Hurrican Irene's Destruction

When we left the OBX area, we had plans to come back quickly.  Today we realized that is not likely to happen given the devastation there.  Out of all the places we have visited so far, this was by far the one that felt the most like "home" to me so I'm sad we won't be going back just yet.  We hope to return in the spring and in the meantime we will send supplies and do other things to help this area as they rebuild.