Several extra North Carolina houses have collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean, and extra might collapse within the coming days, in keeping with the National Park Service.
Five unoccupied houses within the Outer Banks fell into the ocean on Tuesday afternoon amid tough surf, officers mentioned.
The Outer Banks is a sequence of barrier islands stretching the coast of North Carolina, that includes greater than 100 miles of shoreline. The picturesque seaside communities are identified for his or her seaside houses propped on excessive stilts.
But greater than two dozen privately-owned houses alongside the Cape Hatteras National Seashore have collapsed into the Atlantic since 2020 — 16 of them since Sept. 16 of this yr.
