Re: Hurricane Irene
 

Denny doesn't sound like much, tree's and power and thats about it and they have generators. I can't imagine it wasn't worse but apparenty not - Sundowners on Green turtle lost some deck and docks but were open on the weekend with generator. Some of the big Banyons bit the dust though

Re: Hurricane Irene
 

Justin reports: BEC has restored power to most of the island! There are a few houses with individual problems, overhead lines and so on, that are still out. BEC has moved on to MOW and will return after they have done what they can for the majority of people. It is a fantastic effort on their part. Land phones & DSL seem to still be out. Will probably take some work by BATELCO to sort things out. Work continues on the road in White Sound. It is still not passable. Rained most of today.. good for washing off the salt.
That was posted in the HopeTown Fire rescue page. I saw alot of pics from Elbow, it wasn't bad, saw some pics from Treasure, tree's down and such, haven't seen anything from GT, but heard they had some minor stuff. Nipper's and Pete's are just fine!! :cool:

Re: Hurricane Irene
 

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One of the new inlets on Hatteras Island.
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Where I launch my boat.
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Edenton waterfront. Tide is about 6" over land Sunday.
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My pile!
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My front yard after all the sweating. :cool:

Re: Hurricane Irene
 

Boo, glad you came through basically unscathed!! :cool:
Now go change that bent blade on the rider :eek: and
for gods sake man put up some of that fancy fencing
you sell... :D ;)

Lookin' good man!!

See ya, Ken

Oh yeah, looks like the pic was taken from a golf cart. :D

Re: Hurricane Irene
 

Thanks. No bent blade. It's the yard that's uneven. I just bought a Hustler ztr mower last week! Funny that I sell fence for a living, but, love my open yard. That pic was taken from my front porch. No golf cart yet, but, it's on the list. Trying to sell my daughter's 4-wheeler, (with her approval), and my old mower first.

Re: Hurricane Irene
 

The power came back on in Hatteras villiage today and some phone service. It will probably be a month before hwy 12 can be fixed. They are supposed to set up a ferry to bring supplies to those that are trapped. The towns north of us got the worst of the flooding on the island.

Re: Hurricane Irene
 

Which one is Uncle Boo inlet?

Auntie Paula lives in Wrightsville Bch. Glad all are well.

It`s a different story for some of my dear old friends in Vt.

Paul "Bakerman" has lost everything. He is a pastry chef and musician. 12 inches of rain in 7 hrs. Many roads there follow the rivers. It is killing me watching all of my old familliar places on the evening news.

The bridge over Quechee Gorge is 163 ft. off the water. Ziggy said the water was over old growth trees.

Simon Pearce is underwater. Stevo`s houses are all flooded.

Saying Vermont and hurricane damage in the same sentence is strange indeed. Four old covered bridges gone. Many other bridges gone. Every dirt road is rough, and there are many.

Here`s the gorge.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lSg9S5o7CM

Leonard`s lp gas co. lost some tanks that went boom on the rocks.

It`s a long walk to a store down by a river in many places.

GFS

Re: Hurricane Irene
 

That's for sure. Vermont hasn't seen flooding like this since 1927. This is about five miles upstream on the same river that runs through my sister's property. When we were there in July, we crossed the river on four wheelers without getting our feet wet. Over the weekend, it was running 10' deep and forty mph.

Re: Hurricane Irene
 

This is heartbreaking. I sit here watching the news and where are they? Woodstock, Vt. Jeffrey, the owner of a local shop was staring back at me.

Re: Hurricane Irene
 

I was at my cuz's place (no-bones) for the week, had to cut it short and fly back to cow-hampshire for the storm..we had 3 hrs of heavy rain and wind then calm till 11pm when the second round of winds kicked up. Been on generator for 4 days now and never lost cable go figure. no water or tree damage on the compound..