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Article: VACATIONERS BEAT IT OUT OF BERTHA'S PATH.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- July 12, 1996
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Vacationers streamed hundreds of miles inland for a place to spend the night yesterday as a weakened Hurricane Bertha staggered toward the Carolina shores during the height of the summer season.
``We don't want to take a chance,'' Mary Ann Stibbe of Sylvania, Ohio, said before heading away from Sunset Beach, N.C., where she was vacationing. ``There are certain gambles you don't take in your life, and this is one of them.''
The center of the hurricane will most likely hit Myrtle Beach around noon EDT today with 80 mph winds, but hurricane-force winds will be felt hours earlier along the Carolina coasts, Hurricane Center Deputy Director Jerry Jarrell said. ...