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.
11:37 AM - Sep 12, 2018 - 87 - 75 people are talking about this
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Gotta hope that is wrong. Wikipedia shows avg. elevation @ 3 ft., with many structures built on pilings / posts. These people want to join Blackbeard?
To find peak water height (NOT the same as "inundation") I believe one adds storm surge to normal high tide and then add something for waves -- but if the wave is a breaker... ???
There are high odds that most of the 200 people who stayed on Ocracoke are hard core “bankers” whose families go back for generations on the island.
If anyone knows how to survive a 9-13’ storm surge, it’s those people.