Anonymous wrote:We have hotel reservations next week for Kitty Hawk. Does anyone know what's going on there? I know a beach nourishment project may block beach access, but no one will tell us when or how much beach is inaccessible. I haven't heard of black outs in the Kitty Hawk area, but wondering if people moved from other areas to Kitty Hawk.

Please don't be the poster from the other thread about KH beach nourishment . It isn't a big deal. No the power outage (not black out) does not involve KH. On a week that historically runs 93-98% capacity on OBX you will not notice the additional few people from sout of Oregon inlet who were lucky enough to find altnenate vacation properties.

Anonymous wrote:Within a decade the island will be underwater anyway...now is as good a time as ever to just cut bait and realize these islands were never meant to be inhabited.

Guess what people were saying 10 years ago, and 10 years before that, and 10 years before that.....

Anonymous wrote:We have hotel reservations next week for Kitty Hawk. Does anyone know what's going on there? I know a beach nourishment project may block beach access, but no one will tell us when or how much beach is inaccessible. I haven't heard of black outs in the Kitty Hawk area, but wondering if people moved from other areas to Kitty Hawk.

You are exhausting and your beach project has nothing on what the folks with the power issue have.

Anonymous wrote:Don't people use credit cards? Just let visa deal with it.

Where I work, my job is to provide evidence as to why a disputed charge is not valid. I'm 100% sure these rental companies have a similar person. 99% of the time, at least in our cases, the disputed charge is reversed in favor of our company when evidence is provided. All these rental companies would have to do is provide the rental agreement that states they are not responsible for these type of disasters and the charge will go back through.

Within a decade the island will be underwater anyway...now is as good a time as ever to just cut bait and realize these islands were never meant to be inhabited.

Is the construction company taking any heat for their mistake?? Their error is, obviously, a huge economic nightmare. Is the mayor, govenor, state senator, anybody holding them accountable?

Anonymous wrote:The rest of the Outer Banks is now completely booked because of the evacuation in Hatteras.

The rest of the outer banks were already booked for the most part before this. Last week of July/first week of August are two of the busiest weeks.

Anonymous wrote:The rest of the Outer Banks is now completely booked because of the evacuation in Hatteras.

I JUST booked a hotel in Nags Head, and there were plenty of rooms available in other towns as well.

The rest of the Outer Banks is now completely booked because of the evacuation in Hatteras.

We have hotel reservations next week for Kitty Hawk. Does anyone know what's going on there? I know a beach nourishment project may block beach access, but no one will tell us when or how much beach is inaccessible. I haven't heard of black outs in the Kitty Hawk area, but wondering if people moved from other areas to Kitty Hawk.

It's not clear that that law helps. It says that renters aren't entitled to a refund if they purchased trip insurance. The problem is that some of the trip insurance policies do not cover man-made disasters, only natural ones.

Anonymous wrote:Outer Beaches won't refund renters. We rent with them every year because the houses we like are listed thru them. But they are awful. We've had issues from time to time over the years and every time they pretty much tell us tough shit.
I can't stand having to rent through them.
Tough luck for the people who lost all their vacation money

If you had trip insurance that won't pay, you may want to point this law out to Outer Beaches:
http://law.justia.com/codes/north-carolina/2005/chapter_42a/gs_42a-36.html

Anonymous wrote:We are pretty sure that the insurance we purchased through Outer Beaches will cover us but we need to wait for claim to be processed in 30 days. In the meantime we are desperately searching for an alternative vacation to start tomorrow which is sucking up all the getting ready time.

Its not the same as a beach house but we just had a really nice long weekend at the Holiday Inn North Beach/Virginia Beach.

Latest Update 1-2 weeks to fix

https://outerbanksvoice.com/2017/07/30/permanent-power-fix-for-hatteras-could-take-one-to-two-weeks/

After update today. Visitors may not be allowed next week as well.