Steedman Lyles checks out Sunday, July 13, 1996 some tires washed up on shore courtesy of Hurricane Bertha two days after she came ashore at Topsail Beach, N.C. Authorities opened up Topsail Island to property owners in Topsail Beach, but not Surf City nor North Topsail Beach.
Vacationers walk along Long Beach, N.C., 35 miles south of Wilmington, N.C., as storm clouds gather offshore in front of Hurricane Bertha on Wednesday, July 10, 1996. The National Hurricane Center has issued a hurricane warning from Florida to the Virginia coast.
09/09/95 The tail and robot arm of the space shuttle Endeavor frames hurricane Luis in the Atlantic Ocean Saturday, Sept. 9, 1995. The astronauts aboard the shuttle talked to mission control in Houston about the size of the hurricane as they orbited the Earth.
10/04/95 Hurricane Opal is shown in this enhanced satelite photo at the 5:00 p.m. EDT update. The center of Opal is located near latitude 29.8 north, longitude 87.3 west or about 45 miles slightly west of Pensacola, Fla.
Hurricane Hortense is shown in this enhanced satellite map taken at 2pm EDT at the National Hurricane Center Monday, Sept. 9, 1996, in Miami. The center of Hurricane Hortense is located at latitude 16.5 N and longitude 65.3 W, or about 130 miles southeast of Ponce, Puerto Rico, with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph.
Berry Bieneman, 5, and his parents, Kimberly and Charles, drove over to the Atlantic from Kissimmee to enjoy the heavy surf that Bertha is bringing in.
Tim Piper, of Cocoa Beach, waves to passersby in front of his apartment, where he has taped the words "Go Away Bertha!" to his front door. He plans to ride out the storm with his 2 cats, unless Bertha is upgraded to a category 3 hurricane. (Eileen Marie Samelson/The Orlando Sentinel)
A bolt of lightning streaks across the sky above the steeple of Christ Episcopal Church Sunday night, June 23, 1996 in St. Joseph, Mo. The storm brought damaging winds and flooding throughout the Midwest.