Strong winds and waves batter Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard as Hurricane Erin moves out to the sea

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A man smokes a cigarette at the end of Jennette's Pier as waves from Hurricane Erin crash ashore in Nags Head, N.C., on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

RODANTHE, N.C. – Strong winds and waves battered Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard and dangerous rip currents threatened from the Carolinas to New England as Hurricane Erin made its way farther out to sea Friday.

The storm was forecast to cause possible coastal flooding into the weekend along the East Coast but was also expected to weaken gradually. Despite being twice the size of an average hurricane, Erin so far has managed to thread the needle through the Atlantic between the East Coast and several island nations, limiting its destructiveness.

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