Massive waves from Hurricane Erin have pummeled beaches from Florida to New England, flooding roads, shutting down beaches and eating away the coastline. The storm is spinning just off the Eastern Seaboard, with waves nearly 20 feet tall recorded just off the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

"I've been surfing for 60, 70 years. I've never seen a swell this far ahead of the hurricane, anywhere near anything like this," Malvern Wiche of Rodanthe, North Carolina, told AccuWeather as Erin approached. "It's amazing."

Several houses along the coast of North Carolina are at risk of collapsing into the sea as the pounding surf causes coastal erosion and threatens protective dunes. Water has been sweeping underneath the structures for days, revealing just the wooden stilts that are keeping them a

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