Downed trees, power outage, but nothing major.
North of Oregon Inlet on the Outer Banks, Hurricane Dorian’s impacts were apparent but not nothing compared to what Hatteras Island and Ocracoke experienced. Writing for the Outer Banks Voice, Kip Tabb takes a first look at the northern Outer Banks.
“After 10 or 12 hours of steady rain, wind and debris beating against the house, a certain amount of cabin fever sets in. On the fringe of a hurricane, where the winds never quite get to 75 or 80 miles per hour and the storm surge never gets to the house, as soon as the winds fall below 25 mph and the rains let up a bit, there is almost a need to be outside.
Stepping outside it’s an odd landscape. Lawns are almost obscured by branches that have been ripped from trees. Trees have toppled, the shards of their trunks looking like nothing so much as giant toothpicks.”
