North Carolina Department of Transportation workers have already begun removal of storm debris from state maintained roads on Roanoke Island. State and county crews will begin pick up on Hatteras Island beginning Monday, Sept. 12. Crews will pass through areas only once, so residents and businesses are asked to move debris to the side of […]
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The National Park Service will begin a public scoping period and hold two public meetings in October to obtain feedback and ideas from the public about areas of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore in the Buxton and Frisco area that experience flooding. Several locations, including the Cape Point Campground, beach parking lots (near Ramp 43 […]
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The North Carolina Board of Transportation today awarded the crew of the N.C. Ferry Divison’s M/V Swan Quarter with an Extra Mile Award for its actions responding to a fire on a nearby charter vessel in July. The Swan Quarter had just departed Ocracoke when it received a distress call just before 2 p.m. on […]
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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN Dare County has updated its preliminary estimate of damage from Tropical Storm Hermine, which passed over the Outer Banks on Saturday morning, Sept. 3. The storm spun up a tornado in a Hatteras village campground before it moved offshore and the wind increased to a sustained mid-30s with gusts […]
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Removal of storm debris from the unincorporated areas of Dare County will begin as soon as possible and the schedule will be announced as soon as established. To expedite the process, Dare County Public Works requests that residents and businesses properly separate debris into piles as follows: Yard debris Building debris, flooded building contents Metal […]
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“But we got to face the fact that there were problems and we need to fit it,” he added. County manger Robert Outten said the response was based on information that called for winds in the 40-mph range, minor to moderate soundside flooding. “So all the response, all of the efforts, all of the things […]
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Since Tropical Storm Hermine has left the area, National Park Service biotechnicians have been hard at work determining the status of the remaining sea turtle nests along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Sea turtles had a banner year on the islands in 2016, breaking the record number of nests within the seashore with a total […]
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On Labor Day Monday, roughly 30 Hatteras Islanders were foregoing their holiday plans to move old refrigerators and soaking wet furnishings and rake piles and piles of eel grass out of the yards of their island in Hatteras village. These hardworking folks were part of the Hatteras Island Community Emergency Response Team, or CERT – […]
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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN storm surge from Tropical Storm Hermine and began opening up businesses for visitors who seem to be enjoying themselves, despite the stormy start to the last holiday weekend of summer. Ferries started running again to and from Ocracoke this morning and visitors, who had been under a mandatory evacuation […]
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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN After a stormy night — that included a tornado in Hatteras village — Tropical Storm Hermine moved over the Outer Banks and off the North Carolina coast about 8:45 this morning. Briefly, all was quiet and some folks were out and about thinking that perhaps the worst of the […]
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