Riding out the hurricane may have been the easy part.
The storm surge that inundated Ocracoke was unprecedented and the cleanup is just beginning. This is an outstanding article New York Times article by Jack Healy with photographs by Scott McIntyre that’s worth reading.
“The baby was playing on the flooded floor again.
Jade Lopez scooped up her 11-month-old son, José, and wiped the long black bangs out of his eyes as he showed off a dirty plastic humidifier he had found. It had been just one day since Hurricane Dorian flooded the family’s trailer and gutted their taco shop, and already the stench of rot was creeping in.”
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