A Needless Plague: We Are Not Ready For What is Coming to the Outer Banks.
5 min readApr 2, 2020
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…