New York City said all public beaches would be closed through Tuesday because of “life threatening” rip currents generated by Hermine.
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The beach area between One Dune Lane and 19 Dune is now restricted for beach renourishment construction. Further north, dunes were destroyed in Nags Head and Kitty Hawk, with severe beach erosion reported.
While alerts are no longer in effect, we still are experiencing an impact from the storm… the wind today, not as strong as yesterday, has been gusting to around 40mph.
Some passengers were reportedly feeling a bit sick to their stomachs as the Royal Caribbean’s Anthem of the Seas sailed through rough seas amid Tropical Storm Hermine, CBS New York reported.
The wave heights will be 11 to 14 feet, he said.
“We’re very fortunate that our original fears did not come to fruition with this storm”, said Suffolk County Executive Steven Ballone, as he lifted the voluntary evacuation on Fire Island.
The town is waiting for the dredge to be reconnected with this pipeline system. As it zigzagged from water to land, Fay became the first recorded storm in history to make landfall four times in Florida, with 36 deaths attributed to it. They’re hoping to have that ship connected sometime this week.
Beachgoers say it’s hard to believe a Tropical Storm passed through just days ago in Eastern NC and some business owners say business has been great, if not better, since Hermine cleared from the Crystal Coast. But hundreds, if not thousands of people, had descended onto the beach for the traditional last weekend of summer.
Likewise, New York City had announced plans to close its beaches Monday and possibly Tuesday, as rip currents developed.
Governor Rick Scott toured the affected areas in Florida including Levy, Taylor, and Pasco counties on the Gulf Coast and surveyed the damage caused by the flooding from the tropical storm. Hermine then continued on a path out into the Atlantic Ocean and began resembling more of a nor’easter.
The storm, which crossed northern Florida and then moved up the Georgia and the Carolina coasts, was still packing sustained surface winds of up to 70 miles per hour with higher gusts on Monday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. Water was 5 feet deep in several villages on Hatteras Island after the Pamlico Sound spilled onto the island on the back side of Hermine.
Kottlowski described Hermine as a hybrid between a tropical system and a nor’easter whose biggest threats remain high winds and risky waves as tall as 15 feet.
High winds tipped over an 18-wheeler on Saturday, killing its driver and shutting down the US 64 bridge in North Carolina’s Outer Banks.
Hermine battered parts of the South, packing strong winds, heavy surf, knocking down trees and power lines, and damaging docks.
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Two people have died in the storm.
