIS NEW SATELLITE LAUNCH BECAUSE IT WILL HELP US STUDY SEALEVEL RISE AND THIS IS AN EFFECTIVE CLIMATE CHANGE. MOST OF THE WARMTH GOES TO THE OCEAN WATERS AND WHEN WATER WARMS, IT STARTS TO EXPAND. IT HAS THE OCEANS AS WELL A. THIS IS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST HERE IN NORTH CAROLINA SINCE THIS IS A COASTAL STATE. JOINING ME TO TALK ABOUT THE NEW SATELLITE LAUNCH AND ALL OF THE NEW TOOLS ON BOARD THE SATELLITE IS NASA AMBASSADOR TONY RICE. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. LET'S START WITH THE SEALEVEL RISE. HOW IS THE SATELLITE GOING TO MEASURE SEALEVEL RISE IN THE FUTURE? >> WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO THIS FOR QUITE SOMETIMES. BUT WHAT IS REALLY EXCITING IS HOW MUCH BETTER WE WILL BE ABLE TO DO IT. IT DOES IT BY MEASURING THE ALTITUDE BETWEEN THE SATELLITE DOWN TO THAT SEALEVEL. IT WILL WASH THE CHANGES OVER TIME. THERE IS A LONGEVITY OF DATA AND WERE ABLE TO HAVE THE REALLY HIGH RESOLUTION DATA POINTS OVER A LONG, LONG TIME. IT WILL BE REALLY VALUABLE IN UNDERSTANDING OUR CHANGING CLIMATE. >> ABSOLUTELY. THAT HELPS US PLAN FOR THE FUTURE. BUT WE HAVE ALL OF THE TOOLS WE NEED ACCESS TO. CLIMATE CENTRAL PUTS OUT THESE OBSERVATION MAPS AND SITUATION MAPS WHERE WE CAN SEE JUST EXACTLY WHAT AREAS, DOWN TO WHAT ROADS, WOULD BE AT RISK GIVEN EACH DIFFERENT SCENARIO FOR SEALEVEL RISE. THIS IS THE FIVE VERSION, WE HAVE EIGHT-FOOT VERSIONS AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. I THINK IT WILL HELP US PLAN FOR THE FUTURE WHEN WE HAVE MARK ACCURATE OBSERVATION DATA. BUT WE WILL BE LOOKING AT EXCITING NEW WEATHER FORECASTING TOOLS ON BOARD. I THINK IT IS SO FASCINATING, TONY, HOW WE WILL BE GETTING HIS OBSERVATIONS. TALK MORE ABOUT THAT. >> YEAH, SO EVERY DAY WE HAVE HUNDREDS OF LOCATIONS ACROSS THE GLOBE WHERE WE ARE RELEASING WEATHER BALLOONS TO UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE IN PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE AND THINGS LIKE THAT. WE CAN ONLY DO THAT OVER THE LAND. WHAT THE SATELLITE IS GOING TO GIVE US THE STABILITY TO DO IS DO SOME OF THAT OVER THE OCEAN, PARTICULARLY OVER THE PACIFIC OCEAN, WHERE THE WEATHER WE SEE ON A DAILY BASIS AS FOREIGN. AS WELL AS THE LA NIA AND EL NIO EFFECTS ARE CREATED. THE WAY IT DOES IT IS USING GPS SIGNALS. THE SAME GPS WE ARE RECEIVING IN OUR PHONES AND IN OUR CARS, IT'S WATCHING THE SIGNALS COME THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE. AS THE SATELLITE STARTS TO SET THEM IT WILL MEASURE CHANGES IN THAT TIME TO BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND SOMETHING, EVEN AS DETAILED AS THE TEMPERATURE OF THE AIR AND THE CONSISTENCY OF THE AIR AT THAT POINT. >> VERY INTERESTING. WILL BE ABLE TO GET ALL OF THESE OBSERVATIONS USING GPS TECHNOLOGY. IT WILL ALSO HELP US WITH THE TROPICAL FORECAST, WHICH WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. THE SATELLITE LAUNCHES TOMORROW AROUND NOON. IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN WATCHING, NASA WILL HAVE A STREAM ON THE WEBSITE. TONY HAS BEEN KIND ENOUGH TO

Satellite to monitor sea levels, help with weather forecasting

Parts of the United States saw record levels of high-tide flooding last year as rising seas brought water farther into coastal homes and infrastructure, government scientists reported Tuesday.

New data show an 'extraordinary' rise in U.S. coastal flooding

Report warns sea levels are rapidly rising along America's coasts

Investigation findings were released by William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science.