The park service on Friday morning was also monitoring several other threatened houses at G A Kohler Court and Sea Oats Drive, where the three houses fell in September.
The beach in front of Rodanthe is temporarily closed due to hazardous debris, the park service said. Cape Hatteras National Seashore is urging visitors to avoid the beach and ocean for potentially many miles to the south of Rodanthe.
The National Weather Service reported “significant coastal flooding” Friday morning along the Outer Banks, leading to the closure of N.C. 12 from the north end of Pea Island to Rodanthe. All lanes of N.C. 12 were also closed on the north end of Ocracoke on Friday morning because of ocean overwash flooding.
Since 2020, 11 beach homes have fallen into the ocean in Rodanthe, most of them built in the 1980s and ’90s, seemingly safely away from the Atlantic Ocean at the time. Friday’s collapse is the sixth since May.
Federal, state and local officials have been working for years to address erosion on Hatteras Island, particularly in north Rodanthe. With beach erosion rates of 10-15 feet per year, at least two dozen more homes in the area are threatened, the NPS said.
The park service on Friday morning was also monitoring several other threatened houses at G A Kohler Court and Sea Oats Drive, where the three houses fell in September.
The beach in front of Rodanthe is temporarily closed due to hazardous debris, the park service said. Cape Hatteras National Seashore is urging visitors to avoid the beach and ocean for potentially many miles to the south of Rodanthe.
The National Weather Service reported “significant coastal flooding” Friday morning along the Outer Banks, leading to the closure of N.C. 12 from the north end of Pea Island to Rodanthe. All lanes of N.C. 12 were also closed on the north end of Ocracoke on Friday morning because of ocean overwash flooding.
Since 2020, 11 beach homes have fallen into the ocean in Rodanthe, most of them built in the 1980s and ’90s, seemingly safely away from the Atlantic Ocean at the time. Friday’s collapse is the sixth since May.
Federal, state and local officials have been working for years to address erosion on Hatteras Island, particularly in north Rodanthe. With beach erosion rates of 10-15 feet per year, at least two dozen more homes in the area are threatened, the NPS said.