Buxton, NC – A house on the beach on the house along the outdoor banks of North Carolina collapsed in surfing, carrying the total number of houses claimed by the Atlantic Ocean to 12 in the past five years.
The two-story wooden house at the north end of Hatteras Island collapsed on Tuesday afternoon, strewn with the sand with debris sewn by the nails. The house was unoccupied, said Mike Barber, spokesperson for Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
“Sea staff are released today, cleaning the beach south of the collapse site,” said Barber in an email on Wednesday. He said the owner also hired an entrepreneur to “work mainly near the house collapse site to eliminate most of the remaining house structure and nearby debris associated with collapse”.
The previous 11 massacres since May 2020 were all in the small village of Rodanthe, the most eastern point in North Carolina, and made famous by the novelist Nicholas Sparks. During the recent state brush with Hurricane Erin, many residents looked at two houses by the sea, but they surfing surfing.
The last house to succumb was less than a mile (1.6 kilometer) from the famous Cape Hatteras lighthouse, which was moved to 2,900 feet (884 meters) inside the land in 1999 to save it from erosion.
