. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. NOR'EASTER!. Wind Direction Direction of Travel The typical nor'easter's counterclockwise winds pound the coast as the storm travels northward. By Edgerton Well-known Outer Banker David Stick called it "a horrifying ; Aycock Brown, the self-styled promoter of the state's easternmost barrier islands, labeled it "The Ash Wednesday ; Meterologists call it "The Great Atlantic Coast Storm of ; Whatever you name it, the 60-hour northeaster that pounded the
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. NOR'EASTER!. Wind Direction Direction of Travel The typical nor'easter's counterclockwise winds pound the coast as the storm travels northward. By Edgerton Well-known Outer Banker David Stick called it "a horrifying ; Aycock Brown, the self-styled promoter of the state's easternmost barrier islands, labeled it "The Ash Wednesday ; Meterologists call it "The Great Atlantic Coast Storm of ; Whatever you name it, the 60-hour northeaster that pounded the Atlantic Coast from March 7 to 9 in 1962 was one of the worst non-hurricane storms to ever bring its fury to the Tar Heel coast. Stick, who was in charge of imple- menting Dare County's emergency disaster plan on the North Banks, reports that more than 500 miles of shoreline along the Mid- Atlantic states were affected by the storm. He says total structural damage was estimated at $234 million. About 1,800 dwellings were destroyed. Thousands more were heavily damaged. The Ash Wednesday Storm was what meteorologists refer to as an extratropical cyclone. These storms have many of the same characteristics as a hurricane, but without the central warm air mass and the well-defined eye. The primary problems associated with an extratropical cyclone are severe flooding and erosion, both of which were adundant during the Ash Wednesday Storm. The fury and power of this particular storm places it alongside many of the state's worst hurricanes. To complicate matters, The Ash Wednesday Storm made landfall when the sun, moon and earth were aligned perfectly for one of the highest tides of the year. Some of the footprints left in the sand by the Ash Wednesday Storm were: — A 200-foot-wide inlet two miles north of Buxton (later filled in by the Army Corps of Engineers). — Sinking of the Liberian tanker Gem about 100 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras. The ship split in half, and one cr
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