How to Make a Disaster Plan

Having long, medium and short term goals can help ease your mind.

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For Two or Three Days, a Surfer’s Paradise in New York City

Thanks to Hurricane Erin, conditions are ideal for the urban surfer: giant waves and no swimmers.

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Tracking the Aftermath From Erin on the Ocean

Meteorologists piece together the aftereffects in a hurricane’s path, and look ahead to potential future storms.

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Hurricane Erin Is Heading Out to Sea. People Are Riveted Anyway.

The Category 2 hurricane isn’t expected to make landfall. Still, it’s drawing notice as the first named storm to reach hurricane strength this year.

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Europe Watches as Hurricane Erin Crosses the Atlantic

It won’t be a hurricane much longer, but the storm could still make an impact next week.

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The Climate Factors Driving Hurricane Erin

Global warming is changing the way storms behave.

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North Carolina Beach Towns Brace for Dangerous Seas From Hurricane Erin

Most of the tourists have left Ocracoke Island, and the surfers are watching closely as deadly rip currents lurk below the waves.

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Hurricane Erin Brings Rip Currents Closing Jersey Shore and Rehoboth Beaches

Several beaches in New Jersey and Delaware were closed on Monday as the powerful storm churned in the Atlantic. Rip currents have been blamed for at least one death.

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What Hurricane Models Say About Tropical Storm Erin

The storm’s likely path is coming into focus, but a lot can still change. Here’s what the forecasters look at.

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I Never Understood Our Data-Saturated Life Until a Hurricane Shut It Down

When Helene disconnected my part of North Carolina for weeks, my neighbors and I had to relearn old ways of knowing what was happening — and what wasn’t.

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