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Hurricane Erin, a Category 2 storm, is causing dangerous rip currents and high surf along Florida's Space Coast.

Officials are urging beachgoers to stay out of the water due to hazardous conditions.

Surfers are taking advantage of the large waves, despite warnings.

A well-tanned, grey-haired man carried a surfboard under his arm jogged to the ocean in Satellite Beach the morning of Aug. 20.

“This is what I live for,” he called out when a passerby asked if he was

Numerous surfers were scoping out the waters off the Space Coast the morning of Aug. 20 c hecking out the waves rolling in courtesy of As of early Aug. 20, the large Category 2 storm was about 444 miles east of Daytona Beach. Its size and location is bringing dangerous rip currents and

Brevard officials

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