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Thousands evacuate North Carolina's Outer Banks after power outage By Joe Sterling and Rose Schmidt, CNN Updated 9:07 AM ET, Sat July 29, 2017 (CNN)Kalla Bruhl and her boyfriend's family had their Outer Banks vacation in North Carolina short-circuited. They were among thousands of tourists on Ocracoke and Hatteras islands who have been ordered to pack up and evacuate after a major power outage early Thursday. A transmission line was cut during construction work on a bridge, knocking out electricity to the two tourist meccas. "We were all upset," said Bruhl, 22, of Shepherdstown, West Virginia, who left Ocracoke by...

NORFOLK, VA. (NNS) -- Two F/A-18F Super Hornets assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 211 flying off the coast of Cape Hatteras were involved in an in-flight mishap at approximately 10:40 a.m. local time. The flight was part of a routine training mission. All aircrew have been recovered and are en route to medical facilities for evaluation. The F/A-18F is a two-seat aircraft. VFA-211 is based at Naval Air Station Oceana. A safety investigation will be carried out to determine the cause of the accident.

The Dare County Control Group has issued a mandatory evacuation order for residents and visitors on Hatteras Island beginning at 5:00 a.m., Thursday, July 3, 2014. After 5:00 a.m. Thursday, no access will be allowed to Hatteras Island. All Hatteras Island residents and visitors are advised to evacuate as quickly as possible during daylight hours on Thursday before the effects of Tropical Storm Arthur begin to bring high winds, rough seas, dangerous rip currents, and the potential for water and sand overwash on NC Highway 12. A State of Emergency has been issued for all of Dare County with the...

KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. A Pittsburgh man whose body washed up in Kill Devil Hills, N.C., after he went for a late-night swim off Corolla died from extensive shark bites, according to police and the medical examiner's office. The man's body was discovered Thursday morning in the 1300 block of N. Virginia Dare Trail by a tourist who was taking an early-morning walk, according to the Kill Devil Hills Police Department. The man was identified as Richard A. Snead, 60, of Ross Township in Pittsburgh. The body was taken to the regional medical examiner's office in Greenville; the cause of...

A NOAA-led research mission has located and identified the final resting place of the YP-389, a U.S. Navy patrol boat sunk approximately 20 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC, by a German submarine during World War II. Six sailors died in the attack on June 19, 1942. There were 18 survivors. The wreck is located in about 300 feet of water in a region off North Carolina known as the “Graveyard of the Atlantic,” home to U.S. and British naval vessels, merchant ships, and German U-boats sunk during the Battle of the Atlantic. NOAA and its expedition partners...

Hatteras Island is famous for its shipwrecks. But Thursday locals experienced their first ever "chip-wreck". A cargo container loaded with thousands of bags of Doritos Tortilla Chips washed ashore on the beach near Frisco and broke open. The container apparently fell off a ship. The chips scattered for about a half a mile, and some even floated as far north as the Bonner bridge. Arley Spake photographed the broken container. Spake works for Frito-Lay, the company that makes Doritos. His wife Janice joined him at water's edge. "It was really weird," said Spake. (Arley) was taking pictures for Frito-Lay, we...

BUXTON - The Coast Guard has decided to stop spending money to protect its station at Cape Hatteras after winter storms wiped out a 12-foot sand dune and brought the surf within 150 feet of the installation. No date has been set to relocate the facility, but plans have accelerated to move the 57 employees. About a decade ago, the Coast Guard spent $8.3 million to build 23 new housing units at the station, which is administrative headquarters for life saving stations along the Outer Banks. Erosion along the beach has flooded the station’s sewage treatment plant and some structures...

Written in sand Storms repeatedly open and close inlets on HatterasBY BILL GEROUX TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Sep 29, 2003From the air, it's easy to see how HurricaneIsabel ripped a new inlet between thevillage of Hatteras and the rest of the island, severing North Carolina Route 12. DON LONG/TIMES-DISPATCH From the air, it's easy to see how Hurricane Isabel ripped a new inlet between the village of Hatteras and the rest of the island, severing North Carolina Route 12. DON LONG/TIMES-DISPATCH HATTERAS, N.C. - The new inlet is a nasty piece of work. It is a gash one-third of a mile...

As Hurricane Isabel tore through Eastern North Carolina, it picked on some of North Carolina's most vulnerable areas: the fragile Outer Banks and the largely poor, rural northeast corner. Now, the state and its residents are trying to figure out how to fix crumbled roads, broken power lines and waterlogged houses. By Friday night, three people were known to have died in the storm. An estimated 283,000 were without power, down from a high of 700,000, and 70,000 had no phone service. In the northeast, the lights might not be back on for as long as two weeks, utility officials...

Date/Time: 9/16/03 7:55:42 AM Bulletin Text: The Dare County Control Group has issued a mandatory evacuation for Dare County beginning at 12:00 p.m. today (Tuesday, September 16, 2003). Residents and visitors on Hatteras Island are urged to make final preparations and leave the area prior to noon, if possible, since Highway 12 is prone to flooding and provides the only access south of Oregon Inlet. The northeast quadrant of Hurricane Isabel will cause damage along the oceanfront as the hurricane moves closer to shore. Ocean overwash is expected as early as today, particularly along the southern beaches. Soundside flooding will...