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.

Another house collapsed on the Outer Banks, prompting calls for people to avoid part of the North Carolina coast. Cape Hatteras National Seashore said the unoccupied house fell early Sept. 20 in Rodanthe, a roughly 215-mile drive southeast from Raleigh. The house is the eighth to collapse in the area during the past four years.