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But the gritty and unforgiving banks life also meant that a community learned to survive on its own. Tom Davis, former longtime principal and superintendent in Carteret County, described to me the traits of the small fishing community in which he grew up: patience, individual responsibility, a strong sense of right and wrong, peer pressure to bring offenders of community standards back into line, and an extended family when needed. What I faced in Hurricane Bertha was slight compared to San Ciriaco. The water that day crested a foot shy of my home. A few trees were lost, a pier was destroyed, and perhaps a ton of debris washed into the yard. In 1 899 San Ciriaco forever changed the life of dozens of families and an island. Barfield writes that a Hatteras weather observer said the storm blew nonstop for three days, building to 140 miles per hour and dropping the barometer to record lows. The storm washed completely over Shackleford Banks, which had two schools, a church, a "porpoise factory," homes, gardens, and cemeteries. At the height of the storm, every part of the island was from three to ten feet underwater. The weather observer wrote,
Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jan 4, 1997
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