25 WBM “My great aunt had a lot of sapling pine trees around her house and we would look out the window during the storm and the trees would be bent all the way to the ground,” Ashworth says. “It was a horrible sound with the wind blowing so hard the whole time and we had no idea where daddy was or what he was doing.” After the tide came in and the piers came up, with the boats still attached, Cecil Robinson and his brother-in-law dodged drifting vessels before the Dixie Rebel crashed into submerged pilings. Cecil Robinson secured the boat to a light pole on Waynick Boulevard. Having lived through the con-ditions of the storm firsthand, Knowles says she did not care that she had to sleep on the floor with a blanket that night. T:4.675” breathtaking landscapes, indoors or out. www.wrightsvillebeachmagazine.com Above: Many yachts and fishing boats were total losses after Hazel stormed through Southport. Left: A man clambers over a debris-filled Airlie Road. WWW.THEUMSTEAD.COM CARY, NORTH CAROLINA 866.877.4141 T:7.345” PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CAPE FEAR MUSEUM PHOTO BY ART NEWTON
October 2014
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