NC's got its hurricane act together!

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Hurricane warnings and evacuations issued

With many people on edge because of Hurricane Katrina, all residents and visitors were ordered to evacuate Hatteras Island in the Outer Banks on Tuesday, visitors already had been ordered off Ocracoke Island and 300 National Guard troops were on duty along the coast. The National Park Service closed the Cape Hatteras lighthouse and the Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills. Schools were closed in several coastal counties in both North and South Carolina.

And last, but not least, words from what will surely be Ophelia's first victims.

However, few people heeded Sanford's call. "If it's bad, of course we'll leave," Sandra Hunecutt of Denver, N.C., said at Myrtle Beach, S.C. But "this is our vacation."

The governor was on the news a bit ago and also mentioned that FEMA IS on the ground here and ready to go to work.

 

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I have to say when I lived in N.C. they always had their crap straight before a hurricane. Haven't had a problem being down here in Florida yet. They have pretty much been on top of things here too.