8 Houses Fell Into The Sea Last Week Alone On The Outer Banks; NC Officials Bracing For More, Staging Debris Crews
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Last week alone, eight houses had fallen into the ocean — five of them in the span of a single hour — in the small Hatteras Island town of Buxton. Another had fallen in nearby Rodanthe, amid the swelling tides and churning Atlantic Ocean surf kicked up by offshore storms.
Recent days have seen a feverish sprint to clear and contain the devastation, a push that involved private landowners, volunteers and contractors with heavy machinery. Dozens of National Park Service employees helped collect 363 truckloads of debris off a stretch of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, officials said, with still more to do. “It’s a major cleanup effort,” said Dave Hallac, superintendent of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
But now, with that cleanup still incomplete and forecasters warning of more heavy rain, strong winds, fierce waves and coastal flooding that could lie ahead in coming days, local officials are bracing for the possibility that the sea will claim more homes.
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Noah Gillam, Dare County’s planning director, told The Washington Post in an email Wednesday that “approximately 30-some structures” in the area remain in some form of danger and that building inspectors have been making daily checks on certain homes in Buxton. “Not all of these are at risk of immediate collapse but have been impacted from recent erosion and storm events,” Gillam wrote, adding that the county has cut power to about two dozen homes because they no longer have functioning septic tanks, have seen electrical systems compromised or otherwise have structural damage or signs of foundation failure.
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