Excessive heat warning for the area

The weather service has issued an excessive heat alert for the Outer Banks area from Tuesday through Thursday. The air conditioners will be working overtime this week in the rental homes! Hopefully the ocean will stay calm so the visitors can enjoy the water to cool off.

Rainy day, super busy

The line to enter the NC Aquarium at the Manteo airport was out the door into the courtyard. The parking lot at the outlet mall is full to overflowing. The bypass was literally bumper to bumper, with some touching unexpectedly. What are you to do on a rainy day on the Outer Banks, while on vacation? Well, you visit all those indoor activities, you shop, you ride and look, and look, and don't look where you're going.
Such is the state of a resort area in season on a rainy day.
The up side? You, the vacationer get to do those things you probably had planned to do anyway, and you don't miss a day on the beach. The retailer is happy, their rent gets paid, they survive another year to be there to serve the vacationing public another year.
Rainy days aren't so bad after all.

Watching the tropics

Well the first threat to NC from a tropical system is now at hand. The National Hurricane Center issued a tropical storm watch for almost all of the NC coast including the Outer Banks at 11 am this morning. We'll keep you posted from a front row seat!

Fourth of July Fireworks in Manteo

A new album of the Fourth Fireworks display in Manteo is
HERE

A great way to spend a Sunday afternoon

I posted a "trip report" on my board of a wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon boating on the Outer Banks. Check it out at:

Sunday Afternoon Boating Adventure

New tournament building at Pirates' Cove

The new building to house tournament activities is being constructed now on the grounds at Pirates' Cove. Hope it's ready in time for the summer's activities!

Wave Shack goes down

The Wave Shack building which was located next to RV's restaurant on the Nags Head causeway was in the process of being torn down today, to make way for an addition to the restaurant, an auxiliary building and more parking.

New message board is going great!

If you haven't seen our new Outer Banks Message board yet, take a LOOK! We have signed up a great number of members in the first few days, and have been enjoying a good time. We have a few locals on there who definitely add to the spice. To stay updated on the latest happenings on the Outer Banks, add the new Outer Banks Message Board to your favorites folder.

Outer Banks Message Board
Come join in the fun!

Alberto

Well, the latest on the National Hurricane Center update puts the track of Alberto exiting the coast of NC right over my island of Roanoke! Fortunately it will only be a depression by then. The rain shield is running far ahead of the center so it looks like it will be a wet day on Wednesday.



Wednesday morning update: Most of the heavy rain is either west of us over Raleigh/Durham or east of us out over the stream. The local weather channel crawler on the bottom of the TV keeps pumping the tornado warning and winds to 35, higher gusts. Looks like the system has sped up (once it got to I-95) and will technically be by here this afternoon late. Of course all the rain shield is still out front of it, but it also looks like the Outer Banks slipped through the middle of the two heaviest parts.

New Outer Banks Message Board

After some requests and pleading from some folks, I decided to start a new Outer Banks Message board. This is intended as just another place to stay in touch with what's happening on the Outer Banks, and stay in touch with friends we have all made over the years on various boards. Please join us!
Membership IS required to post, but you may read as a guest. We hope to have a good time over there with good clean fun and happy posts!


Outer Banks Board

It's finally summertime

Well, the season has kicked off in high gear. The roads are packed, the restaurants are packed, the merchants are pretty happy. The weather has finally decided to cooperate a bit today, and it is an absolutely beautiful summer day. Not too hot, and not too windy. Perfect beach weather with a slight east breeze. We are all looking forward to a wonderful summer season here on the Outer Banks!

Double rainbow, thunderstorms

Just had a report of a vivid double rainbow showing from the top of the Wash Baum Bridge at the same time as lightening and thunder, and a sunset! Wierd weather, but hey it's just turned summer on the Outer Banks!

Election results

The "unofficial" election results as posted on the Dare County website show:
Virginia Tillett kept her chance at a seat as commissioner, and will now face off with Republican John Robbins in the November election.
Rex Tillett defeated Ray Midgett for the at large commission seat and will face John Jack Shea in the fall election.
The big upset of the night was Max Dutton receiving more votes than incumbent Stan White, for commission seat. Stan is at present the chairman of the commissioners. Max will be unopposed in the fall election.

I hate this weather!

I'm so tired of wind and cool weather! It has been non-stop north or northeast for days and days now. Today was overcast and at times, a heavy mist blowing around that soaked you as much as rain. Looking forward to Wednesday, when it's supposed to go round to the west.

Cold and nasty out here today!

Cold, cold, cold! Nasty north, northeast wind blowing 20-30 miles per hour today after the front moved through last night. We had about an inch of rain throughout the evening and night. Just not the nice springlike April weather we would like to have out here on the Outer Banks!

Outer Banks historical photos

This week while cleaning out some old storage boxes I ran across some photos taken back in 1972 of beach erosion along the Outer Banks during a nor'easter' storm. My brother was working for the Park Service and went on an expedition to Buxton by air to view the damage down that way. This was before the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse was moved away from the beach. As always during one of these type storms Highway 12 washed away near Buxton. Do any of you remember the old sunshades at Coquina Beach, which is near Oregon Inlet? A couple of these pix show those sunshades just before they were washed away. Also a famous landmark in Nags Head, the old Arlington Hotel and Restaurant was swept into the raging ocean. The Arlington, owned by the Hayman family was once located on the oceanfront across from the Seafare Restaurant.
Enjoy these photos. I have more of a couple of different events, which I will get scanned and presented as a webpage soon.
Nor'easter' of 1972

Update: Pics from Kitty Hawk beach

Here's a couple of shots taken March 2 on the Kitty Hawk beach FEMA renourishment project ongoing. These were taken at the Hawk's St beach access.

Looking north:



Looking south from the same point:

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!

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.

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.