House Collapses and Clean-up Dominate Discussions at Dare Commissioners Meeting

House collapses and clean-up dominate discussions at Dare commissioners meeting

From SamWalkerOBXNews.com Dare County commissioners spent much of their monthly meeting on Monday hearing about and discussing the series of oceanfront house collapses in Buxton and Rodanthe over the past two weeks that has scattered debris along nearly 20 miles of Hatteras Island shoreline. Board of Commissioners Chair Bob Woodard said the latest collapses mark “the third wave of destruction we’ve had just in the last 60 days,” following back-t…

Crews remove more than 140 truckloads of house debris

Debris lines the street Sunday following the collapse of nine oceanfront homes last week in Buxton and Rodanthe. Photo: Don Bowers/Island Free Press Reprinted from an Island Free Press report dated Oct. 6. Cleanup efforts are continuing this week in Buxton and Rodanthe following the collapse of nine oceanfront homes last week — eight in Buxton and one in Rodanthe — as National Park Service crews, area organizations, and volunteers work to remove…