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Oblique aerial photographs of Ocracoke Island, NC

By St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center 2011 (approx.)
2 images of the same section of coastline before and after the storm; an arrow shows the same feature on each
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Oblique aerial photographs of Ocracoke Island, NC, from May 6, 2008 (top, pre-storm) and August 30, 2011 (bottom, post-storm, acquired three days after landfall of Hurricane Irene). The yellow arrow in each image points to the same feature. Overwash deposits of sand extend over the road after the storm. Heavy equipment is at work clearing the road, which appears buried rather than destroyed. Overwash extended tens of meters landward of the road into the marsh grasses on the sound-side of the island.

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Public Domain.