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Ash Wednesday Storm March 7, 1962.
Residents of the Outer Banks awoke to heavy surf, flooded streets, and gale force winds the morning of March 7, 1962. Houses were swept into the sea, roads washed away, and a new inlet was cut severing Hatteras Island just north of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in one of the most destructive storms to hit the mid-Atlantic coast.