People reports that the ocean in North Carolina was apparently a little hungrier than normal the other day:
Six beachfront properties in North Carolina's Outer Banks collapsed into the ocean on Tuesday, Sept. 30, according to the National Park Service (NPS). The incident comes as two storms continue to batter the East Coast with rough surf.
On Tuesday, the Cape Hatteras National Seashore was notified of five unoccupied houses collapsing between 2 and 2:45 p.m. local time in Buxton, N.C., per a NPS press release. Authorities were later made aware of another property collapsing around 11 p.m. that evening.
Thank goodness these things were "unoccupied!"
Those houses came down like, well, like a ton of bricks.
As one observer notes, the destruction of these houses is not surprising given the geography and geology of the area:
Most of these homes were built long ago. Beach erosion on the Outer Banks is very aggressive and we'll see this happen in small and large storms for years to come. Buxton in particular sits way out on the point, subject to the most extreme weather/erosion.
Local authorities, meanwhile, urged visitors to "stay away from the collapsed house sites and to use caution for miles to the south of the sites, due to the presence of potentially hazardous debris."
Crazy.
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