Storm cuts off Ocracoke Island, delays schools and threatens condemned cottages on the Outer Banks
The remnants of an unnamed storm that flooded parts of North Carolina’s Crystal Coast on Monday reached the Outer Banks this morning, delaying school, shutting down ferry service and closing...
![The National Park Service has expanded a long-term beach closure near a former military site on Hatteras Island after a strong petroleum smell along the shore and the discovery of more exposed concrete, old pipes, rebar and cables due to rapid erosion this week. A 0.3-mile stretch of beach in Buxton has already been closed for more than a year, with the expansion adding about a quarter of a mile more, the park service said in a news release. The beach is now closed from the southern end of beachfront homes in the village of Buxton at the end of […]](https://www.pilotonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Buxton-Beach-Access-09-04-2024.png?w=117 "The National Park Service has expanded a long-term beach closure near a former military site on Hatteras Island after a strong petroleum smell along the shore and the discovery of more exposed concrete, old pipes, rebar and cables due to rapid erosion this week. A 0.3-mile stretch of beach in Buxton has already been closed for more than a year, with the expansion adding about a quarter of a mile more, the park service said in a news release. The beach is now closed from the southern end of beachfront homes in the village of Buxton at the end of […]")
