my 2 boys Christmas 1989The weather this Christmas day here on the Outer Banks is rainy with a temperature in the 60’s. Warm weather on Christmas is not unusual on the Outer Banks, in fact cold weather is the exception. Looking back on the 25 Christmases that I have spent here on the Outer Banks I can only find one truly white Christmas. There have been cold Christmases. One year the chimney from the wood stove was blown across the frozen Pamlico Sound. That was a cold Christmas spent in a bedroom with a space heater and an infant son. In 1989 we had a truly white Christmas. It snowed the night of the 23rd and all of Christmas Eve. Christmas day was white and cold. . Children played in the snow and meals became impromptu gatherings of neighbors trapped by Mother Nature. Those of us who lived in Colington could not get off the Island. Snowdrifts had frozen a foot deep on the roads and Dare county not having a real need for snow removal equipment had to let mother nature do her work. By the 27th the snow and Ice were gone as too were the coats and gloves.
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