In the Outer Banks, the land is always in motion. These barrier islands off North Carolina's coast migrate and erode. Infrastructure is precarious and overdevelopment is exacerbated by frequent storms and sea-level rise. The Banks is also a broadly Christian place, especially among inter-generational families. Focusing on Hatteras Island, this article explores how time is experienced amid ecological instability. My analysis suggests that Outer Bankers live within two major temporalities, which I call intermittent and linear time, each of which is entangled with morally resonant ideas about progress and modernity. Intermittent time, the older of the two, is anchored in relations with God and shaped by the destructive and recreative environment on a volatile coast. This traditional form of future-thinking is not anti-capitalist, but it does capitalism differently, offering a speculative possibility for redressing unsustainable development.
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