Saturday, September 5, 2026
By Submitted Story on August 4, 2026
Dare County will host a community meeting to discuss communication and coordination related to closures of N.C. Highway 12 on Hatteras Island will take place on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Fessenden Center, located at 46830 N.C. Highway 12 in Buxton.
The meeting follows the temporary closure of N.C. Highway 12 on July 24, 2026, when intense rainfall caused significant flooding that made portions of the roadway unsafe and impassable leading to NCDOT to close N.C. Highway 12 from the Basnight Bridge to Rodanthe.
Representatives from Dare County and NCDOT will review the circumstances surrounding closures of N.C. Highway 12 and discuss existing procedures for monitoring roadway conditions and communicating potential and active highway closures with the public. The discussion will also provide an opportunity to gather community feedback and explore ways to enhance communication before, during and after future weather-related closures of N.C. Highway 12.
Comments
OBX Resident
A meeting not to discuss solutions our elected officials and transportation department are working on, but instead a meeting to communicate how to better inform the public that the road is closed….what a waste of time. I did not know that communication was the issue.
Charles
The only reason they will discuss it is because it happened when a ton of tourists were here, and even when the road was open it took folks 5 hours to get from the South Nags Head to Rodanthe on a Saturday.
The NC12 FB does an amazing job with updates. But a thunderstorm with 5 inches of rain cannot be predicted….
another mom
Time to fix, not discuss. Start with the ‘canal zone’ created by the roadside piles of sand through pea island.
Exhausted OBXer
Meetings have been going on for decades. North Carolina is so behind all other 49 states in this area and many others…..exhausting to love this place and have the folks in charge so unexposed to life in the United States. Meetings and money don’t make correct changes. Innovative, intelligent, caring people in charge make the difference and NC is lacking that.