Fort Story after Isabel
Anti-Aircraft Battery
The location of this battery has seen substantial beach erosion over the past couple of years. This has become worse after Hurricane Isabel in 2003, even after the construction of a row of breakwaters. When the breakwaters were built, the shoreline was not up to the rocks as they are now. But the protective duneline has still continued to erode. The battery has been slowly falling over the dune as the sand is washed out from under it. When I first discovered it, it was almost entirely buried under the dune. On my latest visit, I walked into it for the very first time. 1999: Previously buried, gun emplacement #3 emerges from the dune. |
 2000: more erosion prior to the breakwaters. |
 2000: Another view of Gun #3. |
 2002: Magazine is still level. |
 2004: Entrance now revealed |
 2003: more deterioration despite the new breakwaters. The magazine has fallen over and the steps have separated from the gun block. |
 2004: more erosion after several storms including Hurricane Isabel. |
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155 battery
 2000: Gun Emplacement #4. |
 2004: Gun emplacement #4. Sites of #2 and #3 have been reburied. |
Battery 22
 2000: gun pad 2 |
 2000: gun pad 1 |
 2004: This foundation to the Commanders Station was previously buried under a dune (on which I am now standing). |
 2001: gun pad 1 (pad 2 in background) |
 2004: gun pad 2 |
 2004: gun pad 1 |
