Hurricane Erin, North Carolina and Outer Banks
Digest more
N.C. Highway 12 on Hatteras Island reopened Saturday post-Hurricane Erin, with a staged reentry for locals, property owners, employees and, afterwards, visitors. The North Carolina Department of Transportation announced Saturday that N.C. Highway 12 on Hatteras Island is safe for travel after 12 p.m.
Hurricane Erin's outer bands are now brushing North Carolina's Outer Banks and conditions are expected to continue to deteriorate through the night. The region is just coming off
Hurricane Erin battered North Carolina’s Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway and damaged buildings as the monster-sized storm slowly began to move away from the East Coast on Thursday.