Nasty Irene! | OBX Connection Message Board (2024)

Date Posted: 8/27/2024 4:52 PM

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Date Posted: 8/27/2024 5:04 PM

Wasn't that the storm that made the new inlet which caused Hatteras to not have a road for a couple months.

I think that's when the tinker toy bridge was put in hwy 12 below Pea Island which was done very quickly; however, no one could use the road for a short while until it was installed.

Date Posted: 8/27/2024 5:46 PM

Wasn't that the storm that made the new inlet which caused Hatteras to not have a road for a couple months.

I think that's when the tinker toy bridge was put in hwy 12 below Pea Island which was done very quickly; however, no one could use the road for a short while until it was installed.

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Date Posted: 8/28/2024 6:27 AM

My play job was kiteboard instructor at Kitty Hawk Kites in Rodanthe at the time. Hatteras Island turned into a basket case in the aftermath with only emergency ferry service while the temp New Inlet bridge was being built.

One sad memory was the story of the owners of the sound side Mirlo Beach “Light house” home (far north end). As I vaguely remember with my now senile brain, the owners were in the house during the Hurricane. Their generator kicked in when the power went out, but the water rose so high that there were electrical shorts ocurring that sparked a full blown house fire. They barely escaped with their lives, wading/swimming to a neighboring house during the storm. The house completely burned. They never rebuilt and I heard they basically never returned. Just hearsay. It was an impressive house

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Date Posted: 8/28/2024 6:41 AM

Date Posted: 8/28/2024 9:16 AM

Wasn't that the storm that made the new inlet which caused Hatteras to not have a road for a couple months.

Yup, Hatteras was effectively cut off for 45 days. First "half" of the storm found zero, as far as the eye could see, water in the Pamlico. Then the eye...then woosh. The snap back was incredibly quick - a few cars still out there - when that wall of water inundated Rodanthe up to the dune line.

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Date Posted: 8/28/2024 2:52 PM

Isabel was in 2003 and caused the "Izzies inlet" in Hatteras village.

Date Posted: 8/28/2024 3:33 PM

Irene in 2011 was the biggest flooding event in 100 years. I live in KH landing and I had 3 feet of water in my garage.

Isabel was in 2003 and caused the "Izzies inlet" in Hatteras village.

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Date Posted: 8/28/2024 4:13 PM

"Per a 2013 Island Free Press article, the day before Isabel hit the Outer Banks, (September 17), the NOAA buoy at Diamond Shoals, about 15 miles off Cape Hatteras, was registering waves of 16 to 18 feet. By 9 p.m., the wave height was up to 21 feet. At 2 a.m. it was 27 feet, and then an hour later, at 3 a.m., the buoy registered a 44.6-foot wave and stopped reporting, likely due to heavy damage."

Date Posted: 8/28/2024 4:26 PM

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Date Posted: 8/28/2024 5:39 PM

Irene in 2011 was the biggest flooding event in 100 years. I live in KH landing and I had 3 feet of water in my garage.

Isabel was in 2003 and caused the "Izzies inlet" in Hatteras village.

This little high water mark tag is on a sign post at the public boat ramp on Bob Perry Rd. in Kitty Hawk. It’s a little over 4 feet above the ground and the ground elevation is about 4 feet. I don’t know anyone in Kitty Hawk now who remembers deeper flooding.

Because of its track Irene was a sound event whereas Isabel, also because of its track, was an ocean event. They made landfall at almost the exact same spot, and both were only Cat 1 hurricanes at landfall.

Date Posted: 8/28/2024 6:09 PM

Date Posted: 8/28/2024 7:25 PM

Irene in 2011 was the biggest flooding event in 100 years. I live in KH landing and I had 3 feet of water in my garage.

Isabel was in 2003 and caused the "Izzies inlet" in Hatteras village.

This little high water mark tag is on a sign post at the public boat ramp on Bob Perry Rd. in Kitty Hawk. It’s a little over 4 feet above the ground and the ground elevation is about 4 feet. I don’t know anyone in Kitty Hawk now who remembers deeper flooding.

Because of its track Irene was a sound event whereas Isabel, also because of its track, was an ocean event. They made landfall at almost the exact same spot, and both were only Cat 1 hurricanes at landfall.

My mistake. Isabel was a Cat 2 at landfall.

Date Posted: 8/29/2024 9:39 AM

Here is another unusual Irene pic. Only a crazy 20 something year old Real Watersports kiteboard instructor would do something like this

Not 'till now did I connect the dots that YOU took this pic. Didn't you also teach at KHK?

Date Posted: 8/29/2024 10:35 AM

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Date Posted: 8/29/2024 11:24 AM

“One sad memory was the story of the owners of the sound side Mirlo Beach “Light house” home (far north end). As I vaguely remember with my now senile brain, the owners were in the house during the Hurricane. Their generator kicked in when the power went out, but the water rose so high that there were electrical shorts ocurring that sparked a full blown house fire. They barely escaped with their lives, wading/swimming to a neighboring house during the storm. The house completely burned. They never rebuilt and I heard they basically never returned. Just hearsay. It was an impressive house”

Here is a really good account of what happened. I returned to Rodanthe on the emergency ferry from Stumpy Point with the folks from PA and they were traumatized. They stated they may never be able to stay in the cottage again. Our cottage had serious damage both from wind and the sound coming over from the west. Irene was nasty.

The Meekins sold the lot and a new cottage has been built. I believe it’s for sale the last time I looked. Beautiful place!

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