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North Carolina, After the Storm: What Travelers Need to Know

Updated: Oct 3, 2018

While much of the state continues to deal with flooding associated with Hurricane Florence, some areas, including the Outer Banks, are open for business.



Hurricane Florence may have struck the Carolinas only a week ago, but that’s not stopping surfers at the Easterns Surfing Championships, currently underway in Nags Head, N.C. Tourism on the barrier islands known as the Outer Banks, as in much of the state, is up and running.

“We’re dealing with the challenge of helping Americans understand the Outer Banks are open and ready for business,” said Aaron Tuell, a spokesman for the Outer Banks Visitors Bureau. “We’ve taken a lot of calls wondering if we’re open and they are surprised we were spared.”

North Carolina experienced the worst of the storm, and much of the southeast section of the state is still underwater as rivers continue to crest with the water dumped by the slow-moving storm. But from the northern coast inland to artsy Asheville and the Great Smoky Mountains, many of North Carolina’s popular tourism destinations are counting their blessings.

“We’re a state with a lot of rivers that tend to run south and east so all that water is flowing south and east and wreaking havoc with roads on the way to get to the beaches there,” said Wit Tuttell, the executive director of Visit North Carolina, the state tourism office.


Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/travel/north-carolina-after-the-storm-what-travelers-need-to-know.html

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