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bought a house (carefully selected for its elevation) and we could get our belongings, shipped from England, out of storage. But the three hurricanes and their
impacts must have registered subliminally in my brain, ready to influence my future
research when the time was right.
Fig. 4.1 Reconstruction of NC Highway 33 on the eastern edge of Greenville, North Carolina.
One of hundreds of cases of road/bridge destruction in eastern NC at locations where roads crossed
rivers or creeks during flooding caused by Hurricane Floyd in September 1999. (Image by S.R. Riggs)
Fig. 4.2 Highway 33 (10th Street) in Greenville, NC during Hurricane Floyd flooding in
September 1999. An East Carolina University building is at the right edge of the picture. (Image
by S.R. Riggs)
4 Barrier Island Breakdown: The Ephemeral Outer Banks of North Carolina
bought a house (carefully selected for its elevation) and we could get our belongings, shipped from England, out of storage. But the three hurricanes and their
impacts must have registered subliminally in my brain, ready to influence my future
research when the time was right.
Fig. 4.1 Reconstruction of NC Highway 33 on the eastern edge of Greenville, North Carolina.
One of hundreds of cases of road/bridge destruction in eastern NC at locations where roads crossed
rivers or creeks during flooding caused by Hurricane Floyd in September 1999. (Image by S.R. Riggs)
Fig. 4.2 Highway 33 (10th Street) in Greenville, NC during Hurricane Floyd flooding in
September 1999. An East Carolina University building is at the right edge of the picture. (Image
by S.R. Riggs)
4 Barrier Island Breakdown: The Ephemeral Outer Banks of North Carolina