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Article: BERTHA SLAMS N.C. SHORE.(NEWS)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- July 13, 1996
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Byline: Paul Nowell Associated Press
Hurricane Bertha slapped Cape Fear and then battered a string of coastal towns Friday, ripping off roofs, washing away piers, flooding roads and toppling a Ferris wheel.
More than 250,000 people fled the beaches before the storm, which crashed ashore with top winds of 105 mph, drenching the coastline and spinning off tornadoes hundreds of miles inland.
The storm's top winds weakened to 85 mph when it stalled over land late Friday. By then, more than 186,000 customers had lost power in the Carolinas and a storm surge of 7 to 9 feet washed out dunes on fragile barrier islands, imperiling some beachfront ...