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Fran caused coastal damage from the South Carolina border to Topsail Island, North Carolina. Its 12-foot storm surge carried away a temporary North Topsail Beach police station and town hall, housed in a double-wide trailer since Hurricane Bertha's rampage across the same area in July. The Kure Beach Pier was destroyed during the storm as well.
The storm surge produces a 2,000-foot (600 m) wide inlet on Hatteras Island, isolating Hatteras by road for two months. [18] August 3, 2004 – Hurricane Alex brushes the Outer Banks, producing strong waves and moderate storm surge flooding; one person is killed from the surf, and hundreds of vehicles and homes are flooded. [19]
Topsail Island (/ ˈ t ɑː p s ɪ l /, TOP-sill) is a 26-mile (41.8 km) long barrier island off the coast of North Carolina, roughly equidistant between the barrier islands of the Crystal Coast and the beaches of the Cape Fear region, lying south of Jacksonville, North Carolina and Camp Lejeune.
North Carolina has given North Topsail Beach $10 million to help stabilize and rebuild its eroded beach. But is this money well spent? North Topsail is getting millions for beach nourishment.
In the 1916 season, five storms affected the state, which was the season with the most storms devastating the state. The strongest hurricanes to affect the state during the time period were the 1933 Outer Banks hurricane and the 1944 Great Atlantic Hurricane , which produced winds of Category 3 status on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale ...
Here is a look at some of the storm's damage in Vero Beach, Orchid Island and nearby communities. Vero Beach storm damage Some of the storm debris I’m now seeing as the sunrises in Vero Beach ...
Six months ago the N.C. Coastal Land Trust began a fundraising campaign to raise $8 million to buy a 150-acre tract in Pender County.
July 12, 1996 – Hurricane Bertha makes landfall near Wilmington, destroying hundreds of structures and damaging thousands more, mostly from storm surge. Damage amounts to over $250 million (1996 USD, $325 million 2007 USD), about half of which from crop damage, and there is each one direct and one indirect death in the state. [42] [43]