Earl scorecard: Top gusts, rainfall and surge
Surf at Nags Head pier Saturday. (Voice photo)
Data from the National Weather Service showed wind gusts ranging from 59 to 83 mph just before dawn, when the storm was passing 75 to 100 miles offshore.
Storm surge in Hatteras Village, which saw the worst flooding, was 4.7 feet, according to the weather service.
Here are some of the wind gust readings:
Avalon Pier Friday. (Russ Lay photo)
Oregon Inlet Marina, 82 mph at 5:42 a.m.
Buxton, 71 mph at 6:30 a.m.
Manteo, 70 mph at 7:02 a.m.
Duck research pier, 68 mph at 5 a.m.
Nags Head, soundside: 60 mph at 5:10 a.m.
Kill Devil Hills, 59 mph at 5:01 a.m.
Total rainfall in Kill Devil Hills was 3.43 inches. In Hatteras, it was 4.5 inches and in Manteo, 3.98 inches.
All mandatory evacuations have been lifted.
Meanwhile, the National Hurricane Center is giving a weather system that was once Tropical Storm Gason a 70 percent chance of reorganizing. Computer models show it heading west and reaching the Caribbean islands in about five days.
Fiona has become a remnant low south of Bermuda, and Earl was south of Nova Scotia with top wind speeds of 70 mph.
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Jeff says:
I didn’t get much damage, but my neighborhood looks like it rained tree limbs after the storm. I hope Kill Devil Hills will give us a special debris pickup day instead of having to wait for the usual bi-yearly run.
bobxnc says:
The weather station at Nags Head Town Hall showed a 64 mph gust
D says:
My rain guage read the we had 6 inches of rain on the north end of Manteo.
David says:
I agree, I think I have 1000 pine cones in my yard now. I hope the elected officials will recognize the need for special pick-up dates. But then again, who ever said a politician can actually think much less recognize what the citizens need.
Mico says:
Am with you there, David. They definitely betrayed us here on Hatteras. Whose brilliant decision was it to not stagger re-entry to Hatteras and Ocracoke?? Our cleaners could not get here to ready houses, our store employees were stuck behind all the visitors, our supplies had not been delivered. We know how to get things done quickly, all we needed was a 5pm or even a 3pm full reopen with aforementioned residents and employees allowed on at 7. As it was, the ferries were not even allowed time to return before hundreds had lined up to wait, rentals were still boarded, some in need of extraction, pools full of debris and pool furniture as we wait for our people and goods to be able to get through with the masses.
So the decision was to make as many people p’d off and unhappy as possible??
These folks could have spent money while they waited in Nags Head and allowed us to ready their vacation for them.
ekim says:
Our commissinors, and so called storm officals are completely out of touch with the working folk that live here. I had several clients in total disarray because my crews couldn’t BOARD up their props because thay wouldn’t issue Evac so we end up hanging plywood till midnight!!! And take care of our on props last,this was about GREED an the REVENUE BEAST!!!!we need to vote them out.