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11 Storm Surges That Reshaped North Carolina’s Coastline

Suhail Ahmed

When water rises fast enough to move houses, you don’t forget the sound – it’s a low, steady roar that turns streets into rivers and dunes into memory. Along North Carolina’s slender line of barrier islands, storm surge has been the sculptor-in-chief, carving new inlets, shoving sand miles inland, and rewriting maps in a single ...