09-23-2003, 09:28 PM
[font "Arial"][size 2]We just got the power back on after 5 days of being without it. There where light poles down for 30 miles around my house. We had a lot of trees down but no property damage here. Others did not fair so good. I saw trees on houses and on cars. We had stronger wind here then I have ever seen. I would said we had gusts up to 90 mph and I live 80 miles from the beach. The Chowan river is 15 miles from me and 25 homes where totally destroyed and that is just what I have seen. Now as for the beach from what little I have heard it was totally devastated. I heard we have 4 or 5 new inlets to the ocean. The D.O.T. said they where going to try to fill them in. Around 75 percent of ocean front homes are gone. I will try to find some photos from the beach. Hopefully in time they will have the beach so we will be able to fish again. But it will never be the same again.[/size][/font]
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