NAGS HEAD, N.C. (AP) -- State transportation officials suspended all ferry service to Ocracoke Island on North Carolina's Outer Banks on Saturday, leaving hundreds of residents and guests no way to reach higher ground as Hurricane Sandy threatened the coast with heavy winds and rain.
Also, more than a dozen people were stranded on an isolated barrier island with no way to get off after private ferry service was halted.
Hyde County manager Mazie Smith said in a statement that unsafe travel conditions and flooding on N.C. 12 - the main artery for traffic on the Outer Banks - forced the county to suspend emergency ground transportation. Residents were told to take additional precautions when the storm got close.
2 comments:
I guess they should just swim for it... they still have 2 days to make the swim. If they time the tides just right, they might just make it! I'll go down there to stand at the bank and cheer them on; that should help.
lol the flooding isn't even bad down there yet. Getting updates from locals, you're talking about 1-2' that's it.
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