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 By: Squid Pro Quo | Posted By: Squid Pro Quo - (Send PM) Member Since: 7/21/2008 Location: Total Posts: 7496 Experience:  Date Posted: 8/27/2024 4:52 PM |  |
August 27-30, 2011. At the time, it was one of the costliest hurricanes on record causing damage in excess of 13.5 billion. Here's picture from Waves looking towards the Pamlico Sound.
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By: Squid Pro Quo | Posted By: Squid Pro Quo - (Send PM) Member Since: 7/21/2008 Location: Total Posts: 7496 Experience: Date Posted: 8/27/2024 4:54 PM | |
Of course, the final blow to the iconic Frisco pier.
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 By: Tim-OBX | Posted By: Tim-OBX - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/2/2004 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 25638 Experience: Date Posted: 8/27/2024 4:59 PM | |
Wasn't that the storm that made the new inlet which caused Hatteras to not have a road for a couple months. | ||
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 By: Bentmtn | Posted By: Bentmtn - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/11/2020 Location: SW VA/Frisco Total Posts: 3406 Experience: Date Posted: 8/27/2024 5:04 PM | |
Wasn't that the storm that made the new inlet which caused Hatteras to not have a road for a couple months. I think that's when the tinker toy bridge was put in hwy 12 below Pea Island which was done very quickly; however, no one could use the road for a short while until it was installed. | ||
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 By: ezbuckwheat | Posted By: ezbuckwheat - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/18/2021 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 952 Experience:  Date Posted: 8/27/2024 5:46 PM | |
Wasn't that the storm that made the new inlet which caused Hatteras to not have a road for a couple months.
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By: Squid Pro Quo | Posted By: Squid Pro Quo - (Send PM) Member Since: 7/21/2008 Location: Total Posts: 7496 Experience: Date Posted: 8/27/2024 5:48 PM | |
The other time in recent memory was the new inlet just east of Hatteras Village during Isabelle, 2003. That one was bigger and took a dredge in Hatteras Inlet to pump sand up there to fill it in. I fear it’s only a matter of time and that will happen again. | ||
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By: ezbuckwheat | Posted By: ezbuckwheat - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/18/2021 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 952 Experience: Date Posted: 8/27/2024 6:03 PM | |
A lot of good photos here. | ||
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 By: targadave | Posted By: targadave - (Send PM) Member Since: 2/19/2006 Location: KDH Total Posts: 2377 Experience: Date Posted: 8/28/2024 6:27 AM | |
First Hurricane we experienced as residents. Seems so long ago now. Our 13 yr old in the picture back then (FF middle schooler) is now a director at a digital marketing firm in Melbourne Australia My play job was kiteboard instructor at Kitty Hawk Kites in Rodanthe at the time. Hatteras Island turned into a basket case in the aftermath with only emergency ferry service while the temp New Inlet bridge was being built. One sad memory was the story of the owners of the sound side Mirlo Beach “Light house” home (far north end). As I vaguely remember with my now senile brain, the owners were in the house during the Hurricane. Their generator kicked in when the power went out, but the water rose so high that there were electrical shorts ocurring that sparked a full blown house fire. They barely escaped with their lives, wading/swimming to a neighboring house during the storm. The house completely burned. They never rebuilt and I heard they basically never returned. Just hearsay. It was an impressive house Click to follow link... | ||
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By: targadave | Posted By: targadave - (Send PM) Member Since: 2/19/2006 Location: KDH Total Posts: 2377 Experience: Date Posted: 8/28/2024 6:41 AM | |
Here is another unusual Irene pic. Only a crazy 20 something year old Real Watersports kiteboard instructor would do something like this 
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 By: OceanBlue | Posted By: OceanBlue - (Send PM) Member Since: 8/21/2010 Location: Total Posts: 2453 Experience: Date Posted: 8/28/2024 9:16 AM | |
Wasn't that the storm that made the new inlet which caused Hatteras to not have a road for a couple months. Yup, Hatteras was effectively cut off for 45 days. First "half" of the storm found zero, as far as the eye could see, water in the Pamlico. Then the eye...then woosh. The snap back was incredibly quick - a few cars still out there - when that wall of water inundated Rodanthe up to the dune line. | ||
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 By: Alexy | Posted By: Alexy - (Send PM) Member Since: 7/10/2008 Location: Warrenton VA and Frisco NC Total Posts: 8502 Experience: Date Posted: 8/28/2024 12:47 PM | |
Here are a few after Isabelle pics at the Hatteras Inlet. It is just south of where the parking lot on 12 south just below the Frisco park bath house.
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By: Alexy | Posted By: Alexy - (Send PM) Member Since: 7/10/2008 Location: Warrenton VA and Frisco NC Total Posts: 8502 Experience: Date Posted: 8/28/2024 12:51 PM | |
This house was located on Lighthouse row. It was knocked off it's foundations but a survey determined it was built 2 feet off the location it was supposed to be built on and the insurance company refused to pay anything. I know it was litigated but not aware of the outcome.
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By: Alexy | Posted By: Alexy - (Send PM) Member Since: 7/10/2008 Location: Warrenton VA and Frisco NC Total Posts: 8502 Experience: Date Posted: 8/28/2024 12:54 PM | |
What was left of the original Sandbar and Grill. The pool table slate is still in the sound behind this location as of 2024
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By: Alexy | Posted By: Alexy - (Send PM) Member Since: 7/10/2008 Location: Warrenton VA and Frisco NC Total Posts: 8502 Experience: Date Posted: 8/28/2024 12:57 PM | |
another view
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 By: KHbiker | Posted By: KHbiker - (Send PM) Member Since: 3/27/2011 Location: KH, NC Total Posts: 905 Experience: Date Posted: 8/28/2024 2:52 PM | |
Irene in 2011 was the biggest flooding event in 100 years. I live in KH landing and I had 3 feet of water in my garage. Isabel was in 2003 and caused the "Izzies inlet" in Hatteras village. | ||
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By: ezbuckwheat | Posted By: ezbuckwheat - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/18/2021 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 952 Experience: Date Posted: 8/28/2024 3:33 PM | |
Irene in 2011 was the biggest flooding event in 100 years. I live in KH landing and I had 3 feet of water in my garage.
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 By: johnbt | Posted By: johnbt - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/5/2019 Location: Richmond VA Total Posts: 654 Experience: Date Posted: 8/28/2024 4:13 PM | |
"Click to follow link" - "Per a 2013 Island Free Press article, the day before Isabel hit the Outer Banks, (September 17), the NOAA buoy at Diamond Shoals, about 15 miles off Cape Hatteras, was registering waves of 16 to 18 feet. By 9 p.m., the wave height was up to 21 feet. At 2 a.m. it was 27 feet, and then an hour later, at 3 a.m., the buoy registered a 44.6-foot wave and stopped reporting, likely due to heavy damage." | ||
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By: Squid Pro Quo | Posted By: Squid Pro Quo - (Send PM) Member Since: 7/21/2008 Location: Total Posts: 7496 Experience: Date Posted: 8/28/2024 4:26 PM | |
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin' "Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya" At 7 PM, a main hatchway caved in, he said "Fellas, it's been good to know ya" The captain wired in he had water comin' in And the good ship and crew was in peril And later that night when his lights went outta sight Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald | ||
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By: Squid Pro Quo | Posted By: Squid Pro Quo - (Send PM) Member Since: 7/21/2008 Location: Total Posts: 7496 Experience: Date Posted: 8/28/2024 4:28 PM | |
Sorry about making you sing Gordon Lightfoot, but on another calamity note for the island was when the ship hit the span! The dredge Northerly Island certainly stranded many folks on the island. Power and phone were cut off to Hatteras Island and Ocraco*ke Island for a long time. | ||
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By: ezbuckwheat | Posted By: ezbuckwheat - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/18/2021 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 952 Experience: Date Posted: 8/28/2024 5:39 PM | |
Irene in 2011 was the biggest flooding event in 100 years. I live in KH landing and I had 3 feet of water in my garage. This little high water mark tag is on a sign post at the public boat ramp on Bob Perry Rd. in Kitty Hawk. It’s a little over 4 feet above the ground and the ground elevation is about 4 feet. I don’t know anyone in Kitty Hawk now who remembers deeper flooding. Because of its track Irene was a sound event whereas Isabel, also because of its track, was an ocean event. They made landfall at almost the exact same spot, and both were only Cat 1 hurricanes at landfall.
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By: Bentmtn | Posted By: Bentmtn - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/11/2020 Location: SW VA/Frisco Total Posts: 3406 Experience: Date Posted: 8/28/2024 6:09 PM | |
I remember that hurricane and hubby went down via Wanchese to check out our property. Busy month of August dealing with flooding and an earthquake. We had just upgraded the kitchen and I was busy picking out counter tops that week from home thinking should I really order these? | ||
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By: ezbuckwheat | Posted By: ezbuckwheat - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/18/2021 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 952 Experience: Date Posted: 8/28/2024 7:25 PM | |
Irene in 2011 was the biggest flooding event in 100 years. I live in KH landing and I had 3 feet of water in my garage. My mistake. Isabel was a Cat 2 at landfall. | ||
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By: OceanBlue | Posted By: OceanBlue - (Send PM) Member Since: 8/21/2010 Location: Total Posts: 2453 Experience: Date Posted: 8/29/2024 9:39 AM | |
Here is another unusual Irene pic. Only a crazy 20 something year old Real Watersports kiteboard instructor would do something like this Not 'till now did I connect the dots that YOU took this pic. Didn't you also teach at KHK? | ||
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By: ezbuckwheat | Posted By: ezbuckwheat - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/18/2021 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 952 Experience: Date Posted: 8/29/2024 10:35 AM | |
While the discussion is on hurricanes and inlets, this is a 2017 article from Coastal Review. It is the story of the 1846 hurricane that created both Oregon Inlet and Hatteras Inlet. | ||
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 By: inthepink | Posted By: inthepink - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/15/2010 Location: MD & NC Total Posts: 639 Experience: Date Posted: 8/29/2024 11:24 AM | |
“One sad memory was the story of the owners of the sound side Mirlo Beach “Light house” home (far north end). As I vaguely remember with my now senile brain, the owners were in the house during the Hurricane. Their generator kicked in when the power went out, but the water rose so high that there were electrical shorts ocurring that sparked a full blown house fire. They barely escaped with their lives, wading/swimming to a neighboring house during the storm. The house completely burned. They never rebuilt and I heard they basically never returned. Just hearsay. It was an impressive house” Here is a really good account of what happened. I returned to Rodanthe on the emergency ferry from Stumpy Point with the folks from PA and they were traumatized. They stated they may never be able to stay in the cottage again. Our cottage had serious damage both from wind and the sound coming over from the west. Irene was nasty. The Meekins sold the lot and a new cottage has been built. I believe it’s for sale the last time I looked. Beautiful place! | ||
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