Environment

Brace for a Stormy Labor Day on the East Coast

Flooding, beach erosion, maybe tornadoes… Hermine’s got it all.
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Ah, Labor Day: A time to relax on the sand, while beach chairs fly around like banshees and crabs tremble in their holes beneath thundering surf.

OK, so this holiday weekend isn’t like most, with Hurricane-turned-Tropical Storm Hermine making its way through Florida and up the East Coast. Anybody attempting to get some beach time might be carried into coastal neighborhoods on huge waves... not that these guys in the Florida Keys care about that: