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Tropical Storm Cristobal rumbles off the Carolinas
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-07-20 11:50 Eastern North Carolina is under a moderate drought while areas along South Carolina's northern coast are considered abnormally dry, according to the US Drought Monitor. Officials have blamed the drought for a huge wildfire that has charred more than 40,000 acres in eastern North Carolina since it began June 1 with a lightning strike. Elsewhere Saturday, Hurricane Fausto strengthened far off Mexico's Pacific coast, while Hurricane Bertha raced rapidly to the northeast over the North Atlantic, hundreds of miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. Neither of those storms currently threaten land. Bertha had blustered across Bermuda earlier this week, knocking out electricity to thousands there. |
