THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Saturday, July 13, 1996               TAG: 9607130183
SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: A11  EDITION: FINAL 
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A BLAST OF BERTHA THE HURRICANE SWEPT INTO NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA FRIDAY BRINGING WINDS, RAIN AND FLOODING WITH IT.

The Virginian-Pilot

Bracing against the wind and rain, Colleen Ballance of Kill Devil

Hills takes a peek at the ocean on Friday.

MARTIN SMITH-RODDEN

The Virginian-Pilot

Brothers Jason and Todd Bogovich of Kent, Ohio, brave the winds

ahead of Bertha in Virginia Beach to venture onto Sandbridge. Gusts

up to 105 mph were recorded in North Carolina.

CANDACE CUSIC

The Virginian-Pilot

ABOVE: Michaela Barker, 12, stomps through a flooded Dinwiddie

Street in Portsmouth on Friday afternoon. Bertha pushed torrential

rains into the metropolitan area, leaving several low-lying streets

underwater.

RIGHT: Vacationer Lisa Lane, right, waits out the hurricane at a

shelter in a high school in Shallotte, N.C., about 5 miles from the

ocean near the South Carolina border. About 500 people crammed into

the school's cafeteria Friday morning for a breakfast of pizza and

apple sauce - the only food available.

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KEYWORDS: HURRICANE BERTHA by CNB