They've ordered mandatory evacuations of the NC Outer Banks now for tourists. Timing! We were discussing during our stay last week, that if we left it until a week later we wouldn't have had all the rain we had during our stay (it wasn't that bad looking back). Happy now we chose the week we did. http://www2.wnct.com/weather/2010/sep/01/67/hurricane-earl-move-gaining-strength-ar-354686/