Hurricane Isabel Pictures

Satellite shot -- before and after -- Hatteras Escapes Rd is the 2nd right hooked lane on the left. House is visible as a few pixels. Notice the sand "fans" as the dunes were washed down the streets.	Durant Station -- now gone. Not my picture.	Privasea cottage - front view - with 2 feet of sand under cottage.	Privasea cottage - side view - shower missing; a/c unit wrapped around post.	Privasea cottage - back view - storm surge removed part of railing to back door.
Privasea cottage - left (sound) side view - the rack was attached near the front steps to hold beach chairs, the trees around the interior post are where uprooted and swept in from the street.	This is the trash pile of household stuff from the beach cottages. The pile was started across from the Hatterasman restaurant on Rt. 12.	Entrance to Hatteras Escape Rd from Rt. 12. We had to catch a ferry and walk in with a day pass to check the damage 6 weeks later.	Hatteras Escape Rd. -- lot of surge came down the street. We found parts of our shower across the highway from our street - probably 100 yards away.	Trash can from one of the cottages up the street. We found some of the trash cans across the highway at the edge of the sound.
Walking up Hatteras Escape Rd.	A section of the road looked badly washed out.	Baker's Shamrock, still on its trailer, slammed into his house and took out his stairs.	The cedar trees along the road were burnt by the salt water	Notice all of the trash in the trees around Baker's house. The water had to have been deep but most of the sand had fallen out.
Whitaker's place on the left. Notice the tracks in the road. It used to be a gravel road that was flat.	Notice the trash line from the water, the damage to the boards above it, and the a/c unit of its pedestal on the side of the house - the sound side not the ocean side.	Someone had come by to check on Whitaker's because there was carpet in a pile underneath the house.	It's like a football field to the ocean. The sand dune is completely missing.	Those cedar trees had been there for probably 30-40 years and had withstood an number of hurricanes.
The water level was so high that it pushed the railing in at the landing of the steps.	Privasea cottage - another view. All the trash underneath are trees from up the street. The yard was a mowed grass yard. We found grass down about 2 to 2 1/2 feet under the sand.	Back stairs. The interior of the house was fine. Some screens were missing.	Looking toward the beach off the back of our house. The house, Look n'Sea, with the missing roof was a modular home -- not as substantially constructed as most of the vacation homes.	Someone had plowed the cul-de-sac. The post was all that remained of a split rail fence in the back yard.
Side view from the back - Privasea cottage	It is interesting how the water carried the rack from where I was standing to the far corner of the cement pad which was down about 2 feet.	We could never see the ocean from here before. That little knoll in the middle was all that was left of the original dune put up by the CC Corps in the '30s. The whole dune had been the same height as this.	The houses on the beach were damaged.	The water must have come in at an angle because the house was gutted underneath with trash piled to the side
Notice the sidewalk next to Count Your Blessings, yet the lattice work under the house on this side was not damaged.	The yellow house was pushed inward on its pilings; the pilings were short, only going up to the lowest level. They dug under this house and righted it	Cul-de-sac and street were covered with deposited sand. Landing Zone is the house on the right.	Winds were reported at ~100 mph; this chair was pushed the length of the deck	This grove of trees caught others uprooted by the water; all are now gone
I had to dig down two feet to get to the water valve which was just above the grass earlier	This is the a/c platform at Escape II; Idler in the distance had most of the lower level ripped away, but the structure was solid. It has big brace boards between pilings.	Better picture of Idler -- there is a cement driveway under the sand	The only section of the orginal dune that wasn't washed away	Idler from the side
Count Your Blessings; notice how the deck sagged after the post was undercut	The pipes on the beach were laid to pump sand up the beach to fill the new inlet	Damaged houses looking north up the beach -- many with pools in the front	Looking south along the beach front; piece of dune to the right	Idler - beach side
the section of standing dune	the trash pile is from the pool enclosure	more of the pool enclosure	the pool	stairs out to the beach over the dune; curious that it wasn't washed away completely
looking back up the beach to Idler	same walkway as earlier	Whitaker's Escape, Privasea, and Bay Shore South; Whitaker had his windows boarded over before the storm	Privasea cottage	This home was brand new and had been occupied for only one week or so; the ocean moved it 40 feet or so inland; they removed the furniture and demolished the house; later built an new house on the site
the two houses were twins and were orginally in a straight line	the foundation posts of the house that was righted	it was pushed inland like a big box; it might have survived if it had been built high off the ground with open space underneath	Beach Nuts had lower level damage that was repaired	the pilings on the right were the start of a new house that was completed in the following year
the wind must have come from the south, then shifted during the storm from out of the east. You could see this pattern in the sand and location of debris	a lot of sand in the yard and under the house	looking for missing roof tiles; we didn't lose any	I put the a/c back on its platform -- it had been screwed down before the storm; now damaged beyond repair	Nailed the railing to the side of the house temporarily. Went to the store and bought water pipe; repaired pipe under house and had running water.
Power to the village and house was restored the day we were there. Trailers of bottled water and portable showers were in the village when we arrived by boat	The last section of railing had to be replaced -- don't think we ever found the piece that was missing	Walked to the new inlet north of cottage. Pieces of road on the right.	The inlet was in two sections with a small island in the middle where the power pole is located	Linemen on the power line finishing the repair of the main line to the village
Upper inlet was apparently 20 feet deep. It took one million cubic feet of sand to fill both inlets and provide a base for the road and replacement berm	Old pilings for a building long since distroyed; pilings were hidden under the old dune	Cottage near new inlet was swept into the sound	More damage; many homes, motels, and shops were damaged or distroyed	Rt. 12 into Hatteras Village -- looks like a snow storm; Sand Bar and Grill on right is now gone, as well as bicycle shop just beyond
near the Community Center	this all used to be grass, small trees, and smooth sandy yards	remnants of Billy Mitchell or Sea Gull or Hatteras Cabanas motel	much of the debris was from the motels on the ocean side of the highway	Gary's Drive In, now Fish Tails restaurant
convenience store	sections of Sea Gull motel swept across the road; Pelican's Roost Texaco and tackle shop was gutted and is now gone	looking down Rt. 12	the little house on the beach is Hunter's Haven -- it used to be the only house on a long stretch of beach -- survived Isabel	This old truck body was probably an old burial under the sand dune and was washed back to this house
same scene; notice the swimming pool and the damage to the house	same scene again	house in Summer Place II now has pool in front of it	Whitaker's Escape next door to Privasea	Whitaker's again