Aaaaand Another North Carolina Outer Banks Home Falls Into The Sea; 12 Properties In Five Years Gone

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The sea has claimed yet another home along a stretch of the Outer Banks in North Carolina, where erosion, rising seas and churning storms have caused the collapse of a growing number of oceanfront houses. The latest incident came Tuesday, when an unoccupied, two-story, wood-shingled home crumbled into the surf in the small community of Buxton, along the north end of Hatteras Island.

Officials with the Cape Hatteras National Seashore warned visitors to avoid the site because of the potential for dangerous debris that litters the beach and potentially spreads for miles in the water.

The demise of the saltbox house at 46227 Tower Circle Rd. marked the 12th home collapse along that stretch of the seashore over the past five years. Most of the collapses have occurred in Rodanthe, which lies north of Buxton.

“Unfortunately, it is all too common these days,” David Hallac, superintendent of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, told The Washington Post last year after two houses on a single block in Rodanthe fell into the sea in one day. A third fell soon afterward.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/09/17/outerbanks-house-collapse-buxton/

https://wapo.st/3VWnXKU

[Jim__]

1. Wow! Imagine how many would have collapsed if climated change were real!

[littlemissmartypants]

2. Thanks for sharing this. ...

I was going to post this yesterday but it was right before my nap and I fell asleep and forgot. ❤️