The collapsed house is pictured in a provided photo from Cape Hatteras National Seashore on Feb. 9, 2022, in Rodanthe, North Carolina.
It said visitors should use caution on the beach and in the ocean between the villages of Rodanthe and Salvo due to RODANTHE, N.C. - A beachfront home on North Carolina’s Outer Banks collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean, officials with the National Park Service said on Wednesday — as the area faces worsening beach erosion, sea-level rise and high-tide flooding.The collapse occurred sometime overnight on Feb.
9 in an area that has been particularly prone to erosion for more than a decade, according to the Island Free Press. The five-bedroom beach cottage, which had been listed as a vacation rental, was built in 1980, real estate records on Trulia.com show.
It had a market value of $328,900, according to the site.The waves were also spreading debris along the Outer Banks shoreline, according to the National Park Service.