North Carolina park officials were warning visitors to avoid the beaches of the Outer Banks in Rodanthe this weekend after two houses collapsed into the ocean within hours of each other. In the early hours of Friday,

Over the past four years there have been nine house collapses, the National Park Service said. One house collapsed last month, possibly due to waves produced by Hurricane Ernesto despite being hundreds of miles from the Outer Banks, the Times reported.

Two more Outer Banks houses have collapsed within the same day in Rodanthe, North Carolina, the eighth and ninth to do so in the past four years.