Updated August 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM PDT

Hurricane Erin is slowly moving away from the U.S. eastern seaboard, but not before grazing North Carolina, where the storm cut off some road access in the Outer Banks and brought rain, storm surge and dangerous rip currents to coastal communities in the state. It's likely to cause coastal flooding to other parts of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast in the coming hours.

In its 2 p.m. ET advisory on Thursday, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami said the center of the Category 2 storm, which is packing sustained winds of nearly 100 miles per hour with higher gusts, is at about 285 miles east of Cape Hatteras.

A storm surge warning remains in effect from Cape Lookout to Duck, N.C., indicating a life-threatening risk of coastal flooding from

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