Hurricane Dorian reshapes shoreline at Cape Lookout NS; more than 50 new inlets created

Dorian’s landfall in the Outer Banks of North Carolina did more than flood coastal communities — it reshaped parts of the barrier islands, early damage assessments show.

The National Park Service Incident Management Team said it deployed 68 employees to take stock of the aftermath and found dozens of new inlets carved into part of the Cape Lookout National Seashore.

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