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Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest and costliest hurricane of the 1954 season. To this day, it's the strongest and only category 4 hurricane to ever hit the North Carolina coast.
Hurricane Hazel's storm surge impacting Morehead City on October 15th, 1954 (Russell James). Hurricane Hazel was one of the most powerful and destructive storms to strike Eastern North Carolina ...
Hazel was a Category 4 hurricane when it struck North Carolina, and its winds were estimated to be 125 mph at Wrightsville Beach and 140 mph at Oak Island. The storm was the most powerful ...
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The last time the midsection of the East Coast stared down a hurricane like this, Dwight Eisenhower was in the White House and Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were newlyweds ...
Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest and costliest hurricane of the 1954 season. To this day, it's the strongest and only category 4 hurricane to ever hit the North Carolina coast.
Hazel killed as many as 1,000 people in Haiti before striking the United States just south of Wilmington, North Carolina as a Category 4 hurricane; it is the strongest hurricane ever recorded to ...
APEX, N.C. - On Saturday, March 29, playing the great game of hockey became much easier in the state of North Carolina. With hundreds of up-and-coming hockey players in attendance, Carolina ...
APEX, N.C. — The Carolina Hurricanes are working to grow hockey in the Triangle. The team and the NHL are building two street ...
The earliest hurricane to impact the Cape Fear region brushed the coast on June 25, 1945. Hurricane Hazel, the strongest to hit North Carolina, landed in Oak Island on October 15, 1954.
RALEIGH, N.C. - Doug Warf, President of the National Hockey League’s Carolina Hurricanes, today announced the team and the Town of Apex will hold a grand opening celebration for two new street ...
when a hurricane makes landfall in north carolina, it doesn’t have to be a category 4 or 5 to be historic. MANY OF THESE STORMS ON OUR LIST MADE LANDFALL AS A CATEGORY 1 OR 2. STICK AROUND.