THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2005
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Harold Wright uses a chain saw to cut away a large tree blocking a main artery of Wilmington, N.C., yesterday as Hurricane Ophelia threatened the North Carolina coast. Ophelia came ashore last night as a Category One hurricane.
Ophelia begins N.C. assault
BY PAUL NOWELL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAROLINA BEACH, N.C.
— Hurricane Ophelia lashed the North Carolina coast with high winds and heavy rains yesterday, beginning an anticipated two-day assault that threatened serious flooding and an 11-foot storm surge.
"If you have not heeded the warning before, let me be clear right now: Ophelia's a dangerous storm," Gov. Mike Easley said from Raleigh, appealing especially to those in flood-prone areas to evacuate.
Ophelia was moving so slowly
just 7 mps last night — that
authorities expected the storm's passage through North Carolina to take 48 hours from the start of rainfall on the southeastern coast Tuesday afternoon to the storm's anticipated exit into the Atlantic late today.
Easley said he had spoken to Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff and that National Guard teams were prepared to evacuate sick, frail and elderly residents.
The storm had sustained winds of 85 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. Hurricane warnings covered the entire North Carolina coast from the South Carolina line to Virginia, where a tropical storm warning covered the mouth of Chesapeake Bay.
Following the criticism of its response to Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency had 250 workers
feet was forecast along the Pamlico River and water wasn't expected to recede until this morning, county manager Paul Spruill said.
on the ground — a larger-than-usual contingent given Ophelia's size. FEMA also put a military officer, Coast Guard Rear Adm. Brian Peterman, in place to command any federal response the storm might require.
Officials on the Outer Banks warned Ophelia could bring 10 hours of hurricane-force wind to exposed Hatteras Island. The southernmost villages of Hatteras, Frisco and Buxton, were expected to get the worst of the winds and the flooding.
"It's an island — the water will come over, it'll go out—and we'll do it all over again," said lifelong Buxton resident Tiffany Bigham, 27.
President Bush issued an emergency declaration for 37 counties in eastern North Carolina, authorizing the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA to coordinate disaster relief efforts.
A storm surge of up to nine
"You grow up knowing it's a part of life," she said.
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