Irene Threatens North Carolina Prompting Evacuations From Coast

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Colleen Horodnik is going “to run ahead of the storm” by leaving a Bogue Sound vacation home in North Carolina a day early, making way for Hurricane Irene.

“We’re going to close up the house, batten down the hatches and head home” to West Milford, New Jersey, said Horodnik, reading a book as the sun set and her husband, Walter, fished from a pier in the beach town of Emerald Isle. “It could be really bad.”