Hurricane Erin battered North Carolina’s Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway, damaged a waterside motel and swirled under beachfront homes

As impacts from Hurricane Erin are felt in coastal Virginia today, meteorologists say conditions going into the weekend will “improve rapidly.”

Officials are urging visitors to begin evacuating at 10 a.m. Monday from Hurricane Evacuation Zone A, which includes the unincorporated villages of Rodanthe, Waves, Salvo, Avon, Buxton, Frisco and Hatteras. Residents are to begin evacuating at 8 a.m. Tuesday.

Hurricane Erin could dump up to two inches of rain in parts of North Carolina this week as the category 2 storm churns over the Atlantic. On Hatteras Island, some tourists have relocated after a mandatory evacuation order and some residents are deciding to stay.

There is more to chowder than the cream-based New England style and the tomato-forward Manhattan style, like this clam-centric take from the South.