| Isabel
- More Cleaning Up
Views
from a damp village
September 24, 2003
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"Oriental
Gothic"
Newlyweds Janet & Tim had several inches of water
in their home - we found them Saturday with Pine Sol &
bleach in hand attacking the problem.
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Paul Yurko,
Jr. says one of his fishing boats got thru hurricane Isabel, but
his other one didn't. Saturday morning he was at the boat ramp
in Oriental with his dad, Paul Sr. preparing to retrieve his summer
fishing boat. It had weathered Isabel on land near some pilings
up Smith Creek. Mother Nature put the boat there, Paul said.
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Paul Yurko, Jr.
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His other
boat is underwater at Trent Creek in Merritt. "Only three
feet of its whip lash are showing" Paul says. The sunk boat
is the one he would use for winter fishing, from mid-October through
April. But, he adds, he's okay for the winter because he "just
got a job on a scalloper". He was racing to retrieve his
summer boat Saturday before meeting the captain and crew of the
scallop boat in Ocean City, MD. From now through the spring, Paul
says, he'll work on the scallop boat near Maryland and New Jersey
and drive 10 hours home on weekends to be with his girlfriend.
Paul moved to Oriental 13 years ago from Point Pleasant, NJ.
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More than two feet of water was in the Coldwell Banker
real estate office on Hodges St. It is so severely damaged
that the building will be replaced.
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