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Eight homes collapsed in North Carolina's Outer Banks due to impacts from recent hurricanes.

The area has lost 20 homes in the last five years due to significant coastal erosion.

The Outer Banks are losing shoreline much faster than other U.S. coasts, at a rate of over 15 feet per year.

Eight homes collapsed in North Carolina’s Outer Banks this week from impacts of Hurricane Imelda, which passed as close as 170 miles from the East Coast before being drawn away from Hurricane Humberto in a rare Fujiwhara interaction.

These collapses mark the 20th home lost along the Outer Banks in just five years.

Coastal experts say the relentless combination of sea levels rising, flooding, rip currents and erosion is steadily eating away at the shoreline, moving the coastline i

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