Although Hurricane Erin is not expected to make landfall, Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., said Wednesday on Newsmax that people still need to “listen and take caution” when it comes to the massive storm.
“It gets to be this time of year that people start looking at the television, looking at The Weather Channel a lot more, seeing what’s going on and so it’s a feeling of, hey, we’ve been through this before,” Murphy told “Wake Up America.” “But the problem with some of that is reluctance, reticence to actually do something about it. I mean, there was a mandatory evacuation out on Ocracoke and Hatteras islands. A lot of folks who say, ‘Hey, my family’s been through this for generations and generations. We’re staying.’ And while this particular storm may not do anything other than storm surge, it’s kind of difficult to tell those people, ‘Hey, look, you really need to take this seriously.'”
Murphy said that the storm will produce “a lot of overwash” on Highway 12, which connects the islands and peninsulas of the norther Outer Banks, as well as “significant erosion” and “significant damage.”
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