Losing it all to Irene

UPDATED Aug. 29, 2012 - From the Outer Banks Voice: "Irene a year later: Rebuilding an Outer Banks icon."



Billy Stinson comforts his daughter Erin Stinson as they sit on the steps where their cottage once stood on August 28, 2011 in Nags Head, N.C. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images.

Above is one of the more compelling images of Hurricane Irene's aftermath. Anyone who's ever lost everything