Home Collapses Into Jersey Shore Inlet Amid Storms, Coastal Flooding

A Rhode Island school district will begin serving cold sandwiches instead of hot lunches to students whose families owe lunch money. Warwick Public Schools says it is owed more than $40,000 from outstanding lunch payments and cannot afford to absorb the costs. The new policy begins next Monday. A local restaurant owner wrote on Facebook that the district twice turned down a $4,000 donation for the lunch debt.

A home collapsed into the inlet along the southern end of the Jersey shore Saturday amid an intense rush of water during a storm-swelled high tide Saturday morning. 

The strength of high tide caused the home to collapse and it was sent flowing down the Grassy Sound Inlet near the North Wildwood Bridge in Wildwood, authorities say.

Tony Deutsch, who runs the Facebook page WatchTheTramcarPleasedotCom, told NBC10 in Philadelphia that the home floated in the inlet several city blocks.

The home, which was originally in the north end of the community, is now on the south side.

There were no immediate reports of any injuries.

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