The word vulnerable has appeared in 3,494 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on May 14 in “Beach Houses on the Outer Banks Are Being Swallowed by the Sea” by Richard Fausset:
Three prime beachfront lots are now empty on Ocean Drive, a small stretch of a charmingly scruffy Outer Banks subdivision called Trade Winds Beaches that has, to the chagrin of its property owners, become a sort of poster neighborhood for sea-level rise — particularly since the video of Mr. Pham’s house, which collapsed Tuesday, was shared widely on social media. The once-generous stretch of beach in front of the houses has largely vanished in recent months, leaving them vulnerable to the destructive power of the Atlantic Ocean.
It was Feb. 9 when the first house on the street floated away. A second house, a girthy two-story place with double wraparound porches owned by a Californian named Ralph Patricelli, was claimed by the ocean just hours before Mr. Pham’s.
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