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NAGS HEAD, N.C. (AP) — Tropical Storm Gabrielle began to
shower North Carolina's Outer Banks with rain and batter
them with high winds Sunday as the storm slogged slowly
toward the coast.
Forecasters expected the storm to increase its wind speed
slightly — though not to hurricane levels — before
swiping the state's barrier islands on Sunday. After a brief
landfall, Gabrielle was expected to take a sharp turn back
into the Atlantic, the National Weather Service said.
"All things considered, it's a pretty weak storm,"
said Casey Quell, a NWS forecaster in Morehead City.
"More than anything, it will bring some much-needed
rain."
The storm carried top sustained winds of about 45 mph as of
5 a.m. Sunday, the National Weather Service reported. But
those winds could strengthen to near 50 mph as Gabrielle
nears the coast, according to the weather service.
Gabrielle's center was located about 50 miles southeast of
Cape Lookout and was moving slowly — about 10 mph — to
the north-northwest.
Forecasters issued a tropical storm warning for the North
Carolina coastline north of Surf City through the Outer
Banks and to the Virginia border. A tropical storm warning
was also issued northward to Cape Charles Light, Va., along
the Atlantic Coast, and a watch remains in effect for the
area extending to New Point Comfort peninsula, along the
Chesapeake Bay.
Local officials urged residents and visitors at the vacation
hotspot to secure loose items and to stay indoors as the
storm blows through.
Austin Lucas, a manager at Howard's Pub on Ocracoke Island,
said workers there tied down furniture that was on the roof.
But beyond that, he said everyone was just waiting to see
when the storm would come.
"We haven't really taken any severe precautions,"
Lucas said Sunday morning. "Nobody's too concerned
about it."
The National Park Service closed all campgrounds on the Cape
Hatteras National Seashore. But they did not ask or
recommend that people leave the islands.
"When people hear about tropical storms, they assume
houses are going to fall in the ocean," said Margot
Jolly, a lifeguard with Nags Heads Ocean Rescue. "They
shouldn't overreact like that. Just relax, stay inside, and
have a little hurricane party."
Gabrielle's first showers reached the coastline late
Saturday night. Quell said the storm could produce a storm
surge of up to 3 feet, with 1 to 3 inches of rain falling in
coastal areas and up to 5 inches in isolated spots.
"The greatest danger will be flooding in low lying
areas and on roads, such as Highway 12 on the Outer
Banks," said North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley. "The
most deaths during tropical storms occur when people drive
into flood waters and drown. Rip currents will be strong in
the ocean."
Rip currents had already caused problems Saturday. David
Baker, the Ocean Rescue director for the Wrightsville Beach
Fire Department about 150 miles south of Nags Head, told The
Star-News of Wilmington that lifeguards rescued about a
dozen people from the water because of rip currents.
Gabrielle spun into the storm late Friday after wandering in
the Atlantic for several days, caught along an old frontal
boundary that stalled about midway between the Southeast
coast and Bermuda. Forecasters first labeled it a
subtropical storm — a hybrid system that takes power from
warm ocean waters but also forms from warm and cold fronts
colliding — before classifying it a tropical system
Saturday.
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"We've been asking residents to be prepared for
anything," said Chris Baucom, a spokesman for Dare
County Emergency Management. "This storm's track has
been kind of unpredictable."
All of North Carolina's counties are facing drought
conditions, with 91 percent under a severe drought. Easley
asked Friday that all the state's local governments
immediately enact voluntary or mandatory water restrictions.
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