Hurricane Erin threatens US East Coast with life-threatening waves
The Hurricane of Erin strengthened the category 4 hurricane because it threatened to bring life -threatening surfing and tearing currents to the east coast of the United States.
The rains caused by the storm are already hitting the Southeast Bahamas and the Turkish and Caicos Islands, where a tropical storm warning is in force.
Although Erin is not expected to fall ashore on the islands, six inches (15.2cm) is expected to bring rainfall until the Turks and Caicos and Eastern Bahamas.
Erin, the first hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season, “deepened and concentrated on Saturday,” the explosives deepened “, briefly turned into a category 5 storm before losing power and now recovering power.
According to the local energy company Luma, more than 150,000 people were weak in Porto Rico after high winds damaged electrical lines.
However, the company said that it has made emergency repairs and 95% of its customers at local time on Sunday evening are electricity.
The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said hurricane’s outer rain bands began to affect the spring.
Although the storm was not expected to hit the islands directly, the country’s disaster risk management authority encouraged to prepare residents.
General Manager Aarone Sargent, the Bahamians, which shelters to check the closest to them, and if the first to be full of alternative shelters, he said they know.
“These storms are very variable and can make sudden changes in movement,” he said.
The estimation of NHC is that Erin’s nucleus passes through the east of the Southeast Bahamas and acts between the east coast of the United States until the middle of the week.
He also said Erin would remain a “big and dangerous hurricane” until now.
A series of islands on the coast of North Carolina – are already preparing for heavy surfing and high winds.
Authorities there, Hatteras Island gave a compulsory evacuation order and Hatteras’ı other islands connecting the main motorway may be impassable, he said.
Estimators also warned about dangerous RIP tides that may affect all the US East coasts.
