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Rain began to fall in Wrightsville Beach late Thursday morning as Hurricane Earl moved closer to the Eastern Seaboard.
A tropical storm warning has been issued for New York’s Long Island coast as Hurricane Earl barrels toward the Eastern Seaboard.
The Labor Day weekend always provides a big boost for the tourism industry in the state, North Carolina Director of Tourism Marketing Wit Tuttell said. Visitor spending typically tops $15 million per day along the coast in the summer.
Emergency responders and the American Red Cross are gearing up to help North Carolinians before and after Hurricane Earl hits.
Sophisticated computer models that replaced instinct with cold, hard math have helped forecasters predict where a storm like Hurricane Earl is going about twice as accurately as 20 years ago.
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Tracking Earl
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