Hurricane Erin floods coastal North Carolina
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Hurricane Erin battered North Carolina's Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway and surged under beachfront homes before slowly moving away.
On Thursday, Hurricane Erin was several hundred miles off the coast of North Carolina and pushing storm surge and deadly rip currents toward the shore. Two other systems may form right behind.
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The Weather Channel on MSNWeather Updates, August 21: Hurricane Erin's Waves Flood The Outer Banks As The Storm's Reach Stretches Up The East Coast
A s Hurricane Erin grazed U.S. East Coast, we've already seen the large waves and coastal flooding in North Carolina's Outer Banks, but this large storm's trek northeast has also pushed ocean swells high onto beaches along New York's Fire Island and the Jersey Shore.
At least two areas in the Atlantic show signs of potential tropical development, once of which could impact land. The next storm will become Tropical Storm Fernand.
Hurricane Erin continues its northerly track and is set to deliver impacts to the beaches in New Jersey and Delaware.
In October 2017, the ex-hurricane Ophelia struck the British Isles, bringing hurricane-strength gusts of up to 90 miles per hour, particularly along the Irish Sea coasts of west Wales, while the Republic of Ireland saw winds of up to 97 miles per hour.
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