Outer Banks, Hurricane Erin and North Carolina
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Hurricane Erin moves offshore but still threatens East Coast with dangerous surf, rip currents, and tropical winds. Follow Newsweek's live blog.
Life-threatening rip currents brought by the offshore storm are forecast to last for at least a couple more days.
Hurricane Erin battered North Carolina's Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway and surged under beachfront homes as the monster storm slowly began to move away from the East Coast on Thursday.