What was the storm that cut a new inlet a few years ago, Irene? I had a long weekend booked with friends for Halloween weekend on Ocracoke Island that year, missed the last direct ferry from the mainland at Swan Quarter and had to drive down from Manteo to catch the ferry at Hatteras. The storm had just passed and it was a pretty wild ride, I actually went into the ferry’s passenger lounge instead of staying in my car, lol. To get there we drove on sand in many areas, wind whipped, snaking across in the headlights. There was a temporary steel plate bridge just north of Rodanthe over that new inlet. It took quite a toll on campers and such, there were destroyed ones lining Highway 12 off and on all the way down. Ocracoke was unscathed. Had a nice time, a little more chilly than we had planned but the house had a fireplace with gas logs and a fire pit outside, so we adjusted.
We camped in Waves in our ultralight travel trailer in late April. The week after we came home, there was a bad storm with hail and we read that it wrecked a lot of RV roofs. So RVing down there really is a crap shoot, I guess.