A Needless Plague: We Are Not Ready For What is Coming to the Outer Banks.

Peter Graves Roberts
5 min readApr 2, 2020
Videos show bodies being loaded into morgue trucks in New York where the coronavirus death toll is now nearly 1,000. (Picture: Twitter/AP)

Full-time Outer Banks residents are engaged in a social media war with Outer Banks Non-Resident Property owners, or NRPO. While this catch-me-if-you-can drama plays out, residents of these barrier islands are missing a critical, last-minute opportunity to prepare for what’s coming: potentially thousands infected in local counties and hundreds dead, all at once

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Peter Graves Roberts

Pete Roberts is a poet, punk writer, backseat journalist and objector. Born and broken in Portsmouth, VA, he now works from the Outer Banks of North Carolina.