Hurricane Erin is expected to impact the Outer Banks in North Carolina, sending massive waves crashing into the barrier islands.

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During Hurricane Katrina, thousands of people evacuated to the Shreveport area. Most left behind everything including prescriptions and medical records.

Tropical Storm Fernand was headed into open waters of the central Atlantic well east and northeast of Bermuda, the National Hurricane Center said.

Beaches were beginning to reopen Friday after Erin, twice the size of an average hurricane, had weakened into a post-tropical cyclone far from land, the National Hurricane Center in Miami had said.

The National Hurricane Center continued to track Tropical Storm Fernand in the central Atlantic on Monday, but the Gulf remained very quiet as the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season approaches. There were no storms expected to develop in the Gulf in at least the next seven days, according to hurricane center forecasts.

In recent years, NOAA'S National Hurricane Center reported an increased tropical track accuracy by at least 75%, citing improvements to satellite data, and weather instrumentation.