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Irene: Day 2
Post-Irene Photos From Sunday, August 28
August 30, 2011

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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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Keith and Marianne Bruno’s home and business were severely damaged by Hurricane Irene. Keith is a commercial fisherman. He suffered extensive damage to his boats, crab pots and nets. Here, the morning after the hurricane, he inspects his marriage video ruined in the surge.
It’s hard to make sense of a hurricane’s power. Here is the “Anna I. Brown”. She was deposited in front of the Bruno’s house. Yet, close by….
a pair of sliding doors survived unshattered. They washed in from a neighbor’s house. The boat and trailer fared less well.
The remains of the Bruno pier. Behind it, their residence.
The Brunos own Endurance Seafood, a wholesale and retail food seafood business. This is the cold storage unit where Keith kept his frozen stock. The storm surge was so powerful, it wrenched the heavy freezer from the dock it was mounted to – and destroyed the dock.

Posted Tuesday August 30, 2011 by Bernie Harberts


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