Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Tropical Storm Hanna set to soak East Coast

Residents watched increasingly bleak skies and beach vacationers prepared to pack up and head inland Friday as Tropical Storm Hanna cruised toward the coasts of North and South Carolina.

The storm, which earlier hung off the coast of Haiti for several days, causing widespread flooding and at least 137 deaths, has only a slight chance of becoming a small hurricane before crashing ashore overnight, forecasters said.

The latest storm will likely wash out the weekend from the Carolinas to Maine. Tropical storm watches or warnings ran from Georgia to Rhode Island.

Even worse, there's another storm _ Hurricane Ike, now a Category 3 hurricane _ that …

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