dorian cost ferry division $4+ million

As one ferry leaves another arrives at Ocracoke in November. View from the Hatteras Ferry getting ready to enter Silver Lake as Cedar Island ferry leaves.
As one ferry leaves another arrives at Ocracoke in November. View from the Hatteras Ferry getting ready to enter Silver Lake as Cedar Island ferry leaves.

Price includes repairs and Hatteras route

Thankfully Hurricane Dorian is in our review mirror, but the costs are extraordinary. Kirk Ross, writing for the Coastal Review Online, does a great job of explaining how much the exceptional work the NC Ferry Division did in helping Ocracoke cost.

As one ferry leaves another arrives at Ocracoke in November. View from the Hatteras Ferry getting ready to enter Silver Lake as Cedar Island ferry leaves.
As one ferry leaves another arrives at Ocracoke in November. View from the Hatteras Ferry getting ready to enter Silver Lake as Cedar Island ferry leaves.

“Ferry service employees had to work quickly after Hurricane Dorian to adapt in order to keep the response moving to a devastated Ocracoke Village, North Carolina Department of Transportation officials told a legislative panel last week.

The House Transportation Oversight Committee met Thursday to hear an update on the NCDOT Ferry Division’s hurricane response as part of an overall departmental review going into this year’s short session of the legislature.”

To read the complete Coastal Review Online story, click here.