(20 Aug 2025)
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Buxton, North Carolina – 20 August 2025
1. Wide of high water sign in Hatteras Island
2. Close up of a sign that says "Have Faith"
3. Wide of ocean overwash blocking roadway
4. Wide of caution tape in front of houses
5. Wide of group of people at restaurant
6. Wide of pooled water
7. Wide of people at restaurant
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Christian Grey Hanburger, 23, lives in Avon, North Carolina:
"I didn’t leave because all my friends are still here and it looks like it’s going to be mainly ocean side flooding. And if it’s only ocean side floodng, I live on the sound side and I’ve got a creek right by my house so I should be good. So I didn’t see a big threat."
9. Tight on a neon saying saying "open"
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Christian Grey Hanburger, 23, lives in Avon, North Carolina:
"But at this rate, it’s looking like it’s going to stay off the coast. We’re going to get some ocean overwash and everybody can handle that."
Reporter: "So how are you spending your time today?"
Hanburger: "Oh, well, you can’t pan the camera. But if you look around, all my friends are here. We’re just enjoying a couple of beers in the nice weather before it starts raining. And yeah."
11. Mid of Christian Gray Hanburger laughing with friends
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacob Throne, 34, lives in Avon, North Carolina:
"I don’t really pretend to be a weatherman and like know what’s going to go on. It doesn’t seem that bad, maybe, maybe some like flooding on the roads and stuff like that. But as I said, I ain’t no weatherman."
13. Wide of a road
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Melinda Meadows, lives in Buxton, NC:
"This I think is by far the worst. Um I’m anxious. So it’s …We.. we went through Lee last year, Adelia , Ophelia, 2 weeks apart. It was kind of rough but nothing like this.We’re used to the overwash you, know, that’s that’s kind of the (unintelligible). But this much outside of (unintelligible) season, this is a lot."
14. Tight on a sign that says "Home of the Hurricanes"
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacob Throne, 34, lives in Avon, North Carolina:
"If the roads like wash over, I mean, best case scenario is we get to have some fun empty waves to ourselves."
16, Wide of an American flag
AP video by Allen G. Breed
STORYLINE:
Hurricane Erin began strengthening again Wednesday while creeping toward the mid-Atlantic coast and churning up menacing waves that have closed beaches from the Carolinas to New York City.
Forecasters expect the storm to peak over the next 48 hours and say it could re-intensify into a major hurricane by Wednesday night.
While Erin is unlikely to make landfall along the East Coast before turning farther out to sea, authorities expect its large swells will cut off roads to villages and vacation homes on North Carolina’s Outer Banks and whip up life-threatening rip currents from Florida to New England.
Despite the beach closures, some swimmers were continuing to ignore the warnings. Rescuers saved more than a dozen people caught in rip currents Tuesday at Wrightsville Beach in North Carolina — a day after more than 80 people were rescued.
The biggest threat remained along the Outer Banks where longtime residents who stayed behind didn’t seem concerned.
At Pop’s Raw Bar, in Buxton, North Carolina, locals enjoyed beer and the warm weather for as long as they could before the rain arrived.
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