there s a house over my area where some of the shingles are starting to peel off, and we heard from our photographers out on the road that he is starting to see that in other areas as well. as for other damage, the news so far is relatively good. at least for now. the roads seem clear. there s been no major structural damage. the power is still on here even with this heavy wind, which is good news. emergency managers are saying that they re fearing the same things that we re seeing, but also warn that we still have a lot of the storm ahead of us and that people should not be letting down their guard. their biggest concern has to do with the ocean surf. the conditions that we re seeing now are ones that we re in the most, and that s where the eye is coming in behind us on the west side of the outer banks, and that means that there can be a one, two, three hit many terms of ocean storm surge hitting this area. the first hit we re feeling now, the east winds from the top of the storm are