Hurricane Erin, North Carolina
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N.C. Highway 12 on Hatteras Island is safe for travel and opened at noon Saturday, Aug. 23, and Dare County will start a staged reentry process.
As Hurricane Erin churned off the North Carolina coast this week, its powerful waves destroyed most of the remaining sea turtle nests on Emerald Isle, dealing a blow to what had been shaping up as a successful nesting season.
Ron Fisher captured this video at Atlantic Beach, North Carolina a few miles south of Fort Macon the evening of Hurricane Ern's approach. Swimmers are ordered to stay out of the water due to life-threatening rip currents.