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cenes from Oriental on Sunday, August 28.

When the storm surge ended, and the waters ebbed, Lu Ann and Dan Reinecke found a blue garden gate in their yard on Church Street. They put it out by the street with a sign. They quickly got an answer. It had floated down from Sue Henry’s yard a few hundred yards away. Many people have lost — and found — items in the storm and TownDock.net has put up a Lost-and-Found feature to match finders to owners.

Mind your toes. It wasn’t just boats and gates that Hurricane Irene deposited in odd places. This snapping turtle was stranded on Church Street just down from the Inn at Oriental. Trapped between the cement curbing, it had no means of escape. A passerby relocated the snapper to the Duck Pond.

Across from Oriental’s Town Beach Sunday morning, Floyd Blango and Eric Harper of the Bay River sewer system attended to the water damaged control panel at that pump station. No pumping was happening even as the system there was receiving waste from people’s homes. The cinderblock wall around the control panel had breached in Irene, letting water in to damage the panels and flood the manhole covers.

Eric Harper, a supervisor with Bay River Municipal Sewer and Water

As seen from the Town Beach, Supervisor Eric Harper of the Bay RIver Metropolitan Sewer District on the phone trying ot sort out the broken pump station whose control panel was flooded in Irene.

Katie, Bethanna and Jennifer Styron give the Garland Fulcher Seafood Market a hosing-out. Located on low lying ground adjoining the Duck Pond, the building filled with over 3 feet of water — and a healthy skin of mud — during Irene. Jeff Styron says he hoped the business would be selling seafood by the weekend.

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Posted Tuesday August 30, 2011 by Bernie Harberts