Dispatches From Hurricane Erin: The Storm That Bent Time

Only half of state's known sea turtle nests hatched before Erin

Ocean Isle volunteers work to rescue hatchlings in a nest that was submerged as a result of Hurricane Erin impacts. Photo: Ocean Isle Beach Sea Turtle Protection Organization The North Carolina Sea Turtle Project kept careful watch over incubating nests threatened by the ocean overwash, storm surge and erosion associated with mid-August’s Hurricane Erin. Under the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, the N.C. Sea Turtle Project is a coa…

Dispatches From Hurricane Erin: The Storm That Bent Time

Hurricanes used to only have female names. Then in the 1970s, preparing the ground for more enlightened times, male names entered the mix too, partly helping emancipate downtrodden menfolk everywhere from the tyranny of the matriarchy.  Sadly, all this proto-wokery cost lives. Or, at least according to a 2014 study that contended that, since the World Meteorological Organisation began alternating male and female storm names, the ones with female…