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MAR 2 8 1978 



June, 1977 



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hurricane season again 



In October of 1954 Hurricane 

 Hazel swept in at North Caro- 

 lina's southern border and bar- 

 relled northwest through the 

 state. She brought wind speed of 

 130 miles per hour and tides that 

 had devastating effects in Bruns- 

 wick, New Hanover, Pender and 

 Carteret Counties. She left a 

 wide path of destruction behind 

 her. 



The following year Hurricanes 

 Connie, Diane and lone hit North 

 Carolina within a period of six 

 weeks. In 1960 Hurricane Donna 

 hit land at the Cape Fear River 

 and moved straight up the coast 

 before it exited at the Virginia 

 border. 



By many accounts, Donna was 

 the last severe hurricane to hit 

 the North Carolina coast. The 

 rest have been just "close calls." 

 But, according to the National 

 Weather Service, that pattern of 

 good luck may be changing. From 

 about 1940 to the early 1960s, 

 most Atlantic hurricanes turned 

 east of Florida and affected the 

 Atlantic coast. Since then, how- 

 ever, hurricanes have tended to 

 make a northward curve in the 

 Gulf of Mexico and strike the 

 Gulf states. The weather service 

 contends that the pattern is shift- 

 ing again, bringing more hur- 

 ricanes to the North Carolina 

 coast. 



(See "Hurricane," p. 2) 



