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After Isabel: Hatteras Devastation
Aired September 22, 2003 - 15:45 ET
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MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: North Carolina is one of the states hardest hit by Isabel. The storm has changed the entire landscape of the Outer Banks, creating new islands and inlets. A village on Hatteras Island suffered significant damage.
CNN's Susan Candiotti with more on that.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Supplies continue to come on to Hatteras Island by ferry and by land. For example, the American Red Cross has been asked to supply three meals a day for the estimated 300 people who remain isolated on this part of the island. Heavy equipment is also coming in to start removing debris and to repair roads. Utility crews are already here also doing work.
Survivors are hoping to get things back to normal as soon as possible, but they also realize it could take time.
MARIANNE O'NEAL, CAPE HATTERAS RESIDENT: The hardest part right now is water. Communications, letter, families and friends know, even our cell phones have been intermittent service that's not anything that we can use on a regular basis.
CANDIOTTI: The storm surge has destroyed an estimated $313 million in property, and that's just from an aerial survey.
CNN has obtained exclusive footage of the storm. Isabel's eye wall blasting on to Hatteras Island, slamming into homes and businesses. A car washed away, winds blasting through trees, lakes being created where there were none before, sending a home floating into the inlet.
PO RANDY WITKO, U.S. COAST GUARD: You have to watch. There's trees under water. There's poles. There's the wires. There's fishing line nets. There's a lot of debris out there.
CANDIOTTI: But this by far is going to be the biggest engineering problem. Authorities have to figure out what to do about this -- water where a highway used to be. This used to be North Carolina Highway 12, now covered by water, when the storm surge came in. The pavement now broken up. Officials have to decide whether they'll be able to fill this in with dirt and rebuild the road or build a new bridge.
Susan Candiotti, CNN, Hatteras Island. (END VIDEOTAPE)
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Aired September 22, 2003 - 15:45 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: North Carolina is one of the states hardest hit by Isabel. The storm has changed the entire landscape of the Outer Banks, creating new islands and inlets. A village on Hatteras Island suffered significant damage.
CNN's Susan Candiotti with more on that.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Supplies continue to come on to Hatteras Island by ferry and by land. For example, the American Red Cross has been asked to supply three meals a day for the estimated 300 people who remain isolated on this part of the island. Heavy equipment is also coming in to start removing debris and to repair roads. Utility crews are already here also doing work.
Survivors are hoping to get things back to normal as soon as possible, but they also realize it could take time.
MARIANNE O'NEAL, CAPE HATTERAS RESIDENT: The hardest part right now is water. Communications, letter, families and friends know, even our cell phones have been intermittent service that's not anything that we can use on a regular basis.
CANDIOTTI: The storm surge has destroyed an estimated $313 million in property, and that's just from an aerial survey.
CNN has obtained exclusive footage of the storm. Isabel's eye wall blasting on to Hatteras Island, slamming into homes and businesses. A car washed away, winds blasting through trees, lakes being created where there were none before, sending a home floating into the inlet.
PO RANDY WITKO, U.S. COAST GUARD: You have to watch. There's trees under water. There's poles. There's the wires. There's fishing line nets. There's a lot of debris out there.
CANDIOTTI: But this by far is going to be the biggest engineering problem. Authorities have to figure out what to do about this -- water where a highway used to be. This used to be North Carolina Highway 12, now covered by water, when the storm surge came in. The pavement now broken up. Officials have to decide whether they'll be able to fill this in with dirt and rebuild the road or build a new bridge.
Susan Candiotti, CNN, Hatteras Island. (END VIDEOTAPE)
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