Hurricane Erin’s high waves thrash coast of North Carolina

The hurricane of Erin is brushing the storm along the east coast of the US, wetting the parts of the North Carolina coast.

North Carolina’s external banks are worst affected, authorities close an important highway on the barrier islands, but category 2 storm It is not expected to fall ashore in the USA.

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned people to avoid swimming in most of the beaches of the East Coast of the United States “because of their life -threatening surfing and rip currents.

Estimators wait for Erin, that Maximum 105Mph (168 km/h) winds that will reach the summit until Thursday. Porto Rico was already on the barbecue through the Caribbean.

Meteorologists say that hurricane is unusual and the tropical storm winds are spread 500 miles.

NHC, Wednesday at 20:00 EDT (00:00 GMT) update the update “Weakening is likely to begin on Friday, but Erin is expected to remain a hurricane at the end of the weekend,” he said.

On Wednesday, there were high waves of up to 30FT (9.14m) along the coast in the Atlantic Ocean.

In external banks, the highway was closed from Oregon Inlet to Hatteras Village because the conditions are very dangerous.

The ferry system of the state has evacuated more than 2,200 people since the obligatory evacuation in Hatteras and Ocracoke this week.

Some beach players were swimming at the sea at Wrightsville Beach in North Carolina on Wednesday, despite the fact that the town’s non -Basan consultancy until Friday. At least 60 people were rescued from RIP Currents on the same beach on Monday.

Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, North Carolina Governor Josh Stein warned people to prepare them.

“This is a serious storm,” he said. “Nobody should be in the ocean.”

Stein said that the state has three “fast water recovery teams” and 200 national guards who are ready to help people with boats, aircraft and other vehicles.

Lily, the hostess of the Miller’s Waterfront restaurant in the Nags Head, the town of Nags HEAD, said that the wind was “taking” and the weather is cloudy.

The storm is currently not affecting the job, “most air duct reacts over” he added – but added that there may be a different story on Hatteras Island.

Vickki Harrison, who works at Harbor House Seafood Market on Hatteras Island, said he chose not to participate in the evacuation.

“On Monday morning, all tourists and inhabitants evacuated on Tuesday.” He said. “But we chose to stay.”

He said that his family has lived in Hatteras for 40 years and had to evacuate several times.

“We have more problems than evacuating,” he said.

“Very safe, we are all torn, there are plenty of food and plenty of water.”