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 Hurricane Isabel --We took digital pix, but
our broadband/cable was down two weeks --got almost 1,000 emails once up
again-- including submitted images for Izzy's
own page. Apologies, we couldn't use them all. At left is a photo of only pilings left of Harrison's Pier. <==Click image to
enlarge. Ocean View's first pier owned by Harry Harrison opened in 1947;
see below, 1998 damage from "Bonnie".  1960's
Hurricane
Donna took the south end of the kitchen (see left), but
Aug '98 Hurricane
Bonnie downed another: the huge Sycamore (right photo courtesy of Andy
Gaul) atop the kitchen and dining room of the home we grew up in (at "326").
For us, it was base: olly-olly-in-come-free days of cook-outs and "fox &
geese" in the snow. The folks there now, Andrew & Tammy Gaul were Navy, with Andy now working as an electrician at Chesapeake Hardware Products since ‘96. They bought the house at the foot of Old Ocean View Road in 1986, moving in with four daughters and fortunately no one was hurt. In '54, Old Ocean View Road connected with Cottage Toll Road (prior to Tidewater Drive) in those days and corner businesses were Pop's (small grocer) and a Central's Drug Store (remember Stanley and his brother?) same bro' as ran the one on Bayview Boulevard.
Hurricane Floyd in 1999 hit just in time for a party at Hurricane's (originally Mason's Restaurant in Riverview, now Tabb's). Hurricane Hazel in 1954 was quite a lulu, too. Ironically, in '85 we were living in Buxton on Hatteras Island (AKA 'Graveyard of the Atlantic') and staunch islanders were evacuating like crazy, for Gloria; so we drove to Rebe's for shelter. When we'd returned to the island a resolute neighbor said the eye passed right through Buxton --but we were lucky (though without power for five days) since it only took us for one shingle. Part XVII: Check out OV
ARTÍSTES!
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In Bayview the Richardson’s home only missed
by 6 feet, they were counting blessings, too. Note the tree (see left column)
at Ninth View. We all relaxed when the hurricane was finally downgraded to a
breeze. Bonnie also took a portion of one our most famous landmarks, Harrison’s
Pier in Willoughby Spit hurtling it to 6th Stop and you can see the lost portion in
the distance of this photo. 
When
on the morning after, we caught up with neighhbor Gigi Young, a local radio
personality, formerly with WNOR & the Coast, she told us of the
beach havoc she'd discovered while walking with her "best" friends-- Jake and
pals, shown bottom/left. 
