Latest Outer Banks Stories
By JEFF HAMPTON By Jeff Hampton The Virginian-Pilot From 1944 to 1965, Navy aircraft swooped low over the Currituck Sound with a mission to blast targets on the Currituck Outer Banks. Now the Army Corps of Engineers plans to clean up leftover unexploded ordnance lying where wild horses roam and near beaches where people swim and fish . Rockets, bombs and machine-gun ammunition lie within 182 acres in the Monkey Island Tract , part of the Currituck National Wildlife Refuge , about a mile...
By Jerry Allegood, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Nov. 12--BETTIE -- For a book-loving, retired librarian who doesn't care much for activism and public speaking, Carolyn Mason does a lot of both. She has done it for the wild horses of Shackleford Banks that have roamed an undeveloped island in Carteret County for generations. When the hardy herds were threatened by overpopulation and federal policy that would evict them from Cape Lookout National Seashore, Mason helped organize a...
Corrects location of Howard's Pub in fifth paragraph to Ocracoke Island from Hatteras Island. By Gene Cherry RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Ernesto dumped heavy rain on North and South Carolina as it closed in on the U.S. East Coast near hurricane strength on Thursday, and forecasters warned it could trigger life-threatening floods and tornadoes. Ernesto, which sloshed through Florida Wednesday after briefly becoming the Atlantic storm season's first hurricane...
By Gene Cherry SALVO, North Carolina (Reuters) - Hurricane Ophelia churned near the southeastern U.S. coast on Monday, forcing wary residents off the most vulnerable islands of North Carolina's Outer Banks. Heavy rains from Ophelia's outer squalls could soak parts of the North and South Carolina coasts by Monday night, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said. But the main core of the storm had barely budged in days. The center of Ophelia, the first hurricane to threaten the United...
By Gene Cherry SALVO, N.C. (Reuters) - Hurricane Ophelia drifted toward the North Carolina coast on Sunday and prompted the mandatory evacuation of the most vulnerable island of the state's Outer Banks. The center of Ophelia, the first hurricane to threaten the United States since Katrina devastated the Louisiana-Mississippi coast two weeks ago, was about 290 miles south of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina at 11 p.m. EDT (0300 GMT Monday). The hurricane was drifting west-southwest and was...
By Gene Cherry SALVO, N.C. (Reuters) - Hurricane Ophelia parked off the coast of the southeastern United States on Sunday and could hit North Carolina later in the week, forecasters said. The center of Ophelia, the first hurricane to threaten the United States since Katrina devastated the Louisiana-Mississippi coast two weeks ago, was about 255 miles south of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina at 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT). It had top sustained winds of 75 mph (120 kph), down from 85 mph (136...
