storms pushing through and getting away. this is such a massive system. the big deal for those people there within that region within kill devil hills, you have kitty hawk bay on the western side and the atlantic on the east coast. they are going to get it from both sides, the storm surge. reporter: you re right. there is nowhere for that water to go except to the middle. they are going to get a surge from both sides. it will lap up over the sides and will be an issue. they did refurbish the dunes here and rebuilt the area, rebuilt the beach. they are worried about the erosion. again we keep talking about it, but it s those driving rains and the surge that s also going to wear away some of this new sand and some of the dune work. everybody poised to see what happens and how they get true this thing.
redrew the coast of the north carolina. and cut with 2000 foot swamp and isolated the island for months and now hearing that irene could do the same. john robert system in kill devil hills in the north carolina outer bank. how goes it, john? it is going well. bill. in fact kids had to go to school by ferry while they replaced the cut that isa bell made. in a couple of places by cape hatteras island the storm swell is come in to a degree it may have cut inland. there is another interesting phenom nan under way. i am going to go out in the next hour and that is waters of the sound back in kitty hawk bay are pushed back by
time. so if the eye doesn t move too far away, on the back side, the storm has been pushing all the water inland, laces like new burn and elizabeth city. that water is starting to make its way back out. it will be soon and i walked out there myself. in kitty hawk bay. it s a surreal thing to do. you have shifting three, four feet water and there is nothing. people wait for these storms and they retrieve the item. here is what we know what is going in hyde county, we talked to emergency county management, i think you mentioned 400,000, there are no reports of injuries. there is minimal flooding there. there were reports that a dike or levee had been breached in swan quarter which is one of ferries from okakoke island,