Hurricane Season Comes to the Carolinas
Less than a week after Hurricane Gustav kept many of us watching The Weather Channel, hoping New Orleans would be spared a repeat of the flooding damage brought by Hurricane Katrina, those of us in North Carolina are now watching as Tropical Storm Hanna is taking aim at the Carolina coastline.
Many of us here at the UNC Press have either friends or family who live along the North Carolina coastline. As such, this time of the year makes most of us a bit uneasy as we go about our days, hoping for the best. When a storm system like Hanna starts to form, we start paying attention to it early on. We’re all hoping that the storm will stay safely well out at sea.
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Posted: September 5th, 2008 under Coastal Carolina, Hurricanes, Nature, North Carolina, UNC Press News, Weather.
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