On the fifth anniversary of the memorable March Storm we thought
we’d recall other weather trouble of the past, and found this photo
taken in the aftermath of an October, 1899, blow - and high tide. The
tug is the Blanche, no longer with us, the building on the right is the
long-gone pavilion, but the four houses still stand on high ground at the
foot of Atlantic Avenue.
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Annexation
use permits,
top agenda
By Richard Nubel
Municipal Editor
With a legislative study commis
sion hearing on proposed deregula
tion of the electric industry conflict
ing with a regular monthly meeting
of city government Thursday,
Southport aldermen met just long
enough to recess their March meet
ing.
Aldermen will reconvene to do
business at 7:30 p.m. this Thursday,
March 19, at City Hall.
Here’s a rundown of business the
mayor and board of aldermen of the
City of Southport will entertain:
■ Harbor Oaks Development
Corporation will ask for a condi
tional use permit to place a tempo
rary sales office in Harbor Oaks
subdivision. The developer wishes
to place a mobile office and will
landscape around it. The planning
board has recommended approval of
the request with the condition the
trailer remain on-site for no more
than one year. A public hearing on
the matter will precede board action.
■ City attorney Mike Isenberg
will report on his meeting with city
staff and the owner of a River Drive
tract he wishes to develop as a six
lot subdivision to be known as River
View. Last month Ron Thompson,
owner of 106 River Drive, said the
planning board’s denial of his subdi
vision proposal was racially moti
vated He is the only African
American owner of property on
River Drive, he said.
■ A review of final plats for
Section 2 of Harbor Oaks subdivi
sion and Section 1 of Sandy Hills
subdivision will be made. Harbor
Oaks lies between Moore and
Leonard streets with an entrance
opposite Ferry Road on Moore
Street. Sandy Hills subdivision lies
adjacent to the rear property lines of
homes on Jabbertown Road. Its
entrance is on Leonard Street, about
1,750 feet from its Jabbertown Road
intersection.
• ■ City clerk Jim Brown will
inform the board officially that Bald
Head Island Ltd.’s petition for
annexation of a 70-acre parcel on
the Cape Fear River northeast of
city limits is sufficient and the par
cel meets state requirements for
annexation. Aldermen are expected
to set a public hearing on the pro
posed annexation of the property,
which now Serves as a landing area
for the Bald Head Island ferry, on
April 2.
■ Aldermen will discuss adoption
of a resolution in support of
ElectriCities’ effort to ensure its
stranded debt will be paid by all
electricity users in the state when
the electric industry is deregulated.
Southport shares in the debt of the
agency which bought ownership
interest in nuclear power-generating
plants in the 1970s and 1980s, there
by reducing electric costs for all
users, the city and Electricities
argue.
■ A request for out-of-town sewer
service will be entertained. John and
Beverly McCloskey want the city to
extend sewer service to the 12 com
mercial units they plan to build on
3.5 acres on N. C. 211 next to their
Party Time store. Estimated flow
will be 1,800 gallons per day, based
on the number of employees they
expect to work in the 12 offices and
stores in the planned complex.
■ A request for satellite annexa
tion of nearly 41 acres on N. C. 87
north of city limits will be enter
tained, The parcel is not-contiguous
to city limits. Petitioners E. J. and
Amaretta Prevatte, Bette C. Robb
and Philip King Jr. wish to subdi
vide and develop the property and
want city services.
■ Brunswick Concert and Theatri
cal Society will ask the city for a
monetary donation to improve the
Centennial Center. The Centennial
Center is the old gymnasium on the
Brunswick Community College
Lord Street campus which is leased
to the non-profit group for 35 years.
The group says it needs to upgrade
the facility, which has been better
used since the city’s Community
Building burned. The facility has a
working stage and seating for 300
persons.
■ Three appointments will be
made to the city planning board.

We’ve mentioned it in ‘Time and Tide” and there’s a smattering
about it in “Not Exactly News” this week, but we thought a bit
more on the fifth anniversary of the 1993 March Storm — the No
Name Hurricane, some regard it — might be in order.
First, to recall the local particulars, it was Saturday, Mi 3,
when the sou’wester snuck up on us all, blowing so hard that
endeavor after endeavor had to be canceled with nobody exactly
understanding what was happening. Afterwards some complained
that the weather people hadn’t given warning, but in fact they had,
and the problem was that folks didn’t understand that a huge storm
can blow up in the spring just as one can in the fall.
Because there was no “official” alert like the familiar hurricane
watches and warnings, people were out in weather they never
should have braved, and marine interests were particularly hurt by
poor preparation. The miracle of the storm was singular — no one
was serious hurt, much less killed, in a time when limb and life
were in very great jeopardy.
How high did the tide get? We settled that then with the help of
Michael Goodwin, who reported that the tide crested at the edge of
the bulkhead of the Bald Head Marina, wliere it had washed into the
parking lot on the extraordinary tide on January 1, 1987.
HoW hard did the wind blow? Boyce Spencer logged a gust at 110
miles per hour in the pilot’s office on Bay Street.
We all recall that Capt. Wayne Ludlum and two pilot apprentices
had boarded the tanker Amelina at the bar that morning to take her
to Wilmington, and Spencer kept feeding information on wind
speed to Ludlum as he rounded into the harbor and started up the
river, unable to do anything else.
Ludlum did ask Spencer to forego any further wind speed reports,
as they were superfluous, and later he observed that if he’d known
it was going to blow that hard he would never have left the dock.
Bob Black, who we usually find here wrestling reef balls over the
side in the the Long Bay Artificial Reef enhancement program, is
tussling now with a matter of far more gravity, and asks our help*.
As member of the Southeast Regional Advisory Committee of the
Marine Fisheries Commission, Black along with his fellows is seek
ing help with recommendations on the use of commercial fishing
gear for recreational purposes. Specifically, how should recreational
fishermen use crab pots, gill nets and shrimp trawls.
The committee is to make recommendations to.the commission on
April 14, for devising of rules to be implemented in 1999, and
Black hopes to get some information which will breathe the breath
of real life into those recommendations. “It’s not a matter of
whether there’s going to be restriction put on commercial gear in
recreational use,” said Black, “the only question is what it’ll be.”
Give Bob a call and talk with him about it if you’re a recreational
harvester. His telephone number is 278-4137, and he’s ready to lis
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