Some of the most gorgeous weather comes in behind a hurricane, deep blue sky, nice breeze, warm not hot. Assuming the beach erosion was minimal and it should have been given the speed, and that power outages can be addressed quickly, the tourists evacuated inland may well be returning in time for fireworks in many areas of the OBX. Hope so, it’s a killer economically to take away tourist dollars over the 4th out there.
To be clear, the “they” I was referring to are the global warming cheerleaders that were cheering for the first hurricane of the season and that it was recorded as a Cat 2 at landfall (and quickly petered-out...but it’s the Cat 2 record that matters for them. I won’t go into their bemoaning the lack of damage and lack of headlines to make their case...).