Parts of sailing is meeting all the interesting people and sharing tales of their travels and their traveling plans, Today's sail took us into the heart of the destruction from Hurricane Irene, which passed through here in late August of this year. All along the way we have been seeing uprooted trees, some that had fallen on houses, flattening them! many houses are boarded up, or just destroyed. Here in Oriental, the marina is opened, but there is still no electricity, and about 1/3 of the finger docks are missing, so those slips cannot be used. In town, the water rose 9 feet - it rushed in, stayed for three hours, then was sucked out again, but the damage left behind was incredible. FEMA brought in trailers to the displaced families to stay in, and many are still living in them while they repair and rebuild. Along our way today we passed by a town called Hobucken, NC, where there is a passage out to the ocean. There, a wall of water 14 feet high rushed in on the land and then was swept out again. Lots of "For Sale" signs in front of beautiful old waterfront houses here!
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