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From Maryland Emergency Management: While hurricanes are unusual in Maryland, we sometimes sustain damage – and some fatalities – from the tropical storms that follow in their wake. Agnes in 1972, Floyd in 1999 and Isabel in 2003 are some of the hurricanes-turned-tropical-storms that have caused significant damage in Maryland in recent history.
With the uncertainty of the massive storm, now with the Hurricane Hunters measuring sustained winds of 159 miles per hour and the stalled cold front that weather officials were hoping would push the storm back out to sea losing the race to the east coast, Earl could hit the Outer Banks of North Carolina by late today. The track as predicted now will keep the storm bouncing all along the east coast with a direct landfall now predicted in Southeastern Mass. Hurricane force winds are currently 100 miles out from the 30-mile wide well-formed eye and Tropical Storm force winds currently extending over 200 miles out from the eye, the likelyhood of a severe wind event here in Maryland grows.
Those storms frequently cause flooding, coastal storm surge and wind damage and often spawn tornadoes and thunderstorms. Wide-spread power outages are common after a hurricane.
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