Hurricane Dorian Howling Over North Carolina's Outer Banks

A tornado touched down in the The Farm at Brunswick County in Carolina Shores, N.C. on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019, damaging homes ahead of Hurricane Dorian's arrival. (Jason Lee/The Sun News via AP) WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Dorian howled over North Carolina's Outer Banks on Friday, lashing the low-lying barrier islands as a weakened Category 1 hurricane. Dorian's eye was 10 miles off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, as the storm moved northeast at 14 mph (22 kph). It's expected to remain a hurricane as it sweeps up the Eastern Seaboard Friday and Saturday, lashing the New England shore with heavy surf. Forecasters said large and destructive waves could reach nearly to the ceilings of one-story structures along the 200-mile (320-kilometer) string of barrier islands and spits. Earlier Friday, the eye passed just to the east of Cape Lookout, the southernmost point in the island chain. "Do not let your guard down," Dare County emergency managers warned people who insisted on riding out the storm. Water levels were dropping on the western side of the islands, but that water will return rapidly as winds shift, "bringing extreme soundside flooding for some areas," the county said. Ann Warner, who owns Howard's Pub on Ocracoke Island, said people did what they could to prepare. "The boats are tied down. Yards are cleaned up. Businesses are closed. People are hunkered down," Warner said by phone on Thursday. She lives near the southern end of island chain, an...
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