A third home has collapsed along Cape Hatteras National Seashore, highlighting the ongoing threat of erosion and rising sea levels to North Carolina's Outer Banks. The National Park Service is urging visitors to avoid the beach and stay out of the water near the north end of Rodanthe and potentially for miles to the south following an early Friday morning collapse of an unoccupied home.

The unoccupied house in northern Rodanthe tumbled into the water in the early morning hours, damaging the house next door with debris, the National Park Service said.

This week, with the presence of high surf and winds, another handful of houses are being monitored of potentially being swept away by the ocean.