Owners of collapsed OBX home warned NC leaders in advance [Video]

RODANTHE, N.C. — By Monday afternoon, Jake Overton had cleared three truckloads of housing debris from the sands of Mirlo Beach in Rodanthe, North Carolina, after the area’s seventh beach house collapse since 2020. 

The housing materials came from a home collapse on Corbina Drive Friday afternoon. It was the second house to fall in 2024 for the Rodanthe community. There were scattered wood pilings as far as 11 miles up the Outer Banks shoreline. 

No one was inside the home at the time, and no injuries were reported.

“We had no idea how it would happen that quick,” Overton said.

Officials and homeowners have grappled with how to address the issueof houses at risk of collapsing into the ocean, with pricey solutions such as relocating homes away from the shoreline and beach nourishment. As previously reported by 13News Now, the scope of what could …