An unoccupied house collapsed in the Outer Banks in North Carolina this week, the sixth dwelling lost in the past four years, according to officials for the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
This photo provided by the National Park Service shows a beach house collapsing along North Carolina’s Outer Banks on Tuesday, May 10, 2022. An unoccupied house collapsed in the Outer Banks in North Carolina this week, the sixth …
The house in Rodanthe, North Carolina, collapsed at around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, CHNS officials said. A section of shoreline was closed so that debris could be cleaned up. A section of road in Rodanthe remains closed. CHNS officials warned visitors in a Thursday release to “consider wearing hard-soled shoes and remain cautious on the beach and in the water in front of Rodanthe as pieces of debris continue to wash ashore.”Erosion along the seashore has caused five other house collapses since 2020, officials said.
Severe weather exacerbates the situation, with two of the six house collapses happening in Rodanthe during a nor’easter on May 10, 2022. Concerns about the erosion of the barrier islands that make up the Outer Banks led officials to move the Cape Hatteras lighthouse nearly 3,000 feet inland in 1999. When it was first constructed in 1870, it had been 1,500 feet away from the ocean, CHNS officials said.
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