This has to be a first, a hurricane that forces an evacuation and we get ZERO rain from it. That is unheard of by me for the past 31 years I have been here or owned here. We need rain badly!

That's the way I recall the Halloween storm of 1991. We spent the week oceanfront in KDH. We got away with ignoring the evacuation order for "...everyone east of the Bypass in Kill Devil Hills."

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"While the Outer Banks experienced sunny skies and seasonable temperatures, the storm produced 10 to 12 foot surf that lasted four days and eight high tide cycles, on top of a 3.93 foot storm surge measured at Cape Hatteras on Nov. 1.

Overwash flooded the Beach Road from Kitty Hawk to Nags Head and all the way up to U.S. 158 in a number of spots. More than a dozen breeches of the dunes in Cape Hatteras National Seashore were cut.

Along with the water, up to four feet of sand covered N.C. 12 on Hatteras Island in multiple locations between Oregon Inlet and Buxton.

Evacuations were ordered on Halloween morning for all of South Nags Head and everyone east of the Bypass in Kill Devil Hills.

Travel across the Wright Memorial and Washington Baum bridges was restricted to just Dare and Currituck residents for several days, while N.C. 12 was closed to all traffic south of Whalebone Junction."

Pic caption: "Kitty Hawk bathouse (left) and the Black Pelican Restaurant (right) during the height of flooding during the Halloween Storm of 1991. [courtesy Village Realty]"

I remember that storm, we had just built the house in KDH on the beach road. We built in May 91 and it was rented until Sept when we finally got to stay in it. That storm was called the Perfect Storm and they made a movie about the fishing boat that was lost. This is the view from my deck looking at the destroyed Bel Air motel.

This has to be a first, a hurricane that forces an evacuation and we get ZERO rain from it. That is unheard of by me for the past 31 years I have been here or owned here. We need rain badly!

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To paraphrase a classic movie line... "For what we are about to receive, oh Lord, we thank Thee..."
Could've been a lot worse..... NCDOT has the most problems... the gov't planners got a "Drill" for their storm managemment systems...

Now we can watch for what's next of Africa's gifts to the world...

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