Flooding continues to impact North Carolina’s Outer Banks and the surrounding Mid-Atlantic coastline as Hurricane Erin begins its push away from the United States’ east coast by the morning of Aug. 21 and continues into the north Atlantic Ocean.
The National Hurricane Center reported Hurricane Erin was 260 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, as of 11 a.m. (ET).
Its sustained winds were still at 100 mph, and a tropical storm warning remained in effect for most of the North Carolina and Virginia coastline from Beaufort Inlet, south of Cape Hatteras, through Kitty Hawk and Virginia Beach up to the Maryland state line….