Right now, the weather station in Duck, NC is reporting the wind is 18 mph.
http://www.wunderground.com/US/NC/Duck.html
The weather station in Norfolk, VA is reporting the wind is 16 mph.
http://www.wunderground.com/US/VA/Norfolk.html
Not much of a hurricane.
It’s not just the wind you need to worry about but the rain and storm surge. That storm was huge and pushing a lot of water. People found out with Ike, Rita and Katrina that diminished winds doesn’t mean lower storm surge in large storms.
Ike hit 100 miles west of Rita but the storm surge for Ike was 2 feet higher in the Rita impact area. I had friends and family get wiped out twice from the two storms.