Weather experts have warned that it could again be upgraded to hurricane, even as beaches remained closed amidst storm warnings.
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The storm was anticipated to bring heavy rain and high winds with the potential for risky rip currents and coastal flooding, but tracked further east, missing the impact zone for most of the tristate area.
Hermine is still hanging on, even though the storm’s force is slowly weakening as it churns along the northeastern shore.
Beidermann estimated the winds measured “something like 90 knots” (103 mph) and ocean swells “got up to 40 or 50 feet at one point”.
“We still have some summery weather that we’re going to be dealing with”, Kines said.
At 11 a.m., Post-Tropical Cyclone Hermine was centered about 230 miles southeast of the eastern tip of Long Island, New York.
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.
And on Hatteras Island in the Outer Banks, a small tornado spawned by Hermine knocked over two trailers and injured four people, authorities said. Many started nearly immediately cleaning up, picking up tree limbs and other debris and trying to restore normalcy.
Shipping interests typically avoid the storms, and if Hermine lingers, as she is forecast to do, inventories of crude oil would be drawn down, despite continuing oil-by-rail volumes. In many areas, felled trees were being removed to clear the neighborhoods and roads.
Hermine’s march up the East Coast shifted toward the east Sunday, lessening the storm’s impact on coastal New Jersey, Delaware and New York City. Pasco County residents were ordered to evacuate the residential area because of rapidly rising water in the Anclote River.
The Anclote River northwest of Tampa was forecast to go well into major flood stage on Sunday afternoon.
Governors along the Eastern Seaboard announced emergency preparations.
“People knew that it was going to hit here so they changed their plans and it doesn’t seem like it’s been as busy this weekend as normal”, server Kenn Hendricks said.
‘I want everybody to have their power. “Maybe about a quarter to an eighth of what they put down was taken back”, said Beach Haven Police Sgt. Tom Medel. Thousands of homes and businesses lost power.
“We are sailing safely to Bermuda in winds of 34 knots at a distance of more than 140 miles from the storm center”.
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Other states of Georgia, Carolinas, and Virginia also faced massive power outages and infrastructure damages from flooding.
