Up to 200 people decided to stay on Ocracoke Island, NC. There is no road to the island, ferry service has now stopped, emergency response has now stopped. They have decided to stay on an island that might go underwater. Don't be that person.
-- Jamie Mitchem (@DrMitchem) September 12, 2018
Eh, beat me to it!
Jamie Mitchem sounds more irresponsible than the 200 people he speaks of. Picturing 200 people floating away on pieces of rooftops and other debris as an island (which has been around since the 1500s sinks below the waves of THE MOST CATSTROPHIC HURRICANE in the history of the Weather Channel... this year.
Talk about hype. Flippin’ idiot...
Dear God, that’s madness.
That’s almost a quarter of the permanent population. They’re seafaring people, Ocracoke Village has a large fishing fleet. They’ll put their vehicles up on ramps or even drive them into their raised houses through large French doors put there for precisely that reason, then ride it out as they’ve done in the past. Ocracoke is above Cape Lookout, it’s the first inhabited island in the OBX chain. They’ll in all likelihood be OK, and if they aren’t it was their choice to make.