";s:4:"text";s:4018:"Always call us. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Use up and down arrows to change selection. [NOAA/NWS]From Jason Wells, owner of Jason’s Restaurant in Ocracoke: As of 5:30 am the power is on and coffee is brewing. Randy Wells, fire chief with the town of Nags Head, said his crew and other response partners were on scene within five minutes of the call coming in. It’s very gusty and the house is shaking but so far no tide in my yard. The fallout from the prolonged outage has hit local businesses the hardest. The Town of Kitty Hawk is excluded from the curfew order. Once reentry procedures are set, the information will be distributed via the county’s emergency alert system. "People make money in summer to live through the winter," Janet Dawson, who operates the Cape Hatteras Motel, told CNN.com. Dominion is projecting that power will be restored between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. MES staffer, six students under COVID quarantine. Whether because of accidents or forces of nature, there are times when your power goes out. Officials did not share the cause of the fire. The Dare County Control Group has established a curfew for Hatteras Island (all areas south of Oregon Inlet) from 8:00 p.m. Friday through 8:00 a.m. Saturday. Just after that, he said the power started flickering briefly. Dare County remains under a Hurricane Warning and a Storm Surge Warning. Power is out in several areas of Dare County and Dominion Power is on scene. Sept. 6, 1:20 p.m. Nags Head reports causeway impassable; power lines down: From the Town of Nags Head: High winds from Hurricane Dorian are causing downed power lines and blowing debris, such as signs and roofing. Sept. 5, 7:45 p.m. Time has passed to safely evacuate: From Dare County Emergency Management: The time to safely evacuate has passed and Emergency Management is advising those in Dare County to shelter in place until the storm passes.
Water levels jumped 6 feet at Ocracoke in 90 minutes and 5 feet in 75 minutes at Hatteras village this morning.
Sept. 5, 6:30 p.m. Tornado watch expands: The National Weather Service has issued a new tornado watch for eastern North Carolina and parts of eastern Virginia through 7 a.m. Friday. “The danger there was with the energized fire equipment,” Wells explained. Leave your comment below. "We have something called a control group on the island, and it's composed of business owners and they get together ... and make the official recommendation of whether or not to evacuate the island," Shumate told USA Today in a previous interview. Tideland EMC has the most outages reported locally, with 1,329 customers in Hyde County already in the dark. Monitor updated local weather forecasts, watches and warnings from the National Weather Service at www.weather.gov/mhx. The ban on ocean swimming remains in place until further notice. damage to power lines or equipment); Repairing, maintenance or upgrades on power lines and equipment. As many as 50,000 people are impacted by the outage, which may take weeks to fix. Update 8/3 at 7:35 am: According to the Dominion Energy outage map, po… https://t.co/Q28p3InOek. Motorists are advised to proceed with extreme caution, as standing water and sand may be on roadways. US 64/S. (the Nags Head-Manteo causeway) is impassable due to downed powerlines and debris washing onto the road.