There was plenty of political news this week ? Hyde County fired a manager, Dare County elected new board leadership, and a close race for state Senate was finally decided. The blog this week includes some thoughts on those developments. HYDE COUNTY FIRES A MANAGER Hyde County took another step toward solidifying its reputation as […]
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DOT plans to open Highway 12 to all vehicles by Christmas
North Carolina Department of Transportation officials said today that the preferred short-term solution to repairing Highway 12 at the S-curves in northern Rodanthe will be replacing sandbags and dunes and repairing the highway where it was before it was damaged by Hurricane Sandy and a series of northeasters. Pablo Hernandez, resident construction engineer on the […]
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Checkpoint moves south; part of Pea Island refuge reopens
The northern checkpoint on the four-wheel-drive-only portion of Highway 12 moved over the weekend from the Oregon Inlet Fishing Center to just south of the temporary bridge at Pea Island Inlet. As a result, parts of Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge reopened on Sunday, Dec. 2. Highway 12 and the refuge had been closed since […]
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DOT is looking at two options for Highway 12 repairs
After Hurricane Sandy brushed by the Outer Banks in late October and damaged Highway 12, the North Carolina Department of Transportation said it planned to have the road repaired and open by Thanksgiving. That didn?t happen because of a siege of northeast winds that kept the ocean washing over the highway at Mirlo Beach and […]
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Stuck vehicles cause more DOT restrictions on four-wheel route
The North Carolina Department of Transportation is putting more restrictions on the four-wheel-drive route on northern Hatteras Island because of an ongoing problem with vehicles getting stuck. The problem area for four-wheel-drive vehicles is at the S-curves in northern Rodanthe. Now that the ocean is no longer regularly overwashing the route at high tide, the […]
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The View from Above: New aerial photos of Hatteras Island ….WITH SLIDE SHOW
Island Free Press photographer Don Bowers was back in the air yesterday with Dwight Burrus of Hatteras village to get new photos from above of the Mirlo Beach/S-curves area and Pea Island Inlet. The photos from Mirlo and the S-curves show that the ocean has calmed down after days and day of northeast wind, but, […]
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Seas calm down over Thanksgiving weekend …WITH SLIDE SHOW AND VIDEO
The gray skies, high winds, and heavy seas from low pressure systems off the coast finally gave way to sunshine and just plain old breezy conditions on the day after Thanksgiving. Travelers on Highway 12 faced obstacles from long ferry lines, to a few cancelled ferries, to intermittent overwash on the four-wheel-drive only route around […]
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Looking down the road
Hurricane Sandy?s brush by the Outer Banks almost a month ago was much less dramatic than Hurricane Irene?s visit in August of last year. Irene cut two new inlets and did millions of dollars in damage in the northern Hatteras Island villages. Sandy, by contrast, blew by with high winds, heavy seas, ocean overwash, and […]
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The ocean’s assault on northern Hatteras continues …..WITH VIDEO
The sun tried to break through the low clouds this morning, but only succeeded intermittently. The winds died down somewhat, but now, in the late afternoon, the strong wind from the north/northeast is buffeting us again. The four-wheel-drive route around the S-curves in northern Rodanthe was closed shortly after 10 this morning as high tide […]
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White will ask for recount in state Senate race
The campaign of state Sen. Stan White said over the weekend that the Dare County Democrat will ask this week for a recount in the race for the District 1 seat. Unofficial results on election night had White defeating his Republican opponent, Bill Cook of Beaufort County, by 388 votes. However, when election boards across […]
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