Summer celebrations meet closed beaches and warnings on US East Coast due to Hurricane Erin

Erin brings coastal flooding to North Carolina, Virginia

Hurricane Erin has brought coastal flooding to North Carolina and Virginia as it made its closest approach to the US mainland.

Hurricane Erin tracks toward New Hampshire, Maine: Closes some beaches to swimming

While the storm is not expected to make landfall, the New Hampshire and Maine coasts are experiencing dangerous conditions.

Erin stays offshore but slams East Coast with massive surf, flooding fears

Erin remains a Category 2 hurricane heading north in the Atlantic. Its vast wind field is churning up dangerous surf and flooding from North Carolina to New York. Evacuations and beach closures are in place as roads and ferries are disrupted.

Hurricane Erin causing dangerous surf and flooding as it brushes U.S. coast

On Thursday, Hurricane Erin was several hundred miles off the coast of North Carolina and pushing storm surge and deadly rip currents toward the shore. Two other systems may form right behind.

Hurricane Erin picks up steam off the coast

RODANTHE, N.C. — Hurricane Erin began strengthening again Wednesday as it crept closer to the mid-Atlantic coast, its outer bands brushing North Carolina's Outer Banks as beaches closed across much of the U.S. East Coast.

Hurricane Erin brings coastal flooding to N. Carolina, Virginia

Hurricane Erin brought coastal flooding to parts of North Carolina and Virginia as it made its closest approach to the US mainland early Thursday.