Exploring the options: How Hatteras Island is confronting home collapses while owners push for faster solutions

Exploring the options: How Hatteras Island is confronting home collapses while owners push for faster solutions

This article is part of a series that dives deeper into home collapses. To read Part 1, which focuses on what happens before and after a collapse, click here. A line of houses, some more than a half-century old, were once positioned safely back from the ocean. Now, roughly four dozen sit with pilings exposed, septic systems visible above the tide, and decks hanging over a void where the beach used to be. In the last five years, the Atlantic has …