The Navarre Beach Fire Rescue chief said it was a violent storm with lightning bolts popping off all around them as they ...

Homeowners, seemingly undeterred by the challenges of the beach, fight the shifting sands of ownership in Rodanthe.

In Horseshoe Beach, on Florida's Gulf Coast about ... Many of the community's homes are built on stilts because of a local ordinance and survived heavy damage. Kristin Macqueen was helping friends ...

Wealthy beach-house hunters can minimize the ... shrinking beaches much better than do the older, less pricey homes built on wood stilts in the 1950s and ’60s. For mansions in fire-prone areas ...

located on the left end of the beach. The back-facing sides of those Beachwood East properties are covered in large sandbags, water crashing up to the stilts holding homes high. “It’s about four or ...