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Beaches in the area have been closed as a coastal flooding advisory is in effect for North Carolina’s Outer Banks, including Hatteras and Ocracoke islands, until 8 a.m. Monday.
A North Carolina coastal storm sent a home into the ocean off the Outer Banks island of Hatteras overnight Friday, marking the sixth house collapse in the area this year.. The unoccupied home was ...
In this image provided by National Park Service, a beach house that collapsed along North Carolina's Outer Banks rest in the water on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, in Rodanthe, N.C.
The Outer Banks, separating the Atlantic Ocean (east) from Currituck Albemarle Sounds (north) and Pamlico Sound (south) The Outer Banks (frequently abbreviated OBX) are a 200 mi (320 km) string of barrier islands and spits off the coast of North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, on the east coast of the United States.
The surf zone or breaker zone is the nearshore part of a body of open water between the line at which the waves break and the shore. As ocean surface waves approach a shore, they interact with the bottom, get taller and steeper, and break, forming the foamy surface called surf. The region of breaking waves defines the surf zone.
Figure Eight Island is a barrier island in the U.S. state of North Carolina, just north of Wrightsville Beach, widely known as an affluent summer colony and vacation destination. [2] The island is part of the Wilmington Metropolitan Area , and lies between the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean .
A portion of debris from the collapsed house at 23039 G A Kohler Court is shown near houses at 23047 G A Kohler Court and 23237 Sea Oats Drive in Rodanthe.
North Carolina Highway 58 leads west from Atlantic Beach, running the length of Bogue Banks to Emerald Isle. According to the United States Census Bureau , the town of Atlantic Beach has a total area of 2.7 square miles (6.9 km 2 ), of which 2.3 square miles (6.0 km 2 ) is land and 0.35 square miles (0.9 km 2 ), or 12.87%, is water.