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As Bourassa and his boss, Craig Bosher, manned a bulldozer and an excavator to begin reconstructing U. Route 4, a crucial east-west highway in the southern part of the state, Mosher called the state transportation agency to tell them of their plans.

When he gave his name to the person who answered, Shinn writes, Mosher was told he was not an approved state contractor. Then he hung up and began rebuilding Route 4. We deliver climate news to your inbox like nobody else. Every day or once a week, our original stories and digest of the web's top headlines deliver the full story, for free.

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Adding to their difficulties getting crews safely out, some co-op storm centers had no landline telephone service. Communicating to consumers was of utmost importance to co-op storm center staff.

Soon after people lose their electricity, they want to know when they will get it back. Co-op communication professionals, like management and line crews, worked day and night, even when their own homes and families had suffered. They posted on websites, Facebook and online maps continual updates on where crews were working and where power had been restored. They talked with news reporters, radio hosts who collaborated in non-stop regional broadcasts, local government officials and with individual members who called or sent e-mail asking for help and information.

Communication staff did their best to explain progress and thank members for being patient. Members heaped praise on the line crews. Still waiting for a straight answer. I'm not going away. Taylor, our crews are continuing to work the major circuits in your area and working back toward services on secondary lines on those circuits.

Based on progress our crews are making today, the projected restoration in your area and others on this circuit will be tomorrow. Carteret-Craven's active Facebook, run by communication director Lisa Taylor-Galizia, drew much praise, including this from Jeremy Buseman: "This was fantastic work with beyond great turnaround time!

I've been through some bigger past hurricanes with another electric company and they never moved this quick or kept us this well informed. During the hurricane, I thought of what the crews would face and I recalled the years of service by our friends David Chadwick and other directors who have passed and how their leadership in being prepared helps keep our system in good condition today.

Chris Powell, public relations manager at Albemarle EMC, said, "Facebook immediately emerged as the frontrunner for crisis communication. In the world we live in now, members not only expect real-time information, they expect it to come to them and they expect to be able to respond back to it We found it a useful tool to address member concerns, and nip them in the bud.

One member asked why our yard had many line trucks in it that weren't out working. We replied that crews were coming in all morning from all parts of the Southeast, and it took a little time to get the crews processed and loaded and into the field.

Judging from comments co-op staff and management received during the storm's aftermath, most members by far appreciated their work. Safe in Garner, he sent his neighbors in the South Creek community of southern Beaufort County a panoramic photo he made of the serene waterfront they all enjoyed because "It will never look that way again. With a favorable environment ahead of the wave, a Tropical Depression formed on August 20 as the wave approached the Lesser Antilles.

On August 21, the surface center reformed closer to the deepest convection, as an anticyclone aloft provided supportive outflow over the cyclone.

With the improved structure, as well as light wind shear and high sea surface temperatures, Irene was forecast to strengthen to near hurricane force prior to landfall in Hispaniola. Over the subsequent day August 22 , while passing near the island of Saint Croix in the U. Virgin Islands, Irene moved toward Puerto Rico, more northward than initially expected, where it underwent a considerable increase in strength and organization.

Hours later, Irene moved ashore, approaching from the southeast at landfall near Punta Santiago, Puerto Rico, with estimated sustained winds of 70 mph. Despite the storm's interaction with land, radar imagery showed a ragged eye-like feature, and Doppler radar data indicated wind speeds in excess of hurricane force. Just after its initial landfall, Irene was accordingly upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane, the first of the Atlantic hurricane season.

After briefly weakening on August 23, Irene began to develop a distinct eye encircled by an area of deepening convection the next morning. Moving erratically through the southeast Bahamas over very warm waters, Irene quickly expanded as its outflow aloft became very well established. The hurricane intensified into a Category 3 major hurricane as it recurved toward the northwest along a weakness in the subtropical ridge.

Irene would gradually weaken to a strong Category 1 storm as it approached the North Carolina coast as dry air wrapped into the hurricane. Tropical-storm force winds began to affect the Outer Banks and Crystal Coast during the early evening hours of August Additionally, Irene spawned several tornadoes during the late evening hours of August 26, producing significant damage in Tyrrell, Washington and Beaufort Counties. Figure 6 shows the strong rotational couplet associated with an EF-1 tornado near Creswell, North Carolina around pm August Figure 6.

This couplet produced an EF-1 tornado. As the eye wall moved ashore, wind gusts to mph were observed at the Cedar Island Ferry Terminal. The lowest pressure observed with the landfall of Irene was at Beaufort Figure 7 with Strong winds and driving rains pounded most of Eastern North Carolina into the mid-afternoon hours on Saturday.

As the eye moved inland, strong westerly winds on the backside of the storm gusted to near mph at Atlantic Beach around AM. Torrential rainfall amounts in excess of 10 inches were widespread. Storm surge levels of over 10 feet were observed at Ocracoke and several breaches of Highway 12 were noted all along the Outer Banks. A total of 5 people were killed in North Carolina as the result of Irene.

Figure 7. Courtesy: National Ocean Service.