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Irene: Canoeing The Streets of Oriental
A Tour of The Flooded VillageAugust 28, 2011
The intersection of Broad and Hodges and the Old Central Hotel.
If you’re looking for the corner of Hodges and Broad look for this porch at the Old Hotel. It’ll be the landmark until the street sign, which flew on to the porch, is repaired.
Hodges Street Sail Repair and the Quonset hut next to it were flooded. Gil Fontes says he was glad he and Laura Turgeon remained in the repair shop that is their home because with the water levels rising even higher than expected, they were able to keep carrying their things to the second floor..
What the fashion-conscious storm surge survivor wears….
The way to travel during the eye of a hurricane. Bernie Harberts propels the TownDock canoe through Oriental.
On Hodges, a row of old lumber company homes appeared to have taken on water.
Elizabeth Cordes’ Oriental Dental.