Note: The video above is from a previous report made before the 8th house collapsed in Buxton.

BUXTON, N.C. (WNCN) — Another house collapsed Thursday afternoon in Buxton along North Carolina's Outer Banks, making the eighth one to have fallen in three days.

According to officials with Cape Hatteras National Seashore, a house at 46221 Tower Circle Road in Buxton collapsed into the water shortly before 5 p.m. Wednesday. It is the fifth unoccupied house along that road to have fallen this week, with the three others located nearby on Cottage Avenue.

Parts of the North Carolina coast have been battered this week by large waves caused by far-off hurricanes Imelda and Humberto. The water conditions leave oceanfront homes like those in the Outer Banks — many of which have already had their fou

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