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| Page Views: 1,444 Last Visit to North Carolina: September, 2003 I Visit Here Frequently | Hurricane Isabel by b1bob - last update: Feb 15, 2004 |
| public opinion summed up on the back of a truck |
On 18 September 2003, Hurricane Isabel ravaged a huge chunk of the east coast. It made landfall near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina at 1.00 pm right at high tide. There was extensive damage throughout the Outer Banks. |
| what's left of Jeanette's Pier |
|  | The angry sea chewed off a huge chunk of Jenette's Pier in Nags Head, just north of the old Ramada Inn (now a Comfort Inn). The same place I saw someone catch a small shark in August, 1975 was in mid air after Hurricane Isabel. I was also told that the storm cut a narrow inlet in Hatteras Island, just like a similar hurricane in 1933. |
Even my sentimental favourite hotel was slightly damaged, but not toppled, by Hurricane Isabel. Although it is now a Comfort Inn, this is the hotel at which I stayed at my first visit to Nags Head in 1975. Many of you have seen the photo of me in one of the rooms just after a long day at the beach. (Some have said, "You were so cute at 6 years old. What happened to you?") Windows were blown out on the parking lot side of the hotel and, I'm sure on the oceanfront side. Because the hotel, originally a Ramada Inn, was built in the late 1960s or early 1970s, it fell under an building code that required it to be able to withstand oncoming hurricanes of this magnitude. | | | an old favourite slightly damaged |
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| The Beach Road the day after |
| | The day after the storm, Virginia Dare Trail, or the Beach Road, looked more aptly named than usual. Instead of being the main highway ALONGSIDE the beach, the main highway was PART OF the beach. |
Not long after the winds died down, power crews (ironically Dominion Virginia Power) was fast at work getting electricity restored for folks in North Carolina's Outer Banks well before they bothered with Hampton Roads or the Richmond area. Because the Outer Banks are more lightly populated and were a higher priority, it put the lie to their reasoning for doing Northern Virginia before Hampton Roads and Richmond. | | |
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BruceDunning Sat Feb 7, 2009 22:50 UTC
I have eaten here times in the past-30 years ago. I helped manage CArolina Shores plantation up there. Still a pretty place today-but maybe more tourists. | volopolo Mon Jun 9, 2008 11:55 UTC
Another page of you with a lot of information! | richiecdisc Mon Jan 28, 2008 17:52 UTC
Didn't know there were so many varieties of NC bbq, Nat but can tell you I am having a hankering for some after reading this! And a follow-up with Krispy Kreme would do just fine too. | TheTravelSlut Mon Jul 23, 2007 13:29 UTC
Thanks for all the NC tips. I travel there frequently also and many I had never either seen or heard of so now I have some new things to check out in my Nov. trip! Thanks again, Ann, The Travel Slut |
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