Several damaged homes dangle precariously along washed out Florida bluff from Nicole

Drone footage from storm chaser Brandon Clement shows four homes torn apart by Nicole's relentless surf. In one home, the ground is giving way underneath their outdoor deck. Next door, the surf has already washed away any semblance of a backyard or deck and has left the bottom floor exposed

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Several homes have been heavily damaged and appear to be on borrowed time until they collapse into the Atlantic Ocean along the shores of a neighborhood near Daytona Beach as massive beach erosion continues in the wake of Hurricane Nicole.

Drone footage from storm chaser Brandon Clement with Live Storms Media shows four of the dozens of homes in the Wilbur-By-The-Sea area torn apart by the relentless surf.  In one home, the ground is giving way underneath their outdoor deck, and a palm tree succumbs to gravity as the camera rolls. 

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Next door, the surf has already washed away any semblance of a backyard or deck and has left the bottom floor exposed; stacked-up dining chairs now visible from behind the missing wall.

Their neighbor has a massive backyard pool and outdoor deck now left hanging over the raging seas with only small metal support poles holding them up as the surrounding earth continues to wash away.

The fourth home had already sustained the most damage as of Thursday morning; the single-story beachfront home has had much of the roof and ocean-facing walls torn off, exposing a bedroom and living room that must have been treated to countless sunrises over the years. A long pool sits cracked in half in what used to be their backyard, already part of the massive debris field piling up along the shoreline.

The four homes are just among several in Volusia County in danger of destruction from the surf.  

Dozens of buildings in grave danger from advancing surf 

County officials said 24 hotel and condominium buildings are now unsafe to enter – including 10 buildings that have 10 stories or more – while 25 homes in the Wilbur-By-The-Sea neighborhood are declared structurally unsafe.

"The structural damage along our coastline is unprecedented," Volusia County Manager George Recktenwald said in a news release. "We have never experienced anything like this before, so we ask for your patience as we make our assessments. As always, the safety of our residents and visitors is our top priority. This is going to be a long road to recovery."

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Daytona Beach Police Chief Michael Fowler told FOX Weather the situation along the beachfront is a "worst case scenario."

"Right now it’s too hazardous out there. If one of these buildings go down… or if you go out on your back deck and fall in, we’re not going to be able to get to you," Fowler said. "This surf is way too big; it’s not safe."

Hurricane Nicole came ashore in nearby Vero Beach at 3 a.m. Thursday with sustained winds of 75 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm is the first to strike Florida's Atlantic Coast in November since the Yankee Storm in 1935.

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