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BUXTON, N.C.– A 28th location has collapsed into the Atlantic on North Carolina's Outer Banks connected Sunday amid unsmooth seas and formation conditions during a powerful nor'easter that smacked the Carolinas and Virginia with dense snow, hurricane-force winds and unsmooth surf.
This marks the archetypal location to illness connected the Outer Banks successful 2026, pursuing 16 location collapses successful Buxton and Rodanthe successful precocious 2025.
FILE: This representation from FOX Weather Correspondent Robert Ray shows ample waves crashing onshore successful Buxton, North Carolina, wherever galore homes person fallen into the Atlantic successful precocious 2025.
(Robert Ray / FOX Weather)
According to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Sunday's illness occurred connected Tower Circle Road, the determination of respective different location collapses successful Buxton past year.
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The location was unoccupied and privately-owned.
A almighty nor'easter tempest pounded the Outer Banks connected Saturday, leaving unsafe formation conditions on with blowing snowfall and aggravated gusty winds.
The full formation successful beforehand of the colony of Buxton is closed owed to hazardous debris and structures astatine hazard of collapse.
Coastal flooding and formation erosion implicit the years has led to the deterioration of beaches successful the area.
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Homes that were erstwhile hundreds of feet from the formation are present perpetually sitting successful water water, damaged and successful pieces aft continuous beating from the ocean.
FOX Weather was connected the crushed successful Buxton connected Oct. 2, 2025 pursuing a bid of location collapses successful precocious September and aboriginal October.
FILE: FOX Weather Correspondent Katie Byrne reacts to different location falling into the water successful Buxton, North Carolina. This is the 8th location to illness successful conscionable a fewer days.
(FOX Weather)
Correspondent Katie Byrne was preparing for a unrecorded study connected the formation erstwhile a location she had been intimately monitoring began cracking and creaking down her, earlier swaying guardant and collapsing successful the water, caught connected video.
Video showed the location smacking into different 1 susceptible to illness instantly adjacent to it.
Concern for different formation homes successful the country continues arsenic the nor'easter moves up the East Coast connected Sunday.
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