We are now officially in peak hurricane season, and a storm in the Atlantic is expected to become Hurricane Erin sometime this week. At the same time, the Trump administration has threatened to dismantle the federal departments that track major storms and help tell North Carolinians how to keep safe.
Congresswoman Deborah Ross and state officials held a recent round-table discussion to highlight the importance of federal hurricane data and to warn folks never to turn off their alerts during a storm.
