DONNA - Storm of ‘60 September 16, 1960 The Beaufort News Down East Area Comes Through in Good Shape Phone Crews Hard at Work Telephone service between Beaufort and Morehead City was restored at 12:30 pm yesterday. L.A. Daniels, manager of Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Co., said his crews had hoped to work on the causeway cable Wednesday night, under lights, but they were unable to get the cable overhead by nightfall. The major trouble on the causeway, Mr. Daniels said, what that everybody was getting in everyone else’s way. Highway crews had to wait until telephone crews got out of the way; power crews had to wait until other crews moved – and so it went. Telephone poles on the north side of the B&M railroad went down on the causeway. The phone company is setting poles by Jones Barbecue and will run its lines on power poles on the south side of the causeway to bypass the washouts on the north. When the phone company will get the causeway back to pre-Donna status was anyone’s guess. “We’ll have to work with the State Highway Commission,” Mr. Daniels said. “It may be several months.” Many local calls could be made in Beaufort, Morehead City and Newport Monday, but the phone company was still clearing troubles there by mid-week. “We’ve got a bad situation at Atlantic Beach,” Mr. Daniels remarked. “There several houses have washed back against the cables.” There were also minor troubles down east.
Four extra telephone crews were moved in by the phone company to repair damages.