‘With engagement, you hope for results’

Officials say efforts to protect vulnerable homes in Buxton have proved challenging and frustrating.

(Photo taken on October 29, 2025 at 9 a.m. Credit: Jenni Koontz/Epic Shutter Photography )

Officials outline the challenges of protecting vulnerable oceanfront homes

By Kip Tabb | Outer Banks Voice

As a storm battered the Outer Banks this week, five more oceanfront homes in Buxton fell on Oct. 28, making a total of 15 such collapses in a month. And at this relatively early stage in the North Atlantic winter storm season, there are about 10-12 other homes on the north end of the village teetering on the edge of collapse.

When many of those homes were built several decades ago, there wasn’t concern about them falling into the sea. For one thing,

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