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MapLab: To Track a Hurricane
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The east coast of the U.S. is bracing for Hurricane Florence, predicted to make landfall Friday as the most dangerous storm the Carolinas have seen in decades. Historic rainfall, storm surge, and winds threaten millions in the storm’s path. Leaders in North and South Carolina and Virginia, the areas expected to bear the worst impacts, are taking the storm’s threat seriously, with evacuation orders encompassing 1.7 million people across the region.