Hurricane Erin battered North Carolina's Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway and surged under beachfront homes before the huge storm slowly began to move fart...

Two homes on the North Carolina Outer Banks sit precariously in the high waves with their days seemingly numbered.

"Large breaking waves of 10 to 15 feet" will trigger flooding up to one foot deep on "vulnerable coastal roads" and send debris onto roadways, the weather service said.