Hurricane Erin is churning up massive waves, flooding roads, and creating life-threatening rip currents along the New Jersey ...

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RODANTHE, N.C. — Hurricane Erin battered North Carolina’s Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway and surged under beachfront homes as the monster storm slowly ...

On Thursday, Hurricane Erin was several hundred miles off the coast of North Carolina and pushing storm surge and deadly rip currents toward the shore. Two other systems may form right behind.

Anyone caught in a rip current is advised to relax, float and avoid swimming against the current. Swimmers in this situation should swim in a direction following the shoreline, if they can, and if ...