Crews were expected Tuesday afternoon to begin cleaning up the debris from an unoccupied house at collapsed into the ocean at Rodanthe, North Carolina, in Cape Hatteras National Seashore. It marked the sixth time in the past four years that the ocean has claimed a house on the seashore.
Rather than wait until two houses collapsed into the ocean at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, the National Park Service has used $700,000 from the Land and Water Conservation Fund to purchase them and plans to have them removed.