Heavy surf on Tuesday afternoon Aug. 20 around high tide is already lapping at the dunes north of the pony pens on Ocracoke, ...

Evacuations were ordered beginning Monday on Hatteras Island on the Outer Banks, the thin stretch of low-lying barrier islands that juts far into the Atlantic.

Tideland Electric Membership Corportation had 11 crew members deployed to Ocracoke to supplement their island workforce.

Hurricane Erin churned slowly toward the eastern U.S. on Tuesday, stirring up treacherous waves that already have led to ...