Photos and Video from Carteret County, NC

[orion]

For those interested, I have uploaded some photos taken the day after Ophelia hit Carteret County, NC. The pics are at:

http://digital-ink-graphics.net/ophelia

I have also put together a 6:45 minute video. This in in Real Media format (so you'll need Real Player) and is still a fairly large file ~47 MB. The video is at:

http://digital-ink-graphics.net/ophelia.rm

As you see there was some very significant damage for some, but overall we were very lucky considering what those on the gulf coast have gone through.

~orion

[recmod]

Excellent video presentation....We are seeing very little of this on the news (Katrina continues to produce the headlines). I was not aware that Ophelia did this much damage.

Good job....Thanks!!!!!!!!!

--Lou

[orion]

Excellent video presentation....We are seeing very little of this on the news (Katrina continues to produce the headlines). I was not aware that Ophelia did this much damage.

Good job....Thanks!!!!!!!!!

--Lou

Thanks! Yes, many were surprised by what this cat 1 storm did. I can't even imagine what it was like for those on the gulf coast with Katrina.

~orion

[Robert]

For those interested, I have uploaded some photos taken the day after Ophelia hit Carteret County, NC. The pics are at:

http://digital-ink-graphics.net/ophelia

I have also put together a 6:45 minute video. This in in Real Media format (so you'll need Real Player) and is still a fairly large file ~47 MB. The video is at:

http://digital-ink-graphics.net/ophelia.rm

As you see there was some very significant damage for some, but overall we were very lucky considering what those on the gulf coast have gone through.

~orion

Nice video

Yes, we were very lucky. I keep finding other little things that I didn't notice before (one shed blown hard enough to knock it out of square), but still really nothing major.

I did get into Morehead this morning and was surprised, just on 70, how much damamge there was. I was thinking about going over to the island, but figured that could wait for another day (nice that gas is coming down a bit, but still makes you think twice about going out of your way when you are paying so much).

As others are saying, I am going to reconsider my staying for future storms. A quick moving Cat 1, no problem (like last year), but I really was not enjoying this storm about 11:00, looking out by back window to see how high the water was coming up (it was actually going down by that point, but I could not see it well), hearing trees breaking and not being able to see where they are going, and the wind blowing too hard to feel safe to go out and look at the damage. During the day I think I would have felt better, but it was so dark, so much noise, and no distractions that I was not really enjoying it much. A quick moving Cat 2, forcast to hit during daylight hours I think I would say for, but a high Cat 2 or above, I am out of here.

Robert

[ANVANA]

Greetings from Topsail Island!

Not much damage here on Topsail. We did have a few shingles blown around....stairs to the beach washed away....pretty extensive beach errosion....partial dune failures....lots of trash littered the beach. I've heard of no major damage either north or south. But, then again, I haven't been out exploring very much. And, the local media seems to neglect our area of the beach when it comes to reporting anything. (We do have a local newspaper that publishes weekly, but by the time you read anything in it it's pretty much history.)

The weather station I have here is located about 50 yards from the beach. I measured a high wind gust of 58Mph. Generally, the winds hung around 40Mph. Rain total was 15 inches, but it has been so dry that the ground sucked it up. The only place water was pooling was in the places that it normally does during a thunderstorm.

We had nothing as extensive as the damage in Carteret County depicted by orion in his photos or video. (very nice job, by the way. orion should make this available to the NHC as an example of the amount of damage that one can experience in a Cat 1 storm.) Which leaves me to believe that if Ophelia would have been just a few miles more westerly, we would have received much more damage.

This is my 7th hurricane in the past 7 years and I believe this was the longest-lasting of any I've experienced. Ophelia just hung around for what seemd like forever. I think for us here on Topsail, it will go down as "Hurricane Boring".

My only real concern is that local residents and officials will look to Ophelia as a non-event and base decisions for any future storms on what Ophelia threw at us.

ANVANA
http://www.topsailweather.com

[ANVANA]

Greetings from Topsail Island!

Not much damage here on Topsail. We did have a few shingles blown around....stairs to the beach washed away....pretty extensive beach errosion....partial dune failures....lots of trash littered the beach. I've heard of no major damage either north or south. But, then again, I haven't been out exploring very much. And, the local media seems to neglect our area of the beach when it comes to reporting anything. (We do have a local newspaper that publishes weekly, but by the time you read anything in it it's pretty much history.)

The weather station I have here is located about 50 yards from the beach. I measured a high wind gust of 58Mph. Generally, the winds hung around 40Mph. Rain total was 15 inches, but it has been so dry that the ground sucked it up. The only place water was pooling was in the places that it normally does during a thunderstorm.

We had nothing as extensive as the damage in Carteret County depicted by orion in his photos or video. (very nice job, by the way. orion should make this available to the NHC as an example of the amount of damage that one can experience in a Cat 1 storm.) Which leaves me to believe that if Ophelia would have been just a few miles more westerly, we would have received much more damage.

This is my 7th hurricane in the past 7 years and I believe this was the longest-lasting of any I've experienced. Ophelia just hung around for what seemd like forever. I think for us here on Topsail, it will go down as "Hurricane Boring".

My only real concern is that local residents and officials will look to Ophelia as a non-event and base decisions for any future storms on what Ophelia threw at us.

ANVANA
http://www.topsailweather.com