Greater Nashua
Hurricane Erin leaves rough seas with 2 swimmers dead and a search underway for a missing boater
SALISBURY, Mass. (AP) — Hurricane Erin never made landfall but left behind rough ocean conditions along the U.S. East Coast. At least two people died after they had been swimming in the heavy current, and a search continued Monday for a man who was missing after his boat capsized. Beaches were beginning to reopen Friday after Erin, twice the size of an average hurricane, had weakened into a post-tropical cyclone far from land, but was still capable of causing life-threatening surf and rip currents, the National Hurricane Center in Miami had said. Erin's outer bands had already brushed North Carolina, though it caused no widespread damage. Still, North Carolina’s barrier islands took a beating last week from Erin’s strong winds and swells, leading to breached sand dunes, localized flooding and closures along North Carolina Highway 12, the route linking the Outer Banks to ...
