LATEST: Hurricane Isaias makes landfall around 11:10pET near Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina, with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph, NHC reports.
Warnings or watches or other alerts associated with the storm stretched up the East Coast late Monday, from South Carolina to Maine.
Tropical storm warnings extended to parts of New Hampshire."We are taking it seriously and you should too,” state Homeland Security and Emergency Management Director Jennifer Harper said in a statement. In Horry County, South Carolina, home of Myrtle Beach, a public safety official said that whether the storm is a tropical storm or a hurricane likely will not matter much for the region.
"If it comes in at 70 miles an hour or 75 miles an hour, the impacts will be identical," Horry County Assistant Administrator for Public Safety Randy Webster said at a news conference Monday. "We are prepared. We have taken all of the steps that we need to take," Webster said. No evacuation orders had been issued, but he urged residents to take the storm seriously, adding that a considerable storm surge, with 3 to 5 feet along beachfront areas.
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