Hurricane Erin, North Carolina
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Meteorologists are closely tracking the projected path and forecast of Hurricane Erin, which is the first hurricane to develop over the Atlantic this year.
A powerful and sprawling Hurricane Erin continued lashing hundreds of miles of coastline along the Eastern Seaboard with its outer bands Thursday morning, proving a storm of such size doesn't need to make landfall to bring widespread impacts.
The North Carolina Department of Transportation closed a portion of Highway 12, a crucial artery in the Outer Banks, due to flooding. The East Coast and Bermuda will continue to see life-threatening surf and rip currents caused by Erin for the next several ...
Officials are urging visitors to begin evacuating at 10 a.m. Monday from Hurricane Evacuation Zone A, which includes the unincorporated villages of Rodanthe, Waves, Salvo, Avon, Buxton, Frisco and Hatteras. Residents are to begin evacuating at 8 a.m. Tuesday.
Most of the tourists have left Ocracoke Island, and the surfers are watching closely as deadly rip currents lurk below the waves.
Hurricane Erin is battering the East Coast with coastal flooding, life-threatening rip currents and high surf, and in a few places, tropical storm force winds, particularly in North Carolina and the Virginia Tidewater. While the hurricane's maximum ...