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Article: Tropical storm Hanna hits U.S. east coast without causing major damage
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- September 6, 2008
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Tropical storm Hanna hits U.S. east coast without causing major
damage
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- Tropical Storm Hanna landed on
the U.S. east coast early Saturday and is moving northeast, and no
major damage has been reported so far.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC), the storm made landfall
near the border of South Carolina and North Carolina around 3:20
a.m. (720 GMT) in the morning and its maximum sustained winds
decreased to 80.5 kilometers per hour.
About 10,000 South Carolina homes were without power due to the
storm, while 444 South Carolina residents were staying in 15
shelters. In North Carolina, nearly 12,000 homes had no electricity,
mostly in the counties near the ...