Powerful and dangerous Hurricane Matthew made landfall on southwestern Haiti this morning and is taking aim at western Cuba and the Bahamas before it is forecast to move up the southeast coast of the United States, coming near or just over the Outer Banks late Saturday or early Sunday. The message this morning from the […]
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The U.S. Coast Guard has taken over the search for a missing swimmer off the Salvo beach in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, according to the seashore’s chief ranger Boone Vandzura. Vandzura said a call came in at 10:06 this morning for a water rescue for a man drifting out into the ocean. The […]
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Hurricane Matthew, a powerhouse of a storm that has fluctuated from a Category 4 to Category 5 and back again in the past few days, is still forecast to make a turn and head north, threatening perhaps the entire East Coast later this week. However, its exact path and its impacts the on the Outer […]
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This week, I want to give a shout-out to my old friends, Dewey and Mary Parr, who today closed their “retirement dream,” a shop called the old Gray House in Buxton. It’s a sad time for Dewey and Mary and for all the many friends they have made in the past 25 years, but they […]
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Hurricane Matthew, which became a named storm just two days ago, unexpectedly strengthened overnight and is now a Category 3 cyclone with winds of 120 mph. According to the National Hurricane Center’s 2 p.m. advisory, Matthew was in the Caribbean, just 85 miles north of Columbia, South America, and was heading west-southwest at 12 mph. […]
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In a special meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 21, the Dare County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to join in a lawsuit against the state’s Marine Fisheries Commission over its use of a supplement process that plaintiffs say will drastically and unfairly reduce the commercial and recreational catch of southern flounder. The vote was 6-0. Commissioner […]
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This week’s blog is a big “thank you” card to Dare County’s Department of Public Works, which made really quick work of the debris left behind by Tropical Storm Hermine’s soundside flooding on Sept. 3. The storm surge was on the higher end of what the National Weather Service had forecast and what even many […]
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A survey of a half dozen Hatteras Island gas stations from Rodanthe to Hatteras village turned up a few owners who were concerned about deliveries but none who had run out of gas or were expecting to. Meanwhile, the good news for the station owners and the driving public is that the Colonial Pipeline Co. […]
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The week after Tropical Storm Hermine passed over the Outer Banks, two meteorologists from the National Weather Service Office in Newport/Morehead City, N.C., spent the better part of a day on Hatteras Island looking over the impacts from the high winds and the storm surge. During their day on the island, they sat down for […]
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Donna Elms, chairman of the Dare County Board of Elections, appeared before the Dare County Board of Commissioners at its meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 6, to explain the early voting schedule that the elections board approved late last month and sent on to the state for its approval. The Board of Elections has been criticized […]
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