An ongoing coastal storm has claimed a beachfront home along North Carolina’s Outer Banks and the National Park Service warns that others could fall in coming days. The house at 23241 Surf Side Drive in Rodanthe fell under cover of darkness between sunset Nov. 14 and dawn Nov. 15, Cape Hatteras National Seashore said in a news release.

A rapidly strengthening area of low pressure off the Carolina coast on Friday will bring significant coastal impacts to the Outer Banks in the form of damaging wind gusts, moderate to major coastal flooding and heavy rain.

Tropical Storm Sara has formed in the Caribbean and is expected to bring life-threatening rainfall, flooding, and the potential for mudslides to parts of Central America, the National Hurricane Center said.

From SamWalkerOBXNews.com A coastal storm will likely cause soundside flooding along southern Hatteras Island and Ocracoke and ocean overwash from Oregon Inlet to Buxton starting early Friday morning.

A slug of moisture that impacted the Gulf Coast with Tornado Warnings and flash flooding is expected to cause heavy rainfall across the eastern Carolinas. Expected rainfall totals could approach an inch along the I-40 corridor and 2-4 inches along the Outer Banks.

FOX Weather's Robert Ray became stranded by floodwater on North Carolina's Outer Banks on Friday morning as a powerful coastal storm pounded the mid-Atlantic region.