"At least six North Carolina counties ordered mandatory evacuations of some areas and seven others had voluntary evacuations.
Along the exposed Outer Banks chain, all residents and visitors were ordered to evacuate Hatteras Island on Tuesday, visitors had been ordered off Ocracoke Island and the National Park Service closed the Cape Hatteras lighthouse and the Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills.
Schools were closed in several coastal counties in both North and South Carolina, while classes were canceled at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and East Carolina University in Greenville.
The Air Force sent some aircraft from bases in Virginia and North Carolina to airfields farther inland and moved others into hangars."
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