Tropical weather system spares North Carolina’s Outer Banks
RODANTHE, N.C. — North Carolina’s Outer Banks have been spared from a tropical storm system that has been moving toward the state for two days, an official said Wednesday.
Dare County Emergency Management Director Drew Pearson write in an email that the tropical depression resulted in “no impacts” on coastal areas such as Cape Hatteras.
A hotel manager on Ocracoke Island says residents and tourists experienced less than an inch of rain. Byron Miller, manager of The Ocracoke Harbor Inn, said in a telephone interview that “it’s just a normal day.”
Early forecasts had indicated the system could drench the state with up to 5 inches of rain before it curved out to sea.