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Dramatic video shows North Carolina beach house wash away
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Outer Banks home crumbles into Atlantic Ocean during Hurricane Ernesto’s swell
A home in North Carolina’s Outer Banks was swept away on Friday, August 16, as Hurricane Ernesto unleashed hazardous surf conditions across the region.
RODANTHE, N.C. – A beach home was swept into the ocean on North Carolina’s Outer Banks Friday as Hurricane Ernesto brings hazardous conditions to East Coast beaches.
Chicamacomico Banks Fire & Rescue shared video from bystanders that shows the Rodanthe beach home drifting into the surf as rough waves slam the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
Onlookers can be heard screaming and repeating, “Oh my god!”
A second video shows debris strewn across the beach as people survey the damage. It’s the seventh Outer Banks home to collapse in four years, according to WVEC.
North Carolina’s coast is almost entirely made up of narrow, low-lying barrier islands that are increasingly vulnerable to storm surges and to being washed over from both the bay and the sea as the planet warms. As sea levels rise, these islands typically move toward the mainland, frustrating efforts to hold properties in place.
Hurricane Ernesto was slowly pulling away from Bermuda after making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on the western side of the island early Saturday.
Despite being downgraded to a Category 1 storm during its final approach, Bermuda was smacked with 85 mph winds, heavy rain, pounding waves and storm surge.
On the East Coast, beaches from Florida to Maine are expecting an increase in rip currents and surf that could make ocean ventures dangerous through the weekend.
Several other Outer Banks homes are at risk of collapse over the next few days, officials said.
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Women’s Soccer Continues Road Trip At Colorado – University of North Carolina Athletics
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Kickoff is slated for 2 p.m. ET (noon MT) at Pretnup Field. Brad Thompson will be on call for the matinee match, which will stream on ESPN+.
Match Info
Who: (8) Carolina at Colorado
Where: Boulder, Colo. – Pretnup Field
When: Sunday, Aug. 18 – 2 p.m. ET (Noon MT)
Links: Live Stats | Live Stream
Following the retirement of Anson Dorrance – the Tar Heels’ first and only women’s soccer head coach to date – on Aug. 11, associate head coach Damon Nahas will serve as interim head coach while UNC Director of Athletics Bubba Cunningham conducts a national search.
Thursday’s season-opening victory at Denver marked the first career win for Nahas as a head coach at the collegiate level.
Ten Things to Know:
- This will be the seventh meeting between Carolina and Colorado in program history with UNC leading the all-time series at 6-0. The first meeting was 1998 in Boulder – the only game in the series to be held there prior to Sunday.
- The Tar Heels have never given up a goal to the Buffaloes, having out-scored them 16-0 all-time. The largest margin of victory was a 6-0 shutout in 1999.
- The last meeting between the two teams was a 1-0 win in the second round of the 2019 NCAA Tournament; UNC went on to a national runner-up finish that year. The lone goal was scored by Alessia Russo, a star for Arsenal and the England National Team.
- Tessa Dellarose scored the first goal of the season on Thursday at Denver, which was her second career goal. Bella Sember netted the game-winner for her sixth career goal.
- The Tar Heels held Denver to just four shots on Thursday, including none in the first half. In 2023, UNC had held its opponents shotless during a half seven times, including four times in the opening frame.
- Asha Means joins fellow senior Sember along with junior Dellarose as this year’s team captains.
- The Tar Heels checked in at No. 8 in the United Soccer Preseason Coaches poll. The team has been ranked for 513 consecutive weeks.
- Junior forward Maddie Dahlien was recently named to the U.S. U-20 National Team which will compete in the 2024 FIFA U-20 World Cup from Aug. 31-Sept. 22 in Colombia.
- Two former standouts in Crystal Dunn and Emily Fox won gold with Team USA in Paris. It was the USWNT’s fifth Olympic gold; at least two Tar Heels have been on all five of those rosters.
- Nahas, who will serve as interim head coach, enters his ninth complete season at UNC this year. Dorrance has high praise for him: “Damon Nahas is the best coach I’ve ever seen. I think he’s the best soccer coach in the country, and I include myself in that circle.”
After Sunday’s match, the Tar Heels return to Chapel Hill for their home opener on Thursday, Aug. 22, against Georgia. Tickets are available for purchase here.
Stay up to date with UNC women’s soccer by following the Tar Heels on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
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Another house collapses into the ocean along the Outer Banks
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RODANTHE, N.C. (WTVD) — Rough seas from Hurricane Ernesto have sent at least one home into the ocean in Rodanthe.
Video and pictures posted by Chicamacomico Banks Fire & Rescue show the breathtaking scene with debris littering the beach and a whole home floating in the surf.
“Please do not enter the ocean as the debris will be washing around for the next few days,” the first responders wrote on social media.
The area where this is happening is along Corbina Drive, and homes like this collapsing into the ocean is becoming all too frequent a problem in the Outer Banks. Just in the past 4 years there have been six homes in Rodanthe that have collapsed.
Collapsing homes along the ocean can cause a myriad of problems for people as well as the local ecosystem. That’s why the Superintendent of the National Park Service covering Cape Hatteras launched a pilot program to buy up some of the homes to tear them down.
“We had to have willing sellers’ houses that were essentially in the ocean at high tide every day. We found the money to purchase those properties. We removed the houses completely, demolished them completely and restored the beach. And if we went out to that location today, you wouldn’t have much to see because it would just be a beautiful beach,” said David Hullac with the U.S. National Park Service.
They’ve successfully bought two homes and want to see the state fund the program even more.
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‘Hope in the air’: Rep. Adams on enthusiasm for Harris in NC
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