Hurricane Earl Update
Cape Lookout National Seashore To Close in Advance of Hurricane Earl, Cape Hatteras National Seashore Shuttering, Too.
With Hurricane Earl taking aim at the North Carolina coastline – and points north – officials at Cape Lookout National Seashore have ordered an evacuation of the seashore, while a bit farther north Cape Hatteras National Seashore officials were closing visitor centers and campgrounds.
Tuesday afternoon the National Weather Service issued a hurricane watch for North Carolina’s Outer Banks as Earl, at the time about 1,000 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, headed to the northwest with 135 mile-per-hour winds.
At Cape Lookout, Superintendent Russel J. Wilson ordered a mandatory evacuation of all visitors from the seashore islands beginning Wednesday evening. The park will be closed to all visitors and services as of 5 p.m. on Wednesday until further notice, he said in a release.
The weather service was predicting that the effects of Hurricane Earl will impact the Outer Banks Group units – Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and Wright Brothers National Memorial – by Thursday, with storm conditions continuing through Friday, said Park Service officials.
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