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Riding across Isabel Inlet for the first time, Nov. 21, 2003.
The now famous sign.
Condos just as you enter Hatteras village, across the street from ocean.
Motel section just as you enter Hatteras village on the oceanside.
Part of the cabanas on the oceanside just as you enter Hatteras village.
Tattered and torn motel and cabanas on the oceanside just as you come into Hatteras.
More battered motels, oceanside Hatteras.
The Slash, as seen from ferry landing side. This is the main road thru Hatteras village. A bridge is planned to replace this section of road which once crossed just a culvert.
An oceanfront structure across from the ferry docks in Hatteras. A river of ocean storm surge undercut the driveway and walkways leaving them to drop away.
This is the house that fascinated me so much from the air. It was washed completely clear of its pilings and set down on the ground behind them. I am standing on the pool area which was filled in up to the top with sand.
Just imagine the force required to move an entire house off its foundation, and in relatively one piece.
The surge moved it back and set it down on top of its septic tank.
I assume there was once a room or foyer under this house which was just folded and crushed when the house came down on top of it.
Another home in the same neighborhood but is across the street one lot back from the ocean.
Another oceanfront home a few doors south of the blue home just shown.
This home is actually located several lots back from the ocean, but was undermined by the swiftly flowing relentless current which ate away the ground underneath it, leaving it to fall into a sinkhole.
This home, which is across the street from the home shown above is several lots back from the ocean, in the general vicinity of the destroyed motels. This is the area hardest hit by the enormous storm surge. There were several young men who chose to stay in this home during the storm. During an interview for a local TV station, they told of the home being rocked up with each wave that passed. Indeed the pilings are pulled out of the ground on the right side of this pic, about 2-3 feet. Eventually they decided they should not stay in the home as they watched the home across the street being swallowed by a sinkhole. So they attempted to leave and only made it out to the pines pictured in front of the house. They climbed the trees and stayed there through the remainder of the hurricane, until the water level dropped enough to go back into the house.
The battered gas station on the soundside of Hwy 12 in the vicinity of the destroyed motels. Just to the east of this is a splintered set of pilings which once held the house now sitting out in the sound.
November 21, 2003. Signs of life returning to Hatteras Village, as Austin Creek Grille prepares to greet visitors for Thanksgiving meals.
Here the ferry named Frisco takes a load of service trucks from the Hatteras ferry docks over to Ocracoke. November 21, 2003.
