Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Move 1999
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- čas přidán 2. 06. 2024
- In 1999, the National Park Service embarked on a 12-million dollar move of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. At that time, the lighthouse was 129 years old and could not take the pounding surf any longer. In 23 days, it was moved 2900 feet, allowing it to sit 1500 feet back from the ocean in its new location.
I was there during the move.
My dad is Pete Friesen the one who moved it.
@@joyfriesen6115 Cool.
@@joyfriesen6115 I was just wondering how much the engineers were paid who moved it. That is an incredible feat! I would be nervous if it started to fall there would be no time to escape!
joy friesen how far did they move it?
@@mothlastname2413 1,600ft.
When was in Navy, I took some my friends rt there when they were preparing it to be moved. Was shocking to me to see what was happening at the time cause I grew up in nags head and this spot was one my surfing spots rt there at the jetties. Well while I was there with my navy buddies surfing the southern end of the beach just shy of the south jetty a thunder storm was starting to roll in. Well my friends were like hey I’m goin in a storm coming. I told them hell, that lighting storm is prob 50 miles away from us prob near Roanoke island or in far toward the mainland, we got time to get few more waves in. Well about min of me saying that the three of us could feel the hair tingling in the back if our necks and just then a lighting bolt came down with a massive bang and struck another surfer who was surfing not far from us inbetween the southern jetty and middle jetty going up the beach. Prob could had hit him with a rock. Well u better believe we all caught the next wave in rt then and got out the water as fast as possible. Unfortunately for the surfer who got hit by the lightening he was killed. My friends and Ending up helping getting him bk on shore later with some other people. To this day I thank my blessing my friends and me were not killed or hurt at that time to, we aren’t sure if it was being separated by the jetties or the distance that kept us safe, we really were not that far from him and only issues we had was that hair tingling and raising on our body and back neck etc, but one thing is for sure I always get out that water the moment it even looks like it may thunder and lightning out. And if think hear thunder or see it in distance I’m out that water fast unless my job at time made me stay in it longer in the water. But as for the light house we left it that day seeing it on those timber getting ready to be moved to its new spot in a few weeks or months but I never got to see it moved myself, had to go on a 6 month cruise in the navy after that and by time got bk home to Norfolk and bk to surfing down in outer banks again they had moved the lighthouse. That beach Just doesn’t feel the same to me from time growing up by there, do miss the lighthouse rt there at the beach but 100% understand and agree with having to move it. A lot of history with this structure. And our history is important.
It would have been nice for the newscasters to have a little consistency across their broadcast.
They said it weighs *"5,000 tons"* @ 5:23
And then they said *"48 ton"* @ 7:45
?????????????????????????????????? One figure is over 104 times as much as the other.
five thousand tons is much more likely. i would hazard a guess that she was supposed to say “forty-eight *hundred* tons”.