Will they? WILL THEY????😔😣😫

Actually we were looking at some houses in Corolla- pretty affordable still.

The collapsed bridge is quite far south of Richmond and Hampton Roads. It's south of Nags Head but before Cape Hatteras.

ETA: There's a new bridge that's bigger, better and prettier and the collapse was the old retired bridge.

Oregon Inlet is an important waterway between The Atlantic Ocean and Pamlico Sound on the inside of the Outer Banks Islands. I hope the debris doesn't clog the inlet.

The new bridge/causeway is beautiful and higher as well as better protected from storms. The views as you drive over it are spectacular!

The state is building another causeway/bridge (see what I did?!) at Rodanthe that will bypass the village. They have a tremendous over-wash problem in that stretch of Route 12 with water and sand often covering the roadway. The new bridge will make that stretch of roadway more protected.

The OBX has a real problem in the future. Ocracoke Island is only 2-6 feet above sea level and flooding is a common occurrence.

The Oregon Inlet ferry was how you got to Pea Island and then drove onward to Hatteras. When I first went to Ocracoke the ferry was privately operated. Ocracoke Town was the dead end of NC-12 and the road was a single lane of military surplus interlocking steel matting, not much to fix when it washed out.

I was in the campground on Ocracoke (where the big parking lot near the ferries is now) when the first ferry left to the south. There was a big celebration. Ocracoke is much different now.

My wife has owned a beach box there for almost 25 years. She built it as an investment and used it as a vacation rental property. Over the years, I calculated that she's earned 7.5 times her original investment and now she's selling for a very tidy sum. Time to leave, you know?

Much of the OBX is a victim of its success. It's so incredibly crowded during the summer season that the islands have lost their charm.

Still, it's incredibly beautiful with some of the best beaches in the world.

It is the final resting place of my parents.