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Hurricane Erin Triggers Evacuation Orders Along Parts Of North Carolina's Outer Banks

Although direct impacts to the U.S. East Coast aren't expected, North Carolina officials aren't taking any chances. By The Associated Press • 1 hour ago

Hurricane Erin Is Now Category 3, Growing In Size

Hurricane Erin isn't expected to directly hit the U.S. East Coast, but by doubling or tripling in size, its impacts threatened the North Carolina Outer Banks, the thin, low stretch of barrier islands off the mainland, that poke far out into the Atlantic Ocean, Dare County emergency officials said as they declared a state of emergency.

They ordered an evacuation of Hatteras Island starting Monday. Several days of heavy surf and high winds and waves could wash out parts of N

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