Hurricane Erin Forces Evacuations in North Carolina as Category 4 Storm Threatens East Coast

by Emmitt Barry, with reporting from Washington D.C. Bureau Staff(Worthy News) – Powerful Hurricane Erin, the first major storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, continues to churn across the Atlantic as a dangerous Category 4 hurricane, prompting local states of emergency and mandatory evacuations along North Carolina’s Outer Banks.The monster storm rapidly intensified over the weekend, exploding from a Category 1 to a catastrophic Category 5 with winds of 160 mph in under 30 h