Comments on: When will a Category Five Hurricane strike the Outer Banks?

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:32:11 +0000

Well Tina, you were smart to schedule your vacation there in July rather than around the Labor Day weekend because Earl’s a comin’. He’ll only give a glancing blow, but that would be enough to put a damper on a good vacation.

By: tina

tina — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:34:08 +0000

I hope they come up with that short circut before july cause thats when we will be headed there for 9 days!!

By: daisydolittle

daisydolittle — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:00:45 +0000

Yes, Love the Outer Banks, and they have been there a long time let’s remember. I know that the general feeling today is gloom & doom, but some of those houses are very old! We go there every year & love the feeling of one road and few people! Summers are too busy there , but Spring is great. It would be a real loss if they disappeared! I think the first colony ever created in America is located near there (Roanoke) (?) Lost Colony! Let’s have some faith people! Maybe someone will invent a way to short circuit Category 5′s.

By: John Keels

John Keels — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 19:33:22 +0000

I have been to the outer banks twice in recent years. It is interesting area that I like to visit but one very startling feature of the islands between Nags Head and Hatteras is one stretch of the highway where the island is so narrow that the right shoulder is practically sitting in the sound. To the left of the highway immediately are dunes which do not extend more than 30 or 40 yards at the most and then the beach. It seems that at narrow points like these, the islands would cease to exist if a Cat 5 hurricane made landfall in that area. I like to visit there but I wouldn’t want to be any where near the outer banks during a hurricane. Actually, I almost was when Floyd hit in 1999. I just barely got away from the area before the hurricane arrived.

By: Paul Bruder

Paul Bruder — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:48:38 +0000

I have a home in Corolla, NC, which is on the northern end of the Outer Banks, about 20 miles from the Virginia border and about 90 miles morth of Cape. Hatteras. We are about 400 yards from the beach and about 1000 yards from the Currituck Sound. Isabel in 2003, a Cat. 3, damaged only the door to the outdoor shower, although other homes in my development lost roof shingles. I’ve always felt that Corolla was more protected from a direct hit than Hatteras and the more southern areas based on the shape of the island and how the northen end is more tucked back toward the mainland and further away from the gulf stream. Am I way off? Should I be just as worried as anyone on Nags Head, Hatteras and Ocracoke?

By: Automatt

Automatt — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 09:22:23 +0000

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