Hermine failed to stop Barb and Don Willis of Buffalo, New York, from enjoying the trip they booked months ago.
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Some 55,000 homes or businesses were left without power in Virginia as the storm struck. A tree crashed through her house.
Virginia Beach resident, Seth Broudy, speaking to Reuters news agency about the coastal conditions on Saturday, said: “Right now it’s rough as hell”.
The storm’s outer bands may have killed at least one person.
Hermine rose up over the Gulf of Mexico and hit Florida on Friday as a Category 1 hurricane before weakening to a tropical storm across Georgia.
By 11 p.m. Saturday, Hermine’s top sustained winds remained at 70 miles per hour as it moved east-northeast at 13 miles per hour.
Hermine was still a large storm, with its tropical storm force winds extending up to 230 miles from its center on Monday morning.
The storm, classified as a category one hurricane until it lost power as it cut a path of destruction through Florida and Georgia, was expected to linger off the coast between Virginia and NY for days.
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency Friday under the potential threat of damaging high winds, heavy rainfall and a risky storm surge and flooding.
The winds were so strong Saturday in North Carolina that all bridges to the Outer Banks were closed following a deadly accident over the intracoastal waterway.
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.
Overnight, four people suffered minor injuries when a tornado hit a campground in Hatteras Village, Dare County, North Carolina, officials said.
Earlier in Florida, a homeless man died when a tree fell on him.
Hermine spun away from the East Coast on Sunday, removing the threat of heavy rain.
As you begin your Labor Day celebrations, here is everything to know about Hermine’s impact today and for the rest of this week.
“This weekend would normally be a parking lot”, said Jim Derrick. The island, a narrow barrier island off Long Island’s southern coast, which fills with beach house owners and renters on weekends – especially long ones – was under a voluntary evacuation warning Sunday.
Elsewhere along Hermine’s path, people were having decidedly less fun.
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. New York City beaches would remain closed to swimmers on Labor Day and possibly Tuesday, the city said.
“We’re on the job and watching how things are going”, Christie said, adding sheltering has been arranged and is available if necessary.
“I don’t think it’s necessary”, he said. And Amtrak canceled or altered some service as the storm approached.
Hermine became the first hurricane to make landfall in Florida in 11 years, packing winds of 80 miles per hour (129 kph), and knocking out power to 300,000 homes and businesses.
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“I want everybody to have their power”.
