Dispatches From the Eye of Hurricane Arthur

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Arthur from the International Space Station, July 3, 2014.

Image: Reid Wiseman, NASA

By Chris Taylor2014-07-04 03:27:21 UTC

Hurricane Arthur's giant eye, 30 miles wide, made landfall in North Carolina Thursday night — appropriately enough, at Cape Fear. But it wasn't just 101-mph winds that heralded the eye's coming. You could follow the online posts from the eerie heart of the storm as it moved inland.

Pilot Ricky Matthews, in the Crystal Coast port of Morehead City, described the scene:

Just to the west in Wrightsville Beach in Wilmington, Dean Norris — better known as Sgt. Hank Schrader on Breaking Bad — recorded the moment the eye of the storm hit:

and followed up with an equally defiant tweet:

See also: Watch Hurricane Arthur Through the Lens of Instagram

Norris wasn't the only foolhardy fellow hunting the eye of the beast. They were at it in the sky, too.

Still, it looks like you got a much better view of the whole thing from space.

Topics: Climate, hurricane arthur, U.S., US & World