Sunday, February 26, 2006

Strange weather today

Extremely windy straight from the north, then one minute we are having a snow flurry, the next it's bright sunshine again! But hey, this is the Outer Banks! Weather's always changing!

Monday, February 20, 2006

Snow pix

A few from the Nags Head area this morning. It's all changed over to rain now, so what we got is disappearing fast. A few hardy souls were already playing on Jockey Ridge this morning.

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Light dusting of snow here today

Woke up to a light dusting of snow here on the Outer Banks this morning. I know we get excited over just a little, but it's something we just don't see very often! The roads are clear at least though. Thirty degrees, and hoping for a little more....

Well, spoke too soon about the roads. Just heard there was already a wreck on the Manteo-Nags Head bridge due to ice. Currituck bridge is iced over.

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

The Outer "Banks"

There are MORE banks springing up daily at the WalMart intersection at the Kitty Hawk, Southern Shores line. East Carolina Bank just found its old building not good enough anymore, so they tore it down this week and built a new one! Across the street there is a new Gateway Bank AND a new BB & T going up. In the Marketplace shopping center, there is a newly remodeled branch of the Bank of Currituck. And not to mention the previously remodeled Wachovia right next to the East Carolina Bank. Five banks within sight of each other. Hope we now can store all that money!

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Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Sand tax repealed

The Outer Banks Sentinel is already reporting as of 9 pm on Tuesday night that the sales tax has been repealed by a wide, wide margin of 79 to 21 percent. Dare County website is reporting 78 to 22 percent for the repeal. Vote count was 5363 for repeal and 1531 against repeal of the tax.

Friday, February 03, 2006

Kitty Hawk new berm

I took a ride over to the beach road in Kitty Hawk yesterday to see the new berm being built, and what all the hoopla is about. Yes, it is ugly dirt! The beach road is blocked from Eckner(Winks street) north a few blocks to Bennett. The large dump trucks are hauling this yucky dark gray mostly claylike material from a borrow pit in Currituck and stockpiling it between two oceanfront houses somewhere between those two streets named above. Then a large clamshell bucket machine is loading the material into these several large offroad dump trucks, which haul the material on the beach north to the Kitty Hawk pier area. At this point the berm has only been started up near the pier. I assume they intend to build one of this material south at least to the point near Eckner. That would be approx. one mile of beach. Below are a few pix of the operation. I got there late in the day, so the quality of the pix is not great- sorry! IMO, I can't think of a better boost to those supporting the repeal of the sales tax, than looking at this messy yuck on the beach! By the way, I voted yesterday.

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