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Hurricane Emily edges up North Carolinian coast
MANTEO, N.C. — Hurricane Emily blew away roofs and swamped the Outer Banks on Tuesday as it slowly brushed by the fragile island chain, pounding the sandy shoreline with 15-foot waves during a mid-moon high tide.
But the hurricane's eye, with 115 mph wind swirling around it, stayed just offshore. Forecasters said it likely would be the storm's closest encounter with the U.S. mainland, though hurricane conditions were expected overnight in southeastern Virginia.
"The house is shaking terribly from the wind and waves. Water is pouring in everywhere, from cracks in the doors and windows and from the roof," Irene Nolan said from her home in the tiny seaside village of Frisco, where she rode out the storm.
"Everything under the house ... is floating down the street with the current." she said.
Hatteras islands lost roofs as wind gusts topped 90 mph, said Dare County emergency management officials, who abandoned their operations center on Hatteras because of flooding.
Cars were floating in a parking lot in Buxton, and fallen trees were blocking roads, said the National Weather Service in Buxton, which also reported flooding in the yard of its office, a mile inland from Pamlico Sound.
Many buildings along Ocracoke and
The extent of the damage would not be known before morning. "It's too dark to say. There's no power down there. But at the crack of dawn, we'll be down there," said Ray Sturza, Dare County spokesman.
But on Oracoke Island, immediately southwest of Hatteras, Hyde County Commissioner David Styron said there did not immediately seem to be a great deal of damage.
"All in, Ocracoke Island came through this one pretty good," said Stvron, who lives on Ocracoke and
weathered the storm there.
The center of the hurricane got as close as about 20 miles due east of Cape Hatteras late Tuesday afternoon, and the eye wall — the region of strongest wind around the calm eye — moved over Hatteras Island, said
strongest wind around the calm eye — moved over Hatteras Island, said Bob Sheets, director of the National Hurricane Center.
No part of the eye crossed land, however. The eye had grown to 45 miles wide Tuesday evening and was 35 to 40 miles due east of Oregon Inlet at 10 p.m.
The slow-moving hurricane passed the Outer Banks as the tide, higher than normal because of the full moon, peaked at about 8 p.m. The storm was expected to create a tidal surge 6 feet to 8 feet high, though the weather service said flooding reports on Hatteras, indicated the surge was even higher.
Bosnians break off peace talks want more land for Muslim state
GENEVA — Bosnian peace talks abruptly broke off yesterday just as it seemed the warring factions were on the verge of a final accord on how to carve up the country.
Bosnian President Aljza Izetbegovic said the peace plan on the table failed to guarantee the survival of a future Muslim state. Other leaders accused Izetbegovic and his government of making unreasonable demands.
"Unfortunately the war will continue," Croatian President Frano Tudjman said as he left the meeting.
But Izeer begovei the Crabt and Serbs were unwilling to offer "most basic compromises", referring to their refusal to give the Muslims access to the sea and more land in northwestern Bosnia.
"It's a tragedy they could not come to a solution," said U.S. special envoy Charles Redman. "They were very close to an agreement but I accept Izetbegovic's reasons."
both izetbegovic and Tudman said they were willing to return to the negotiating table. But Tudman warned that a peaceful settlement would now take "weeks if not months."
European Community mediator Lord Owen voiced fears that fighting now would increase in many parts of Bosnia, particularly central Bosnia where Muslim forces have
been battling Croats in a land grab.
"There is a cease-fire in existence but we have seen that broken in the past five weeks of negotiations," Owen said, "I don't think we should count on that holding."
Just minutes before the breakdown, a peace deal seemed imminent.
The government had scaled back its demands for extra territory for the planned Muslim republic and said it would settle for an additional 4 percent more than what was proposed by international mediators. Izetbegovic had previously pressed for an extra 10 percent.
He also wanted the northwestern town of Prijedor back from the Serbs, a proposal the Serbs apparently rejected.
Izbetgebovic held out for land access to the Adriatic Sea through the Croatian resort of Neum. This proved unacceptable to the Croats, as it would have split Croatia.
Izetebogiv said the only concession the Serbs were willing to make was the widening of a land corridor linking Muslim-populated enclaves in Serb-held eastern Bosnia with the main body of the Muslim republic.
owen and co-mediator Thorvald Stoltenberg had proposed splitting Bosnia-Herzegovina into three ethnic republics linked by a very weak central government.