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With peak travel season on the Outer Banks fast approaching, N.C. Department of Transportation crews will be changing speed limit signs along sections of N.C. Highway 12 in several parts of Currituck and Dare counties.
On Saturday, the speed limits in areas through the tri-villages of Rodanthe, Waves and Salvo, as well as in Duck, Corolla and Frisco drop from 45 mph to 35 mph to account for more vehicle and pedestrian traffic during the summer months. Speed limits also drop in congested areas of Cape Hatteras National Seashore, such as the area just north of Oregon Inlet and the area near the Haulover Parking Lot south of Avon.
The Valley Forge is a 108-foot firefighting tugboat, originally commissioned by the U.S. Army and constructed in 1954. It served for many decades, undergoing a refit in the 1990s. The tug was later decommissioned and put up for auction in 2012.
The Valley Forge joins tugboats, the America and the American at the site AR-165, located about 7 miles southeast of Oregon Inlet. The site contains about 7,200 tons of recycled concrete pipe. GPS coordinates are 35 degrees 41 minutes north and 75 degrees 26 minutes west.
An artificial reef is a manmade underwater structure, typically built to promote marine life in areas with a generally featureless bottom, that serve as crucial spawning and foraging habitat for many commercially and recreationally important fish species.
Abandoned since 1971, North Carolina ghost island preserved in time
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A swollen Potomac River covers the waterfront walkway and half of a gazebo in Alexandria, Va., after Hurricane Isabel slammed the East Coast on September 19, 2003. The storm caused major flooding along the Mid-Atlantic, including on the abandoned Portsmouth Island, N.C., which was abandoned in 1971. File Photo by Roger Wollenberg/UPI
A cottage sits uninhabited in Portsmouth, N.C. Photo courtesy Robin Kent Pittman
A watermark from a hurricane can be seen on the wall in an abandoned home in Portsmouth Island, N.C. Photo courtesy Robin Kent Pittman
High-tide lines of recent storms can be seen on a wall in Portsmouth Island, N.C. Photo courtesy Robin Kent Pittman
By MARK PRICE | The Charlotte Observer | Published: April 28, 2021 OUTER BANKS, N.C. (Tribune News Service) Five people had to be rescued from treacherous waters off the Outer Banks after their 26-foot boat sank and flipped over, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. It happened around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, about six miles beyond Oregon Inlet, officials said. The inlet is part of Cape Hatteras National Seashore on the central Outer Banks. Coast Guard officials said the rescue boat arrived about 40 minutes after the initial distress call about a boat taking on water. A photo shared by the Coast Guard shows the crew arrived to find the boat capsized and three people riding atop the hull. Two others were found floating nearby, officials said.
The new North Carolina Oyster Trail is a campaign to expose tourists to the taste of oysters, their environment and their importance to the coastal habitat.