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Hurricane Erin is moving away from the North Carolina coast but still causing dangerous conditions.

Coastal flooding, high surf, and rip currents continue to threaten North Carolina's coast.

Some areas of Highway 12 are closed due to flooding, and evacuations have been ordered.

While Erin is not expected to make landfall, its large wind field is causing significant impacts.

Hurricane Erin unleashed powerful waves and rip currents along the East Coast, threatening beachfront homes and flooding roads as authorities urged people to stay out of the water. At its closest, the storm’s center was about 200 miles off Cape Hatteras.

The National Hurricane Center warned that roads on the low-lying barrier islands could become impassable, with waves of 15 to 20 feet crash

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