In North Carolina’s Outer Banks, a community is spending millions to save its economy from collapsing into the ocean(Photo/WTKR)(CBS) — In Buxton, a village on one of the barrier islands of North Carolina’s Outer Banks, it’s go time for Dare County Manager Bobby Outten and his crew in their efforts to restore several miles of eroded shoreline. “We have a huge economy that we need to protect, and the only reason anybody comes to Dare County is to either fish, buy a boat or go to the beach,” Outten told CBS News. “So we’re building a beach,” Outten, who also serves as the Dare County attorney, explained. Since 2020, 32 homes in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore area north of Buxton have collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean, according to numbers from the National Park Service. Residents hope this new Dare County-funded project saves this area and protects any sort of future developments from new storms.