On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 21:23:13 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

most people in NC don't leave for a Cat 1..3. A Cat 4+ is another
animal altogether... as I, personally, learned with Hazel and Camille!


Another veteran of Hazel!

The eye passed over my house twice.

Then came Donna.
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It looks like North Carolina did a better job preparing for a Cat. 1


Possibly so.

Gene Kearns wrote:
There is one "Hell" of a difference between a Cat 1 and Cat 2.... and
even more (geometrically) between other "cats."


Yep, while we have had hurricanes that swept houses off a beach where
they should never have been built in the first place, we have NOT had
hurricanes that lifted interstate highway bridges off their foundations.



most people in NC don't leave for a Cat 1..3. A Cat 4+ is another
animal altogether... as I, personally, learned with Hazel and Camille!y so.

Locally, we did *nothing* to prepare for a Cat 1 other than look for
the rakes to clean the yard. North of us... well, due to the (slow)
speed of the storm, they lost lots of beach. Nothing to do, but
watch.

Mother Nature reigns supreme.


I bet there were emergency resources mobilized in your area. I know
there were in the New Bern area, which also was not very hard hit.
Swansboro looked pretty bad; and I wouldn't have wanted to be anchored
out in Lookout Bight for that million dollars!

Didja hear about the couple anchored in Mile Hammock Bay (ICW near
Swansboro) in a 25' sailboat?

Fair Skies
Doug King

DSK wrote:

Didja hear about the couple anchored in Mile Hammock Bay (ICW near
Swansboro) in a 25' sailboat?


Nope - details please. This is my neck of the boating woods, but I
haven't been down since the storm. Relatives on Bogue Banks say the
sound side was hit hard.

Lars

Didja hear about the couple anchored in Mile Hammock Bay (ICW near
Swansboro) in a 25' sailboat?


lars wrote:
Nope - details please. This is my neck of the boating woods, but I
haven't been down since the storm. Relatives on Bogue Banks say the
sound side was hit hard.


I only heard a brief news report, that the boat dragged ashore, the
people were fine, the Marine Corps used a truck to put the boat back in
the water for them. I was hoping somebody else would have more details.

It couldn't have been hit too hard, the vacation rentals are open at
Emerald Isle this week.

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