The company expects service to those customers to be restored by 5 p.m. Monday.
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Virginia Beach also remained under a tropical storm warning Sunday, with the weather service describing conditions as “breezy to windy”.
Officials are advising Fire Island residents to evacuate by 6 PM as surges from Tropical Storm Hermine may threaten the coastal community.
On Sunday, Hermine was technically a post-tropical cyclone off the shores of Long Island, New York, and Ocean City, Maryland, according to the National Weather Service.
Robbie Berg of the National Hurricane Center said it was not expected to make landfall again.
The widespread power outages and flooding that battered Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas had likewise yet to materialise farther north, where alarming news reports scared tourists away from the beach on Sunday. At least one tornado was reported touching down in North Carolina on Saturday, causing at least one injury, local media reported.
“This is not a beach weekend for anyone in the Mid-Atlantic to the northeast”, said Eric Blake, a hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Gusts of 35 miles per hour or more are possible.
Hermine became the first hurricane to make landfall in Florida in 11 years when it swept ashore on Friday near the Gulf Coast town of St. Marks with winds of 80 miles per hour (129 kph), knocking out power for 300,000 Florida homes and businesses.
The governor warned Hermine will cause significant pounding by ocean waves and light to moderate flooding through Sunday night and Monday high tides, especially in back bays.
As for rain and wind: The storm will be as close as it’s going to get to the area Monday given a turn to the north or even northwest. However, the storm track has continued to keep the system off the coast and it is not expected to bring additional rain or damaging wind to the First State.
“We are already experiencing more and more flooding due to climate change in every storm”, said Michael Oppenheimer, a geosciences professor at Princeton University.
Hermine picked up speed as it marched toward the East Coast, ruining the holiday weekend for some as it closed beaches as far north as NY.
The storm’s latest fatality occurred Saturday, September 3, when heavy winds propelled an 18-wheel truck into a bridge railing in North Carolina, killing the unidentified driver, authorities told Agence France-Presse.
Tyrrell County Sheriff Darryl Liverman said that high winds tipped over t.
A homeless man in Marion County, in the northern part of the state, died when a tree was ripped from the ground by high winds and fell on him. But he said he wasn’t aware of any buildings that were actually flooded in his neighborhood.
WAVY viewer John P. Motta sent a video of a jet ski floating away in the water off Virginia Beach on Saturday.
Derrick said by phone that the main road was “a little stop and go” traffic when “this weekend would normally be a parking lot”. He called the wet forecast: “definitely disappointing”.
Elsewhere along Hermine’s path, people were having decidedly less fun. A Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert set for Virginia Beach also was postponed to Monday because of the storm. The U.S. Coast Guard is advising boaters and swimmers along the NY and New Jersey coasts to use caution.
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“Red Cross volunteers remained on alert overnight as the storm blew through, prepared to respond”, said Barry Porter, regional CEO of the Red Cross in Eastern North Carolina.
