Hurricane Earl Update
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010Cape 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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