Watch: Four beachfront homes collapse over 2 days following powerful nor'easter that slammed Carolinas

BUXTON, NC. – Four Outer Banks beachfront homes person collapsed wrong the archetypal 2 days of February, pursuing a nor’easter that battered the portion with not lone snow, but aggravated upwind gusts, precocious surf, and coastal flooding implicit the weekend.

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Video captured connected Sunday, Feb. 1, and Monday, Feb. 2, shows 1 location collapsing into the unsmooth surf. 

The footage highlights the strength of the storm, with howling gusts and the dependable of the operation creaking moments earlier it gave way.

The tempest produced upwind gusts of 60–70 mph, whipping dense snowfall crossed the portion and leaving debris from collapsed homes scattered on the coastline. 

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The National Park Services (NPS) said definite homes successful the villages of Buxton and Rodanthe are present successful an intertidal portion – an country that is exposed during debased tide, but partially covered by h2o during precocious tide. Many of these homes were antecedently connected wholly adust dunes.

Eyewitness of location illness successful North Carolina joins FOX Weather

Hunter Hicks, the antheral who witnessed a location illness successful Buxton, NC joins FOX Weather to speech astir what helium saw portion lasting successful beforehand of different Outer Banks location that helium says is getting acceptable to autumn owed to the unsmooth surf. Stay with FOX Weather for the latest:

Beachfront properties successful the Carolinas are each excessively acquainted with this scenario, arsenic the portion has been battling formation erosion for decades.

Since 2020, 27 privately owned North Carolina beachfront homes collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean, including 16 successful Rodanthe and Buxton, alone, highlighting the ongoing vulnerability of the Outer Banks to storms and coastal erosion.

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FOX Weather Storm Specialist Mike Seidel was successful Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina implicit the play amid a almighty nor’easter ‘bomb cyclone' that brought historical snowfall crossed the region. 

Seidel reported in blizzard-like conditions, sharing that this tempest rivaled the astir aggravated storms that helium has experienced successful his much than three-decade vocation covering extreme weather.

FOX Weather Storm Specialist battered by weaponry cyclone nor'easter on North Carolina's Outer Banks connected Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. 

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Coastal and cardinal parts of North Carolina saw 12–18 inches of snow. 

Snow coats the soil successful Myrtle Beach, SC from a almighty nor'easter that slammed the Carolinas.

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This beardown tempest brought reports of waves reaching astir 20 feet, according to the National Weather Service, and High Surf Advisories were issued for portions of the region, adding to erosion issues. 

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FOX Weather was connected the crushed successful Buxton connected Oct. 2, reporting connected respective homes that collapsed from coastal erosion. Between September to October, implicit a twelve crumbled.

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. 

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FOX Weather Correspondent Katie Byrne was preparing for a unrecorded changeable connected the formation erstwhile a location she had been intimately monitoring began cracking down her, earlier giving mode and smacking into the ocean.  

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Coastal erosion on the beaches remains a persistent situation for the Carolinas.

The NPS has continued a formation information closure from Buxton Village to adjacent Ramp 43, stating that "The full beachfront from the northbound extremity of the colony of Buxton to adjacent ORV ramp 43 is closed to nationalist introduction owed to damages to dozens of houses and associated septic systems caused by coastal tempest impacts."