Oak Island hurricane drone footage, OIB info

Dont know if there are any other homeowners down in Brunswick county or maybe forum members with vacation plans. So 4 house fires on Ocean isle beach...
Driftwood Dr 4 fires. East 4th St 1 fire

Some good drone footage from oak island as well here



Will have more actionable intelligence after my cleaning crew goes to our rental at OIB at 3p today

-Jim

Looks like a lot of people stayed and weren't expecting that surge. I've never seen that many vehicles after one, not even Fran at Topsail.

Bad JuJu...thankfully nothing wrong here.

Thanks for posting, saw a few places I remember from when I lived there 30 years ago.
Had a house up on 69th SE

Incredible! I hope nobody was injured in all the mess.

Surreal seeing some of the homes my wife and I were talking about just this past weekend when we were down there.

I have a place down there but we are up on the other end. Neighbor said they did not see any damage. Looks really bad, like they said I can't believe all the cars damaged.

My father in law lives at Oak Island but is several rows back in the middle, and thankfully did not have any water damage.
They said it was so bad because the surge came in at high tide.
He said the dunes are gone. And those cars were floating on that street during the surge.
He only had a big branch dent hood of girlfriends car:

And here’s a pic when they wandered down to that street in the drone footage. His girlfriend is standing on a swimming pool filled in by sand:

We had a condo down there years ago and Floyd or Fran, I forget which, came thru and they said there was 4 feet of sand on that road back then. I never saw it. They had it pushed out to the dunes by the time we got down there.

Cool footage

We are down here now. Got down Sunday afternoon with anticipation of riding out a tropical storm. About 1-3 am this morning had me rethinking my decision. I have never been through a tropical storm, the storm surge caused all the damage. Oceanfront homes and those across the streets took a beating. I would guess hundreds of cars were flooded, pushed out the back of the house, turned over, and washed down the street, boats in peoples yard with no trailers to be seen, multiple house washed off their foundation, sand is 2-3 feet deep on the road. We got lucky and had no damage. We lost power about 2AM, we left our condo and our now staying at a friend's house that happened to be empty this week.

My sisters place is the single burned house with 4 others across st.

Dan said:

My sisters place is the single burned house with 4 others across st.

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What happened?

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Not sure, happened during height of storm. Suspect one of the house' across street caught fire and burning debris lit up others. Her house burned from roof down.

Dan said:

My sisters place is the single burned house with 4 others across st.

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Damn. Not many words for that. Wife and I go down to check out our property about once a month, if there is anything through the insurance and rebuilding process we can do for your sister let us know

Wow. That's a lot more damage than I expected from this storm. Heluva surge.

Holy chit. Hope everyone is ok.

Looks like a lot of people that won't stay for a hurricane again. Copart will have a bunch of cars coming their way.

You would think that at some point people would get the message and figure out that you shouldn't be living that close to the ocean. Folks get wiped out and rebuild time after time after time. Take the hint, go further inland.
I for one am getting a little tired of my tax dollars paying for idiots to rebuild for the 10th time. I feel people should be self insured and stop asking Insurance companies to pay, year after year. If I was CEO the premiums would be so high no one could afford them. That would stop the rebuilding and allow the land to return to Mother Nature as it was in the beginning. But that's just me....

Insurance companies are not in business to lose money.

Bailey Boat said:

You would think that at some point people would get the message and figure out that you shouldn't be living that close to the ocean. Folks get wiped out and rebuild time after time after time. Take the hint, go further inland.
I for one am getting a little tired of my tax dollars paying for idiots to rebuild for the 10th time. I feel people should be self insured and stop asking Insurance companies to pay, year after year. If I was CEO the premiums would be so high no one could afford them. That would stop the rebuilding and allow the land to return to Mother Nature as it was in the beginning. But that's just me....

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I would bet their premiums are right hefty now...and likely to increase.

I lived in Jacksonville during Fran and Bertha (1996 timeframe) and I was amazed people were able to afford rebuilding with what the insurance rates must've been. I was fortunate living a mile or 2 inland but the barrier islands were just devastated. Having several 4wd vehicles on 40"+ tires was extremely handy to get around.

The rental prices in Topsail and such made reconstruction immediately profitable!

Ben Jefferson said:

I lived in Jacksonville during Fran and Bertha (1996 timeframe) and I was amazed people were able to afford rebuilding with what the insurance rates must've been. I was fortunate living a mile or 2 inland but the barrier islands were just devastated. Having several 4wd vehicles on 40"+ tires was extremely handy to get around.

The rental prices in Topsail and such made reconstruction immediately profitable!

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We lost ours during Fran & Bertha. My grandfather and great-grandfather built it in ‘55 after Hazel wiped Topsail clean (in Oct ‘54). I was always told it was the 2nd or 3rd house back on the island. It was on stilts, but then at some point they cinderblocked in the downstairs and made a couple of rooms...just had to go outside to get to them.

It was beachfront. I remember we used to have stairs going out toward the ocean. Plenty of sand between us and the water. After losing a set or two during storms, they were rebuilt to go parallel to the house instead. I was in the house the night we had a big storm and debris busted through the cinderblock walls downstairs and waves wiped the dunes away.

After F&B passed through, there was a cinderblock left. The top story was thrown a street or two back and a couple lots down. They allowed houses that survived to stay, but condemned all the other lots so no way to build back.

Bald Head across the Cape Fear fared fairly well except for a few houses on Middle Island that got severely damaged by a couple or few tornadoes that touched down. They also blew some windows out of some homes over on East Beach before heading out to sea.

My college roommate from the ‘80’s just moved into a brand new house near the Fort Fisher Ferry in Southport back in March or April.

His house was spared but several of his neighbors got some roof and structural damage to their homes.

I second the notion about building a home near the ocean. If they build there, they should be self-insured.