With almost 10 homes collapsing into the ocean in the past week along North Carolina’s Outer Banks, those who live there know the problem of coastal erosion is only worsening.

Barry Crum owns Crum Works, Inc., a company that specializes in retrofitting and moving homes threatened by coastal erosion.

However, even for someone experienced with this coastal threat, Crum said the homes lost more recently came as a shock.

"It's been pretty heartbreaking because I've lived here all my life," Crum said. "I've watched a lot of storm damage happen, but I've never seen anything like this. The erosion that is attacking this particular spot at this time is just, I think it's unprecedented, at least in our area. Another thing that's hard is when these houses are going in, the ocean is so rough at th

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