Hurricane Earl continues to wreak havoc as it moves up the East Coast. Despite being downgraded to a Category 3 storm with winds clocked at 125 mph, Earl is expected to majorly disrupt travel plans this Labor Day weekend. We check in with people who are living in areas expected to be hit by the storm.
Hurricane Earl, located south of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on September 2, 2010
(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA))
We speak with Danny Couch, a resident who has refused to evacuate his home on Hatteras Island, a barrier island off of the North Carolina coast. He says his house is designed to be hurricane-proof.
Arlen Allen of Montauk, New York, at the Eastern tip of Long Island, also talks to us about how he’s preparing for Earl. He says he's taken moves to protect anything that can be moved by the wind. "Hopefully we'll just weather it out, just fine," he says.
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So with hurricanes it's almost impossible to know just what an impact they are going to have in advance. On the one hand we have Katrina that everyone underestimated; on the other we have numerous storms with some significant local impact but the chances of catastrophe for any one person quite small. In some ways this is an emergency management problem (see http://allhazards.blogspot.com/2010/09/bye-bye-hurricane-earl.html)
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