It’s expected to stall over the water before weakening again.
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Post-tropical storm Hermine, located about 100 miles south of Block Island, began to turn northwesterly last night and is now moving in a direction that’s bringing it closer to CT. Dominion Virginia Power said crews were working to restore power to about 5,000 customers in North Carolina and 1,500 customers in southeast Virginia.
The storm is expected to maintain a “slow and erratic motion” through Tuesday night before moving ever-so-slowly toward the northeast on Wednesday, the weather service said.
At 11 a.m. Sunday, Hermine’s top sustained winds strengthened to 70 miles per hour (110 kph) as it moved east-northeast at 10 miles per hour (17 kph).
Elizabeth Brister, 23, saw her Labor Day weekend plans in “A.C.” blow away in the wind.
Tropical storm warnings stretch from DE to MA, including New York City.
Still, the Island saw several hundred power outages Tuesday morning associated with the storm.
A beachgoer stands at the edge of the water, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016, in Bridgehampton, N.Y., on the southeastern shore of Long Island, where the effects of storm system Hermine could be seen in the rough surf and a ban on swimming.
White, along with Bill Tromm, head of Beach Haven’s Emergency Operations Center, attended a briefing on the storm at the Ocean County Sheriff’s Department Office of Emergency Management in Berkeley Township Sunday night.
All New York City beaches are closed to swimmers Tuesday, according to city officials.
Hermine, which has killed two people, struck Florida’s northern Gulf Coast on Friday as a Category 1 hurricane – the first hurricane to hit the Sunshine State in more than a decade.
The storm has claimed at least three lives, in Florida and in North and SC. Governor Rick Scott Governor Rick Scott, in fact, the day before had called the storm a potential disaster and declared a state of emergency for 51 of Florida’s 67 counties.
Tropical Storm Fay, a strong and unusual tropical storm that moved slowly and erratically across Florida in 2008, causing widespread flooding and damage across the state. The storm could fall below tropical storm force by Thursday as it drifts further away in the Atlantic, forecasters said.
On Saturday, high winds tipped over an 18-wheeler, killing its driver and shutting down a bridge in North Carolina’s Outer Banks.
The Coast Guard says even though this storm might not be a full blown hurricane, people still need to take it seriously.
On Sunday afternoon, he said, a few homes still lacked power.
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A medical examiner’s office has yet to determine whether the storm was the cause, Florida Gov. Rick Scott said.
