Tropical Storm Hermine will ruin holiday weekend plans from Virginia to Connecticut

Damage from Tropical Storm Hermine in Florida
(Image credit: Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images)

Vacationers hoping to enjoy a final weekend of summer at Mid-Atlantic beaches will be sorely disappointed this Labor Day weekend, as Tropical Storm Hermine will drench coastal areas with heavy rains and potential flooding over the next few days.

After beginning as a Category 1 hurricane in Florida on Friday, the storm was downgraded when winds slowed but still left tens of thousands without power in the Carolinas. Now it is moving northward and may pick up enough speed to be classified as a hurricane once again.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.