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                                                                                                            September 3, 2016
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Hermine Heads North

After Slamming Florida, Hermine Threatens East Coast

Brothers Trey Bowers,10 and Tyler Bowers,12, are splashed with salt water from a crashing wave from Tropical Storm Hermine, Friday, Sept. 2, 2016, in Charleston,
S.C.

                                                                                                                                                                      (AP Photo/The Post and Courier, Grace Beahm)

Associated Press                  Coast with heavy rain, high  lantic Ocean. The system     National Hurricane Center.   out power statewide and
DEKLE BEACH, Fla. (AP) —          winds and flooding.          could then lash coastal      In Florida, Hermine’s main   more than 107,000 in neigh-
The first hurricane to hit Flor-  Hermine (her-MEEN) quick-    areas as far north as Con-   impact came in the form of   boring Georgia, officials
ida in more than a decade         ly weakened to a tropical    necticut and Rhode Island    power outages and dam-       said. At 5 p.m., the storm
wiped away beachside              storm as it spun through     through Labor Day.           age from storm surges. A     was centered 30 miles
buildings and toppled trees       Georgia and the Carolinas.   “Anyone along the  U.S.      homeless man south of        southwest of Charleston,
onto homes Friday before          But the National Hurricane   East Coast needs to be       Gainesville died when a      South Carolina, and mov-
plowing inland on a path          Center predicted it would    paying close attention this  tree fell on him, Gov. Rick  ing northeast at 20 mph.
that could send it rolling up     regain hurricane strength    weekend,” said Dennis Felt-  Scott said. An estimated
the densely populated East        after emerging over the At-  gen, a spokesman for the     325,000 people were with-          Continued on Page 4