Coastal areas are being hit with damaging winds and dangerous surges of water. Warnings are in effect from North Carolina to Virginia.
Tropical Storm Ophelia made landfall on the North Carolina coast early Saturday, lashing coastal areas with damaging winds and dangerous surges of water, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Ophelia is likely to turn north Saturday and then shift northeast on Sunday, the hurricane center said. The storm promised a weekend of windy conditions and heavy rain up to 7 inches in parts of North Carolina and Virginia, as well as 2 to 4 inches in the rest of the mid-Atlantic region through Sunday.
The governors of North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland declared a state of emergency on Friday. Some schools closed early and several weekend events were canceled, and in Washington, the Nationals baseball team postponed its Saturday game until Sunday. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said the emergency declaration aimed"to ensure that all communities, particularly those with the greatest anticipated impact, have the resources they need." He encouraged residents to prepare emergency kits and follow weather forecasts closely.
"We're hoping it won't be that way this time," Nancy Shoemaker said."If we have a lot of wind and a lot of surge, it can look like the ocean out there, so that's a problem.""We don't operate when it's going to endanger passengers and or damage vessels," Bierman said. It is not uncommon for one or two tropical storms, or even hurricanes, to develop right off the East Coast each year, National Hurricane Center Director Michael Brennan said.
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