Hurricane Earl: a view from the ground
Hurricane Earl continues to wreak havoc as it moves up the East Coast. Despite being downgraded to a Category 3 storm with winds clocked at 125 mph, Earl is expected to majorly disrupt travel plans this Labor Day weekend. We check in with people who are living in areas expected to be hit by the storm.
We speak with Danny Couch, a resident who has refused to evacuate his home on Hatteras Island, a barrier island off of the North Carolina coast. He says his house is designed to be hurricane-proof.
Arlen Allen of Montauk, New York, at the Eastern tip of Long Island, also talks to us about how he’s preparing for Earl. He says he’s taken moves to protect anything that can be moved by the wind. “Hopefully we’ll just weather it out, just fine,” he says.
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