Irene Makes Landfall, Crushes Two North Carolina Piers
- Posted on August 27, 2011 at 9:32am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Resident Tony Silverthorne, who chose not to evacuate, has his drink in the wind and rain at Avalon Pier in Kill Devil Hills, N.C., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, as Hurricane Irene reaches the North Carolina coast. Irene slammed into North Carolina's coast around dawn Saturday with howling winds and drenching rains amid reports of flooding and tens of thousands of people without power. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. (AP) — Hurricane-force winds and drenching rains from Irene battered the North Carolina coast early Saturday as the storm began its potentially catastrophic run up the Eastern Seaboard. More than 2 million people were told to move to safer places, and New York City ordered the nation’s biggest subway system shut down for the first time because of a natural disaster.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Irene’s maximum sustained winds were around 85 mph on Saturday morning, down from about 100 mph a day earlier. But they warned the hurricane would remain a large and powerful one throughout the day as it trekked toward the mid-Atlantic.
“The hazards are still the same,” NHC hurricane specialist Mike Brennan said. “The emphasis for this storm is on its size and duration, not necessarily how strong the strongest winds are.”
Hurricane-force winds first arrived near Jacksonville, N.C., around 6:15 a.m. A little more than an hour later, the storm‘s center passed near the southern tip of North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The eye of the storm is typically calm, but the storm’s wind and rain are far from over. Forecasters said the landfall has little significance, as Irene remains a dangerous storm.
Just after daybreak in Nags Head on the Outer Banks, about 200 miles northeast of Jacksonville, winds whipped heavy rain across the resort town. Tall waves covered what had been the beach, and the surf pushed as high as the backs of some of the houses and hotels fronting the strand. Lights flickered in one hotel, but the power was still on.
As the storm’s outer bands of wind and rain lashed the North Carolina coast, knocking out power in places, authorities farther north begged people to get out of harm’s way. Officials in the northeast, not used to tropical weather, feared it could wreak devastation.
“Don’t wait. Don’t delay,” said President Barack Obama, who decided to cut short his summer vacation by a day and return to Washington. “I cannot stress this highly enough: If you are in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now.”
Obama so far had declared emergencies for North Carolina, Virginia, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
The storm‘s center was about 5 miles north of Cape Lookout on North Carolina’s Outer Banks early Saturday and lumbering north-northeastward at 14 mph.
Wind and rain knocked out power to more than 210,000 customers along the North Carolina coast, including a hospital in Morehead City. A woman who answered the phone there said the hospital was running on generators.
Residents along the Outer Banks said there wasn’t serious damage yet. Alan Sutton, who owns a bait and tackle shop on Ocracoke Island, said he saw only a few limbs down as of 8 a.m., though he had not yet been outside. He hoped to head outside around lunchtime to assess the damage.
“Right now, we do not see any flooding,” he said. “However, that could easily change when we get past the eye. A lot of water is pushed up in the sound, and we have to wait and see how that water comes back out.”
However, officials already had started rescuing some people from homes as a precaution in Craven County, in case there was a sudden rise in water levels. Stanley Kite, the county’s emergency services director, said about 2 feet of water pushed from Pamlico Sound into the Neuse River and was spreading into neighborhoods Saturday morning. Kite said the water was still rising. Carteret County spokeswoman Jo Ann Smith said the Bouge Sound was sending a few feet of water onto roads and into homes at Salter Path.
A coastal town official in North Carolina said witnesses believed a tornado spawned by Irene lifted the roof off the warehouse of a car dealership in Belhaven on Friday night and damaged a mobile home, an outbuilding and trees. At least two piers on the Outer Banks were wiped out.
Forecasters said the core of Irene would roll up the mid-Atlantic coast Saturday night and over southern New England on Sunday.
Hurricane warnings were issued from North Carolina to New York and farther north to the islands of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard off Massachusetts. Evacuation orders covered at least 2.3 million people, including 1 million in New Jersey, 315,000 in Maryland, 300,000 in North Carolina, 200,000 in Virginia and 100,000 in Delaware. Officials and experts said it was likely the largest number of people ever threatened by a single hurricane in the U.S.
U.S. airlines canceled at least 6,100 flights through Monday, grounding hundreds of thousands of passengers as the storm could strike major airports from Washington to Boston.
New York City ordered more than 300,000 people who live in flood-prone areas to leave, including Battery Park City at the southern tip of Manhattan, Coney Island and the beachfront Rockaways. But it was not clear how many would do it, how they would get out or where they would go. Most New Yorkers don’t have a car.
The city said it would shut down the subways and buses at noon Saturday, only a few hours after the first rain is expected to fall. The transit system carries about 5 million people on an average weekday, fewer on weekends. It has been shut down several times before, including during a transit workers’ strike in 2005 and after the Sept. 11 attacks a decade ago, but never for weather.
Aviation officials said they would close the five main New York City-area airports to arriving domestic and international flights beginning at noon on Saturday. Many departures also were canceled.
The airports are John F. Kennedy International, Newark Liberty International, LaGuardia, Stewart International and Teterboro.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said there was little authorities could do to force people to leave and warned: “But if you don’t follow this, people may die.”
Transit systems in New Jersey and Philadelphia also announced plans to shut down, and Washington declared a state of emergency.
After the Outer Banks, the next target for Irene was the Hampton Roads region of southeast Virginia, a jagged network of inlets and rivers that floods easily. Emergency officials have said the region is more threatened by storm surge, the high waves that accompany a storm, than wind. Gas stations there were low on fuel Friday, and grocery stores scrambled to keep water and bread on the shelves.
In Delaware, Gov. Jack Markell ordered an evacuation of coastal areas on the peninsula the state shares with Maryland and Virginia.
In Baltimore’s Fells Point neighborhood, one of the city’s oldest waterfront neighborhoods, people filled sandbags and placed them at the entrances to buildings. A few miles away at the Port of Baltimore, vehicles and cranes continued to unload huge cargo ships that were rushing to offload and get away from the storm.
Residents also were ordered to evacuate in Ocean City, Md. A steady rain fell Saturday morning on the city’s boardwalk. A small amusement park was shut down and darkened, including a ride called the “hurricane.” Businesses were boarded up, many painted with messages like “Irene don’t be mean!”
Charlie Koetzle, 55, an Ocean City resident for the past decade, had come down to the boardwalk dressed in swim trunks and flip-flops to look at the ocean. While his neighbors and most everyone else had evacuated, Koetzle said he told authorities he wasn’t leaving.
Koetzle said he was watching the weather channel and had stocked up on items to ride out the storm: soda, roast beef, peanut butter, tuna and nine packs of cigarettes. He also had a detective novel at the ready.
He said of the storm: “I always wanted to see one.”
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Comments (90)
Justgivemeliberty
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 12:45pm“Obama so far had declared emergencies for North Carolina, Virginia, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts.”
Seriously? Last I checked the president doesn’t declare emergencies for anyone. Isn’t that up the the Governors?
Report Post »conservativeagent
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 12:56pmI believe that the prez has to officially declare so that federal aid can be given out.
Report Post »Nunya Biz
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 2:16pmGovenors can declare states of emergency as they see fit (including to order curfews), however, the president must declare a state a federal disaster area in order to receive federals funds for either IA (Individual Assistance) or PA (Public Assistance meaning infrastructure). Now how the prez made a declaration prior to (1) the disaster actually haven taken place (how do you know what type of assistance or how much if you don’t know the extent of the damages, which you cannot know until afterwards), (2) the govenors requesting the assistance (that is one of the requirements), and (3) reviewing each state‘s ’books’ to see if they will/do even need the assistance in the first place! (States that request assistance have to show that the cost of the damages exceeds tehir ability to handle it financially on the state level.)
Report Post »jfry85
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 2:51pmare you seriously arguing about Obama declaring emergencies for the Hurricane. You‘ll blame him for anything won’t you?
Report Post »Justgivemeliberty
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 4:01pmTo JFRY85, I wasn’t blaming Obama for anything. I am actually quite impressed that he is cutting his vacation 12 hours short to take care of hurricane business. I was just pointing out that AP is giving credit to Obama for being out in front of this when it was actually the mostly Republican Governors that were in front for preemptively declaring states of emergency to get the ball rolling sooner rather than later.
Report Post »Justgivemeliberty
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 4:12pmI stand corrected on the mostly Republican Governor part of my post. The facts are 4 Democrat and 3 Republican Governors.
Report Post »swampbuck
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 4:18pmNo It’s up the King….
Report Post »zoose
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 4:41pmIrene limped to shore.
Report Post »It will be a rain storm by morning.
rangerp
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 4:49pmThese things turn into such a big joke anymore, with two sides sitting back, wanting to make comparisons, that just do not compare.
With Katrina, the state governor and local mayor failed to act properly. Libs sat back and blamed Bush. It was if Bush called up the storm, then had Chenney go down and blow up the levies. When the storm passed, the President did what a President can do, he called in FEMA, and troops went down and supported.
Now folks are looking at Obama. The right wants to point fingers, and say he did not handle the situtation well. Libs want to pat him on the back, and say he did better than Bush.
The two storms are very differnet in nature, are hitting completely different areas. Stop the big comparison, it is futile.
Pray for those in its path, and now emergency crews at the state and local level will perform like professionals. Obama is not going to call of the storm, and Bush did not cause it,.
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 7:58pmLiving in Florida and the South Pacific most of my life I know first hand the devastation and terror hurricanes and typhoons can cause. I pray their will be no deaths we know there will be structural and land damage … but hopefully people will head the warnings… they had plenty of time to leave.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 8:01amThe days of Governors being responsible are SOOOOoooo pre-Bush.
This is a new regime.
Now, the President takes it upon himself. After all, in a nanny-state he is your daddy-figure, isn’t he?
What a joke.
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Truth be told, Old Blamer’s advisors told him to do this to preempt any critics should the storm turn into a Katrina.
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dreardon31
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 12:42pmI can’t believe it! They closed schools in NH! I thought I moved to this state to get away from the wussies.
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:33pmYou chose NH to get away from wussies??? Texans are ROTFL!
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 2:35pmDon’t believe anything that comes from government. These people are liars, and everything that comes out of their mouths is political. There is an effective underground out there, you just won’t see it on cable.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 4:02pmCome on DrPhil
Report Post »There are real men and wussies in every state in the union. Enough of the only Texans “get it” crap. I guarantee you there are guys in NH that would kick your ***** up the street and back and make you cry like a girl having a baby. So STFU. By the way I am in Missouri in case you want to know.
swampbuck
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 4:19pmlmao
Report Post »conservativeagent
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 12:21pmYou have got to be kidding. Nothing but Irene coverage on TV. If you really wanted to see devastation after a storm one should have seen the damage caused by Katrina ( and I don’t mean just N.O.), Rita, or even Ike. Each on of those wiped complete communities off the map. Even as those were getting ready to hit we at least got some other news, but I guess since the area’s being affected by the storm are where the big NEWS companies are, that‘s all we’ll get for a week.
Report Post »gopack
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 12:16pmOne of the big issues is for outer banks residents is dealing with the sound and the ocean-not to mention the storm has been battering the N.C. coastline for about 24 hours now. Wonder how the wild horses are fairing?
Report Post »outsidethebox
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 12:13pmHuh, huh, huh, MoreHEAD City. Huh, huh, huh.
Report Post »conservativeagent
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 12:24pmLOL, If you believe Sinclair you would think Obummer would be spending a lot of time there.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 11:58amTwo piers, two piers are damaged… oh please.. get a grip on the east coast. Out here in Colorado, we can have the Chinook winds gust up to 50 to 60 mph on a clear day and you don’t see us get all hyped up. We just batten up the hatches and ride it out.
Report Post »Jezcruzen
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 12:20pmIts not the wind, idiot. Its the storm surge. How much storm surge have you experienced in CO?
Report Post »Boss2517
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 12:37pmI have to agree. They have blown this way out of proportion. Here on the coast of Texas we would be icing down the beer.
Report Post »Schteveo
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 12:50pmWhat’s been blown out of proportion is the effect this will have on NYC.
The damned storm will impact twice the population of NYC long BEFORE it gets there. AND it will lose some of it’s strength before it gets up there.
Losing two piers means loss of jobs AND tourist income. It’s like one of the ski slopes closing because of downed ski lift. To rebuild will cost he owner money because insurance companies will NOT sell them storm insurance.
Report Post »conservativeagent
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:12pmExactly Boss, as well as firin’ up the PIT!
Report Post »conservativeagent
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:16pm??Schteveo, loss of jobs for 2 piers? They have to hire someone to rebuild the piers, so it’s a job creator that Obummer will take credit for!
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 11:55amMaybe they should have named the hurricane… Maxine for Maxine Waters, since the damage is going to be over-hyped and she is full of hot air.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 11:54amand at least two have died so far. Beck’s “blessing” has begun.
Report Post »fatjack
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 3:33pmWhat’s your problem today, you have a hang nail?
Report Post »NotPoliticallyCorrect
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 11:49amYou watch, this’ll be the part where Obama single-handedly “quells the storm”.
Report Post »Glenn in Virginia
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 12:41pmI believe that‘s Pat Robertson’s job.
Report Post »conservativeagent
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 11:49amIt’s the guy in pic the guy who sometimes fills in for RUSH? lol
Report Post »dreardon31
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 11:38amIs there such a category called “H”? Category Hype
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 11:25amI knew the whole storm was over-hyped by a lying media.That is why I was so sarcastic about the outcome. That fact that a Cat3 storm would make it all the way to New York and do this “great amount of damage” is almost impossible. By the time it gets to Lib York…it will be thunder storms. The media hyped the storm like it hyped obama. Both are duds.
Report Post »Pelling1020
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 11:38amA friggen men !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »gemologist
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 11:21amThe story should be
Report Post »“As Irene touches land, Journalists desperate to show damage”
pschlentz
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 11:25amExactly, kinda sad…
Report Post »Boss2517
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 12:47pmExactly. After Hurricane Katrina had hit we had another storm headed for a direct hit on the Houston/Galveston area(OMG a house is losing shingles) sorry the news was just showing that. Anyway back to the Hype, Rita had caused only 7 direct deaths due to the storm, the other 113 were mostly during the evacuation of an estimated 3mil people.I remember a news station showing a 15ft sign that had been damaged. Granted if you live directly in the path on the coast of a cat 2 or higher storm, get out.
Report Post »joehanx2
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 11:18amall that beach erosion better not be filled back in by the govmnt with my taxes only fools build in flood plains and beaches
Report Post »conservativeagent
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 12:42pmExactly, but as usual we the taxpayers will dish out more to help rebuild fools lives. Unfortunately they don’t have rules to protect us from morons who build homes & businesses in vulnerable spots like this.
Report Post »mwhaley
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 11:16amOne reporter stated this was “the storm of the century”, “the storm of our lifetime”. What a moron!
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 10:56amFear mongered by the Left….Irene is a dud!
Report Post »psst
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 10:28amThere will be some piers knocked down. flooding, a few tornadoes,beaches eroded, but it’s only a Cat 1 hurricane. it could have come ashore as a cat 3 or 4.
Report Post »US Gulf coast folks watches and see all this panic about a cat 1 storm.
It’s gonna be Ok. I hope all you N. Eastern folks fares well.
Good luck.God Bless.
Bret
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 10:24amOMG! That guy should be arrested! How dare he not OBEY this hoax!!!
Report Post »Nunya Biz
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 2:20pmlol omg LOVE IT
Report Post »Caerus
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 10:18amYawn. Overhyped.
“OMG biggest, most horriblest, gigantocious storm in the history of mankind heading for NYC!!1!1!!!”
I understand, the media needs interesting stories to stay afloat. Acting like Irene is the worst thing that could possibly happen is a huge overreaction. As a Floridian, if it was hitting us, it would be in the news, but not THE only news. Just because of NYC, it is getting a ton of coverage.
I, for one, am much more worried about all the horse farms in NC, rather than the buildings in NYC.
Report Post »SFsuper49er
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 10:31amI think so too…
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 11:04amYeah, but NYC is jam-pack full of Obamabots. Texas can go up in flames but don’t mess with NYC.
Report Post »Banned on the Blaze
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 10:12amCan someone tell me where the storm is? I need an update, is the storm here yet? Is the west coast alright? Has the storm hit Las Vegas yet? Have the people in New Orleans been evacuated yet? How come there is no breaking new on the tv?
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 10:03amWow, just read the whole article. Didn‘t stop to think that most New Yorkers don’t own a car, but it makes sense. I bet parking is a premium. Hope they get out. I wouldn’t want even liberals to get hurt.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 10:06amIndeed, this has the potential to be a true disaster indeed. I pray to God that He protects the city and the people there.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:01pmAccording to Glenn, this is his God’s little reminder to us.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 9:59amI had to look it up, because I didn’t remember the name, only the year and where, but when I was in A-school with the navy, in Norfolk, VA, Hurricane Josephine hit. I remember the panic, and I’d never been in a hurricane. Everyone was boarding up windows, laying in supplies, etc. We got a bad storm, is what I thought. There was flooding like I’d not seen before. I suppose the drainage system couldn’t handle it. I was one of the few in my class with a car, and had to drive through puddles as high as my little Chevette’s headlights. Of course, it didn’t actually HIT the coast. I pray this one either goes out to sea, or piddles out. Hurricane Emily hit Bermuda in 1987, another one I had to look up, because it’s been a long time. I was out in that one before it was actually over because I was command photographer and had to take pictures of the damage. The road off the base was blocked with fallen trees and we had to be there 24 hours. Hurricane Dean hit Bermuda in 1989, and was nothing, must have been a level 0 or downgraded to a tropical storm. I actually prefer hurricanes to tornadoes (of which I’ve been in 2 level 0 or 1)…in a hurricane, the wind blows really strong from one direction, then it’s quiet as the eye passes over, then it blows really hard in the other direction. Tornadoes are totally unpredictable.
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 10:23amJust moved to Florida from Virginia Beach. Have a big storage unit there with 95% of my wordly possessions in it. Been trying to call the storage office… NOANS…. I‘m assuming they’ve run for the hills, lol. Most Insurance companys won‘t continue your homeowner’s/ renter’s insurance when you move all your stuff into storage for more than 30 days. Funny thing is, never thought my stuff would get damaged from a storm in VA while I‘m in the hurricaine capital of the US where it’s dry and sunny right now., lol.
Norfolk has horrible drainage… was always flooded out after most regular rain storms, let alone a hurricaine drencher like this.
Report Post »DanWesson455
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 9:57amIt’s good for the flowers and the ducks. Not so good for fools who stay in place.
Report Post »pattybbb1
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 10:06amPraying for the folks in this storm. It’s gonna be a mess.
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 9:52amWonder what Bubba‘ be drinkin’ there in that thar cup? The next pic we see of him will be with a pier railing up his wazoo…
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 9:57amHe is drinkibg Obama Koolaid. He thinks the economt will be all right too. I hope he stays, we can thin the herd of stupid people…
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 10:11amLol.
Report Post »Brents Torts
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 10:22am******
Report Post »Bret
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 10:32amYeah buddy, make fun of him. He must be stupid because only smart Americans obey Government. The “Government” had a hundred years to reinforce piers and prepare for a known event. This was just a test of the fear-based-control-system… We survived the hundred year storms with out Presidential speeches in the past. They just found out they can get two million people to leave their homes over the threat of some wind and rain… Silly, scared people…
Report Post »Bret
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 10:37amHe must be dumb, he didn’t buy the hoax like you guys… Yeah buddy, lets “thin the herd” based on looks. Your herd mentality and violent implications expose your liberal troll self…
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 11:01amLmao. “[We] survived the hundred year storms with out Presidential speeches in the past.”
So tell me Mr Nagan., er Bret.. how did that work out fer ya’ down thar in Narleans?
Report Post »Czar Casm
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 12:32pm“Narleans” is still there. And there will be another flood. And they will still be there (because you have to be there for the prime looting period don’t you know) and it will still be somebody else’s fault.
Report Post »Boss2517
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:05pm@yepimaconservative comparing Katrina to Irene is just plain ignorant. There is a time to leave and a time to stay. If you are on the coast in the direct path of a cat2 or higher you need to leave. Look at Hurricane Rita( a much larger storm) 3mil people evacuated the Houston/Galveston area. Seven deaths were a direct cause of the storm. Most of the other 113 were do to the evacuation. Hurricane Ike hit us in 2008. I live in the northern burbs of Houston. We stayed and while it was not fun we had minimal damage. I would probably leave if we have another of that strength but a cat 1 no way.As for Katrina, my wife is from NOLA, and they have been saying for years that the levees would fail. NO made it fine through the hurricane, it was the failing of the levees that caused the most damage. That and the failure of the local and state governments.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 9:41amHey New Orleans.
See how it is done where people take care of themselves? Do us all a favor , go up on your roofs again and beg for help. Maybe more food stamps., school buses that have no Ray Nagans at the wheel .
Report Post »Glenn is Right
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 9:46amWhat ever happened to Aaron in Polk County? I miss that crazy guy….
…anyway, This is a CAT 1 storm at best, 90 mph winds (gust maybe). Unless your house is made of straw, you have nothing to worry about.
Report Post »Buy some candles, get a battery powered radio and enjoy Mother Natures show.
Nervous Investor
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 10:29amSure right 13th. Wonder if those folks (and their DemoRat politician leaders) ever wondered why they have Levees?
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