BUXTON, N.C. (AP) - Hurricane Earl is moving on up the East Coast after sideswiping North Carolina's Outer Banks.
It flooded roads on the narrow vacation islands and caused some power outages, but there are no reports so far of any injuries or major damage.
At first light, 1 to 2 feet of water covered roads in the community of Buxton on Cape Hatteras.
The area got some heavy rain, but the hurricane-force winds apparently stayed offshore. At its closest approach, its center passed about 85 miles east of Cape Hatteras.
At 8 a.m. Eastern time, Earl was about 130 miles northeast of Cape Hatteras, moving northeast at 18 miles an hour. Its winds sustained winds were 105 miles an hour.
Earl is expected to continue stirring up dangerous surf and rip currents along the East Coast. Forecasters expect it to stay 100 to 200 miles off New Jersey and New York's Long Island but pass very close to Cape Cod and Nantucket Island, Mass.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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