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The leading edge of Hurricane Floyd brought heavy rains and tornadoes yesterday as the East Coast braced
for the storm’s impending landfall.
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — The leading edge of
Hurricane Floyd knocked out power, flooded streets with
drenching rain and spun off tornadoes last night as the
Carolinas braced for a direct hit from the storm.
Its howling winds reduced to a still-dangerous 115
mph, Floyd moved north toward the mostly evacu
ated area between Myrtle Beach and Wilmington,
N.C., after delivering only a glancing blow to Flori
da and Georgia earlier in the day.
Altogether, authorities have urged more than 2.6
million people along the southern Atlantic coast to
clear out of Floyd’s path — the biggest peacetime
evacuation in United States history.
At 8 p.m. EOT, Floyd was 150 miles south-south-
west of Wilmington. The storm’s center was mov
ing north at 17 mph and was expected to roll ashore
before daybreak today.
By nightfall yesterday, hurricane-strength gusts of
79 mph were buffeting Charleston, S.C., and more
than 100,000 people in the area lost power. Several
tornadoes struck near Wilmington, destroying one
home and damaging seven.
Earlier, in northern and central Florida, Floyd
snapped power lines, smashed piers into driftwood
and knocked out electricity to 300,000 people. About
350 miles off the coast, the Coast Guard rescued
eight people whose tugboat sank in 30-foot seas
churned up by the hurricane.
But Floyd made a northward turn that spared
Florida and Georgia the catastrophic damage many
had feared. NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and its
four shuttles were largely unscathed.
The Carolinas, however, lay directly in the hurri
cane’s path.
“I know that Florida and Georgia at this point feel
like they’ve dodged a real bullet,” North Carolina
public safety secretary Richard Moore said. “This
thing is not going to miss us.”
Myrtle Beach, a usually bustling resort, was a vir
tual ghost town as people fled or stayed indoors, and
highways were jammed around Wilmington. In both
Carolinas, many hurricane-hardened people who
rode out earlier storms left this time.
Terry Hurley, checking into a Wilmington shelter
with his wife and two children, said his family
stayed home for Hurricanes Fran and Bertha in 1996,
but not for Floyd.
“They talk like this one is going to be pretty
mean,” he said. “It’s got everybody shook up.”
Myrtle Beach authorities imposed a 3 p.m. cur
few and turned off the water supply. The hospital
sent its patients inland but kept a doctor and three
nurses on emergency duty.
South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges banned price
Storm surge
Here is a look at the expected
storm surge from Hurricane Floyd
through midday Thursday.
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AP/Carl Fox
gouging on essential items, threatening fines up to
$100 or 30 days in jail.
The last time South Carolina took a direct hit from
a major hurricane was almost exactly 10 years ago,
when Hugo struck near Charleston with 135 mph
winds. The storm killed 29 people and caused $5.9
billion in damage.
Floyd weakened slightly yesterday to a Category 3
storm, its winds down from a peak of nearly 155 mph
when it battered the Bahamas. The storm’s hurricane-
force winds extended 140 miles from its center.
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