Monday, March 10, 2014 |
Marchin' through Sonag |
Uncle Jack and Mrs. U.J. fled Charm City last Tuesday after yet another storm dumped 8 inches of trouble on the city the day before. Luckily I-95 was dry and almost devoid of traffic so they made it to Sonag in record time. Unfortunately a three-day noreaster arrived at the same time so all they could do was hole up and wait it out while Mother Nature tried to blow the roof off. They finally got up to the beach on Friday and also made it over to Wanchese to end their serious fried-oyster deprivation at O'Neal's Sea Harvest. By Sunday it was warm and sunny enough to encourage a trip down to Salvo and back. Among other things they noticed an almost total dearth of swans and geese in the Pea Island Sanctuary ponds. Strange at this time of year. Surveyors were out in force in the area of the temporary New Inlet bridge where the D.O.T. plans to replace it with a two-mile long causeway of some kind.
Route 12 between the Bonner Bridge and Rodanthe was completely open in spite of the battering by the northeaster this week. Those are some mighty big sand dunes at the S-Curves and windblown sand seems to be the biggest problem for the D.O.T. right now.
They will be here for a couple more weeks so look for another blogavation soon.
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 click for larger image | No swimming in South Nags Head this day. The tail end of a northeaster that started Tuesday night with drenching rain and high winds and continued for three days. |
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 click for larger image | Looking north toward the Outer Banks pier. Incredible amounts of sand were blown westward during the storm and giant waves left the beach flat and hard for easy walking. |
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 click for larger image | With a sharp, cold wind out of the north walking south was the thing to do with the return trip via the splendid Sonag Multi-use Pedestrian Walkway---at least the parts that were not underwater. |
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 click for larger image | Windblown sand dunes have left the row of derelict houses on
Seagull Drive isolated on the ocean side. |
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 click for larger image | Blowing sand and snow have made keeping Seagull Drive open this winter a challenge for the Town of Nags Head. |
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 click for larger image | The N.C. D.O.T. has started work to replace this short bridge at New Inlet (which now carries route 12 over dry land) with a new 2-mile bridge. This should be interesting to watch over the next few years. |
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 click for larger image | The ancient graveyard in the Salvo Day Use Area got a new fence sometime earlier this winter. |
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 click for larger image | Sadly, no fence can stop the steady encroachment of Pamlico Sound from the west. Considerable damage is evident in this photo. |
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 click for larger image | Uncle Jack's house in South Nags Head had its first March renters this week. The prime weeks are filling up fast but many good weeks are still available. Google "Uncle Jack's Beach Cottage" or Cola Vaughan Realty for more info. |
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posted by Uncle Jack at 6:17 PM | Comments [0] |
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