Source: Cammie Bellamy, WILMINGTON STAR-NEWS, 8/9/17

We’ve heard a few rumblings this 2017 hurricane season, but so far the seas have stayed calm in Southeastern North Carolina. The season, which started June 1 and will end Nov. 30, is not yet halfway over. The closest a tropical system has come to the Cape Fear coast was Tropical Storm Emily, which formed in the Gulf on Mexico and made landfall near Tampa Bay early this month before crossing Florida and heading northeast. Emily caused minimal damage and flooding in parts of Florida, then dissipated in the Atlantic.

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