{"id":6770,"date":"2026-09-28T14:44:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=6770"},"modified":"2026-10-03T11:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T15:59:11","slug":"afterthoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=6770","title":{"rendered":"Afterthoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nature struck another blow to Hatteras. As the storm cleared out, I gathered my thoughts. This island is created by powerful natural elements. That\u2019s the allure that brought me and many others here. Only a couple weeks ago, we were still in our routines of summer. There were plenty of visitors, the ocean was warm, calm and no storms. With the arrival of Fall, things changed almost overnight.<\/p>\n

Weather forecasting predicted an event that found many folks unprepared. The low pressure arrived with a bang, throwing tremendous waves at us. It happens often, but tourism remained in place despite the threat of over-wash across vulnerable roadways. In the end, this storm has \u00a0made its unique signature added to a list of many in the past.<\/p>\n

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A vegetated dune is the first line of defense.<\/p>\n

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Dunes bow to the power of rushing water. At the KOA<\/em><\/strong>, a walkway spanning a once high dune, is sheared.<\/p>\n

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Sandbags are a desperate attempt to save infrastructure.<\/p>\n

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In Rodanthe,\u00a0Ocean Drive<\/strong><\/em> sits behind a row of oceanfront cottages. They’ve been digging this out for years. Storms past have claimed at least two houses here.<\/p>\n

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I thought about people happily congregating around these picnic tables at Camp Hatteras<\/em><\/strong> just days ago.<\/p>\n

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Over-washed sand covers half the campground now.<\/p>\n

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Debris and broken asphalt litter the ground.<\/p>\n

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I was drawn to a lone pine seemingly awaiting its fate.<\/p>\n

Each event we can learn how to live better within these elements. Nature is deemed destructive when man defies it, and highway 12 is a good example.<\/p>\n

Now what?<\/p>\n

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Nature struck another blow to Hatteras. As the storm cleared out, I gathered my thoughts. This island is created by powerful natural elements. That\u2019s the allure that brought me and many others here. Only a couple weeks ago, we were still in our routines of summer. There were plenty of visitors, the ocean was warm, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,26,6,30,21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beach","category-outer-banks","category-sea","category-storms","category-vegetation","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6770"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6791,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770\/revisions\/6791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}