Mandatory Evacuation Orders For Hattaras Island (Pictures And Video)

Hurrican Arthur is slowly making its way up the east coast. It is theeatening to ruin the 4th of July holiday for millions.  Authorities have already issued mandatory evacuation orders for Hataras Island.

Picture credid: NOAA

The Dare County Control Group has issued a mandatory evacuation order for residents and visitors on Hatteras Island. After 5:00 a.m. Thursday, no access will be allowed to the island.

 

All Hatteras Island residents and visitors are advised to evacuate during daylight hours on Thursday before the effects of Tropical Storm Arthur begin to bring high winds, rough seas, dangerous rip currents, and the potential for water and sand overwash on NC Highway 12.   MOREHERE

 

 

 ”EVACUATION ORDERS”!
RODANTHE, N.C. — As one of the year’s busiest travel weekends approaches, so does another visitor: Tropical Storm Arthur, expected to grow into ahurricane by the Fourth of July and hit most harshly at North Carolina’s Outer Banks, a popular getaway spot of thin barrier islands along the shore.

The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season prompted a hurricanewarning for a wide swath of the North Carolina coast and prompted authorities to order a mandatory evacuation for visitors to the Outer Banks’ Hatteras Island as of 5 a.m. Thursday. Residents also were advised to leave the island. A voluntary evacuation was announced for the Outer Banks’ Ocracoke Island, accessible only by ferry.

Officials, hotel owners and would-be vacationers as far north as New England were also carefully watching forecasts. The storm was enough of a concern that officials in Boston decided to move the annual Boston Pops July 4th concert and fireworks show up by a day because of potential heavy rain Friday night. And rip tides were a threat as far north as New Jersey.
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