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The owner of the Frying Pan Tower, Richard Neal, calls for more people to come to visit his mini lighthouse to help out with repairs. 

AND THOSE YOUR BUSINESS HEADLINES BY MARIBEL ABER ON THE MONEY DESK. THE OWNER OF THE FRYING PAN TOWER IS LOOKING FOR OVERNIGHT VOLUNTEERS TO HELP RESTORE THE TOWER. >> THE TOWER OFF THE COAST OF NORTH CAROLINA IS ONLY AVAILABLE BY BOAT OR HELICOPTER. SO VISITORS WOULD GET A ONCE IN A LIFETIME CHANCE TO STAY OVERNIGHT. AMAZON HAS EVEN STEPPED IN TO HELP OUT MAKING A HELICOPTER DROP FULL OF FREE SUPPLIES. >> THEY HAVE SOME GUYS ON HERE SCRAPING SO WE CAN PUT SOME PAINT ON A COUPLE OF BAD NEWS. THE HALLWAYS THEMSELVES. ELECTION GUYS HAVE BEEN WORKING ON CAMERA SIMPLY ONE RIGHT OVER HERE. SO WE CAN JUST TURN ON A LIVESTREAM AND PEOPLE CAN WATCHING FROM HOME >> FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO SIGN UP, GO TO WRAL DOT COM AND SEARCH FRYING PAN TOWER. THAT TOWER HAS ALWAYS BEEN A REFERENCE POINT DURING A TROPICAL STORM OR A HURRICANE OUT THERE. S BAROMETER. SO TO SPEAK OF WHAT'S HAPPENING THERE

The Frying Pan Tower calls for volunteers to help make repairs 

Volunteers spend days and nights surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, inside North Carolina's most fascinating and adventurous historic sites: The Frying Pan Tower. 

<p>And what sort of restoration projects are you guys working on right now? We have some guys all hear scraping so we can put some paint on a couple of the bedrooms, the hallways themselves. Got some electrical guys that have been working on cameras, including one right over here we can just turn on a live stream and people can watch in from home. The frying pan was actually put out here as a light station back before there was GPS And it's set out here, guiding ships off the frying pan shoals for 40 or 50 years and then finally all the satellites up in the sky made it so it was obsolete. So we've turned it into a research station and also to provide safety for the Mariners around here. Just educate people about what's down in the ocean beneath us. Typically people will come out by either boat or helicopter. The entire top of it is a Hella pod. That makes it really easy. Now the boat parks a little trickier because the waves can be a little bit high, but usually I'm the one that jumps off and climbs up and lowers down the hoist This hoist right above us and we pull them right up out of the boat along with all their gear, 80 ft up into the tower. How deep is the water where you guys are? How deep does the frying pan legs go down? Yeah. You know when they originally built this? They designed it to look like kind of like an oil rig. It's not an oil rig, but it looks very similar and they buried the legs of the tower several 100 ft into the bedrock. We're in about 50 ft of ocean water right now, which seems pretty deep until you get a hurricane and you have 30 ft waves that are coming up to the belly getting close to you. So it's very solid though. Even in the biggest storms, it barely rocks enough to put a baby to sleep. And have you ever been there during the storm? And what is it like? Yeah. Actually I've been during three hurricanes so far. The first one on accident when I got caught out here with three of my four kids in the volunteer, it was unintentional and a little exciting and I realized how solid the place was. So I've been out here for a couple more. And even though I hate hurricanes for what they do over on shore, I'll probably be out here for the next one. Really? Why is that? That surprised me. Hurricanes are the thing that you would never know how beautiful they are because when you're in them on land, you're worried about things flying through the air and hitting you buildings, trees, rooftops that doesn't exist out here. All we have is wind and rain. So when the wind is over 100 miles an hour and just amazing kind of Sherbert colored with all the air mixed up and they're no longer waves. Their large hills of water going past. It's a truly unique thing to get to see. And how many volunteers do you guys have there right now? Well, right now, we have five guys and myself and we typically have between four and eight. And with eight bedrooms, we always have plenty of room for people that want to come out, although sometimes they prefer to sleep up on the helipad because it's gorgeous out this time of year, like camping up there. Yeah, we have hammocks. We have air mattresses, uh, and there's zero bugs out here. So</p>

Full interview: Owner of Frying Pan Tower discusses need for volunteers 

Richard Neal, owner of Frying Pan Tower

Volunteers spend days and nights surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, inside North Carolina's most fascinating and adventurous historic sites: The Frying Pan Tower.

Owner of Frying Pan Tower looking for volunteers to stay overnight and help restore the property

Photo from the Frying Pan Tower's Facebook page. 

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Frying Pan Tower Cam

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Frying Pan Tower flag

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The storm-tattered Frying Pan Tower flag made famous during Hurricane Florence sold on ebay Sunday for $10,900, and the funds will go to help storm victims.




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The storm-tattered Frying Pan Tower flag from just off the coast is up for auction.



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The owner of Frying Pan Tower says his hope is to bring the flag to shore and donate it to the American Red Cross.



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Winds ravaged Frying Pan Tower throughout the day on Sept. 13, 2018, as Hurricane Florence approached the Carolina coast.