No sooner had we mentioned the unusually heavy cut-through traffic yesterday than Beacon reader Greg Pensabene submitted this photo of the traffic backed up on Sea Oats Trail, at the Hwy. 12 intersection, around 4:45 p.m., to prove it. Vacationers fleeing COVID-19 elsewhere are driving an increase in post-Labor Day occupancy at Outer Banks rental properties, extending the summer into October.
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