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Truro home survives blizzard, barely
Homeowners plan to move home from the edge of the dune, according to a statement from the town.
A home precariously perched on stilts on the edge of Ballston Beach in Truro on Cape Code survived the Blizzard of 2022, but just barely.
Owned by Kathleen and Thomas Dennis, according to The Boston Globe, the couple is trying to save the two-bedroom cottage at 133 S. Pamet Road, valued at $1.5 million.
A former Coast Guard post dating back to 1850, the home’s situation got precarious after three pilings shoring up the home were exposed after a Jan. 17 storm, according to a statement from the town of Truro.
Ahead of the blizzard, the homeowners added wood bracings to stabilize the house, according to the town.
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“There are plans to move the property following the outcome of the storm,” the town said in the same statement.
After the most recent storm, more pilings were exposed due to more beach erosion, though the home was still standing, according to social media footage.
The couple’s lawyer, Benjamin Zehnder, told the Globe he couldn’t comment about the property because of pending legal matters.
However, he did speak generally with the paper about the situation.
Zehnder told the Globe he was shocked by what he saw last summer on a boat ride offshore from Ballston beach.
“The erosion on the backside, especially on Truro and Ballston, is significant,” he told the paper. “It’s not a couple of feet. It’s 20, 30, 60 feet in one storm, laterally. It’s huge. Where those houses are relative to the escarpment, the landowners can tell you on a daily basis.”
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