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Hatteras Island visitors ordered to evacuate as storm threatens Highway 12
Original: Hatteras Island evacuation ordered for visitors as storm threatens N.C. Highway 12
Officials ordered visitors to leave Hatteras Island on North Carolina's Outer Banks as an approaching storm threatens to flood or breach N.C. Highway 12, the island's only highway link to the mainland. Residents are not yet included in the mandatory evacuation order. Highway 12 is frequently cut off by ocean overwash during coastal storms, so authorities are moving early to get tourists out before conditions deteriorate.
Why now: A storm is forecast to threaten the island's sole road link, prompting an evacuation order that affects current visitors.
Hatteras IslandN.C. Highway 12North CarolinaOuter Banks
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