It seems that all the media do it this time of year ? the top 10 news stories of the year, the top 10 singers, actors, or athletes of the year or the decade or whatever. So I thought I would close out the year with what I think were the top 10 stories on […]
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Merry Christmas from the weary and wet Island Free Press staff
?Twas the weekend before Christmas, and all though our land,The wind was blowing and kicking up sand. The ocean was frightful, and the waves surged to shore,Bringing sand and water on the highway once more. The wind, it shifted from the east to the west,And the tide started rising, ending many a fest. Sorry, Island […]
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Northeasters in north Rodanthe: A retrospective, starring Serendipity, WITH A SLIDE SHOW
Island Free Press photographer Don Bowers has been photographing the wrath of storms on Hatteras Island for a long time now. And he has a particularly large collection of photos from the last three years? worth of significant northeasters at Mirlo Beach in Rodanthe and the S-curves. In fact, he?s been photographing the storms since […]
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Are there any lessons for Cape Hatteras in a stakeholder clash at another national seashore?
Across the continent, on the Pacific Ocean, there is a national seashore that is grappling with issues similar to those that face the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. That would be the Point Reyes National Seashore on the California coast north of San Francisco. A friend and Free Press reader sent me an article last month […]
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Soundside Surprises: What’s with the no-advance-warning Pamlico Sound flooding?
Twice in November, Hatteras and Ocracoke islands had coastal flooding from the Pamlico Sound. And both events caught our local National Weather Service forecasters in Newport, N.C., by surprise. Now it seems possible that both of the flood tides might be connected to higher than normal tides that have been observed up and down the […]
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