Rough surf and coastal flooding from Erin overtake Northeast beaches

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Hurricane Erin's impacts have stretched up the East Coast, leaving even beaches in New Jersey completely covered with water, as AccuWeather's Melissa Constanzer shows.

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00:00We're here in Ocean City, New Jersey, where the concern this week has largely

00:04been about the surface has been rough all week. But now with Hurricane Aaron

00:08offshore, you can see how those waves have really amplified and they remain

00:12high through tonight into tomorrow. In fact, Friday, we're expecting those

00:16waves to say around more than six feet with height. So that's going to be one

00:20of the challenges and why swimming has been more restricted here in Ocean City,

00:24New Jersey for all of the visitors on top of it. If you are trying to head to

00:28the beach, well, there's not much beach to go to. I mean, just take a look

00:32around me. I'm surrounded by water. The water has come in. Hurricane Aaron has

00:36pushed this water right up to the dune. So there's really no spot to sit on the

00:41beach, leaving visitors without the chance to even just throw a ball on the

00:44sand. And the concern through this evening will be that risk for coastal

00:48flooding. So basically, Hurricane Aaron is offshore and in southern New Jersey

00:52in particular, you get a nice wind direction to really lock in the water

00:56into the back bays. So we'll find coastal flooding coming from the bayside

01:00forward to these barrier islands that will be challenging tourists. That's been

01:04the main concern from the Ocean City officials throughout today into this

01:08evening is that they want the visitors to take precautions for the risk of

01:12coastal flooding as we go through this evening. From Ocean City, New Jersey, I'm

01:16Melissa Constanzer for AccuWeather.

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