The good folks at HurricaneTrack are broadcasting live in Kill Devil Hills just after Irene came ashore Saturday morning. Watch it below, or go to their uStream page.
A second live Irene uStream channel, by CrazyMother.TV, was being featured on the uStream homepage as the eyewall passed over them in Morehead City.
Staff writer Anne Blythe reports that state prisons have evacuated 1,300 inmates from Hyde Correctional Institution in Swan Quarter and Tyrrell Prison Work Farm in Columbia.
In addition, some 140 inmates from county jails in Beaufort and Dare counties were moved with the state prison inmates.
Buses and drivers are on hand, according to prison administrators, for further evacuations if necessary.
Hurricane shelters are opening Friday in Brunswick, Craven, Duplin, Halifax, Hertford, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Pender and Wilson counties.
The state is coordinating with the American Red Cross, Salvation Army, N.C. Baptist Men and N.C. Social Services to shelter and feed evacuees. Mass Care Support trailers and mobile animal trailers are on standby in Halifax and Northampton counties to support those shelters.
See photos from cleanup following severe weather in Wilson County. Staff photos by Shawn Rocco.
See photos from storm damage across N.C. following Tuesday's severe weather.
