Isaias Floods Parts Of Mid-Atlantic Coast, Speeding Toward The Northeast

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A truck passes the Sam’s Corner restaurant in Garden City, S.C., on Monday during heavy rains from Hurricane Isaias. Now a tropical storm, Isaias is moving north-northwest along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard.





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Isaias will speed up the East Coast on Tuesday, bringing threats of flash floods and dangerous storm surges, the National Weather Service says.





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After making landfall as a hurricane, Isaias was still packing sustained winds of 70 mph Tuesday morning. The storm — seen here via satellite just before 9 a.m. ET — is projecting tropical storm-force winds outward up to 140 miles.





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After making landfall as a hurricane, Isaias was still packing sustained winds of 70 mph Tuesday morning. The storm — seen here via satellite just before 9 a.m. ET — is projecting tropical storm-force winds outward up to 140 miles.


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Over the past 12 hours, Isaias has put roughly 1,000 miles of the U.S. East Coast under a storm surge warning, from Folly Beach, S.C., near Charleston, to Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. The current outlook warns of a peak surge of 3-5 feet for much of North Carolina’s coastline, and of 1-3 feet for areas to the north, including the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay.

The system is bringing heavy rain and strong winds far inland. In just one hour, Isaias dropped an inch of rain in Raleigh, N.C., the National Weather Service’s office there reported. The city is about 150 miles northwest of Morehead City, on the coast.

As it brings perilous amounts of water, the storm is not expected to linger. By Tuesday night, the weather service says, the center of Isaias will be moving into southern Canada.