It was difficult to know what to expect when Hurricane Isaias, a Category 1 storm, made its way across the Atlantic Ocean to North Carolina this summer.
But as it made landfall near Ocean Isle Beach on Aug. 3, powerful winds, a five-foot storm surge, and tornadoes devastated the area especially coastal Brunswick County.
Isaias, which officially became a hurricane on July 31, was the earliest ninth named storm on record. (Previously, it was 2005’s Hurricane Irene.) On Aug. 1, it passed over the Bahamas and weakened, and then strengthened again before making landfall locally around 11 p.m. with sustained winds near 85 miles per hour. During peak storm-related outages, more than 365,000 customers in Southeastern North Carolina were without power.
Joan Klein Ennis
WILMINGTON Joan Klein Ennis, 91, a reluctant Southerner, died Friday, Dec. 25, 2020, at The Commons At Brightmore.
Her parents, Oscar and Eleanor Klein, moved their family from Union, New Jersey, to Winston-Salem in 1946, and the Jersey teen spent a miserable senior year of high school at a place and time when Northern transplants were an unwelcome rarity.
She got through it, though, armed with a disarming smile and inner strength that would endure throughout her life.
Her view of the South mellowed along with her accent. It improved dramatically when she met her true love, Vernon “Red” Ennis, at High Point College. They married and raised three sons, Michael, David and Gary, in Salisbury.
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Phillip Brock, 73, has been charged with first-degree murder of his wife. (Port City Daily photo/Courtesy Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office)
HOLDEN BEACH Phillip Brock was sentenced to serve at least 20 years in prison for the March 2019 murder of his wife, Judy Patricia Brock.
Phillip Brock, 73, pled guilty to second-degree murder Wednesday in Brunswick County Superior Court.
Brock initially called in his wife as a missing person. Investigators searched the couples’ Holden Beach home and collected evidence that eventually led detectives to suspect Brock.
Brock disabled the GPS device on his phone and unsucessfully disabled the GPS device on his Ford F-150, investigators found.