Public meeting on threatened oceanfront homes slated for Sept. 18 at CSI

A portion of debris from a collapsed house in Rodanthe, September 2024. (Photo: Cape Hatteras National Seashore)

According to a timeline from the Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CHNS), since May 2020, 11 privately owned homes have collapsed on CHNS beaches, all of them in Rodanthe—including three in one week in September 2024. Many others are threatened with the same fate.

CHNS Superintendent Dave Hallac has called it “one of the most significant problems that I think we’ve dealt with in a long time.” And the story of Outer Banks houses collapsing into the ocean has generated national and international headlines everywhere from the Washington Post to 9News in Australia.

On Sept. 18, Dare County will host an in-pe

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