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Published: 2013-02-08 07:30:48
Updated: 2013-02-08 07:30:48

Posted: February 8

NC Highway 12 closed south of Oregon Inlet

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Dare County, N.C. — Officials in Dare County closed N.C. Highway 12 to cars at Oregon Inlet Friday morning due to water in the roadway in the Mirlo Beach area.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation and Dare County deputies are working checkpoints on N.C. 12, and there have been reports of as much as 2 feet of water on the roadway.

It wasn't clear when the road would be reopened.

No other information was released.

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It is the choice of those who want to pay the high insurance rates, I don't have a choice when the state uses my tax dollars to keep repairing a road I don't travel. People in Raleigh have to pay a toll to get back and forth to work, yet we keep fixing Hwy 12 so people can travel on for free. I think the finest place (not plance)on earth is Topsail Island and there is a high rise bridge to get you on and off the island.
shaggingsenior
February 8, 2013 4:44 p.m.
BUT, you are fighting a battle you won't win. The Dynamics of the outer banks and shifting sands coupled w/future searise, pretty much spells out that their lives and properties are going to change.......

Well, folks have been living there since the days of Blackbeard and it hasn't shifted out from underneath them yet.....
btneast
February 8, 2013 3:43 p.m.
I love the outer banks and want NC to do all it can to keep the roads open for the people that live there and the visitors. they pay an enomorus amount of taxes and high insurance rates and deserve to at the very least be able to have access to their property and loved ones.

There is no finer plance on earth.
donnied19522
February 8, 2013 2:18 p.m.
Nature should be allowed to take its course. Ferry service between Ocracoke, Hatteras, and Kill Devils Hills would be the connections. Sorry but that is part of life on a moving island!
abaugh
February 8, 2013 2:12 p.m.
I'm tired of my tax money being spent for these barrier islands. The ocean is reclaiming and you can't stop its progression. I'm sorry people are losing their beach houses but we are wasting money on a project that is not going to change anything.
samjwebb
February 8, 2013 1:04 p.m.
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