“Please join me in praying that the\u00a0Outer Banks\u00a0and all the other communities in the hurricane’s path are spared from major damage,” asked Tom Crabtree, anchor at WSPA-TV News in Spartanburg, S.C., Thursday night.<\/p>\n
“My heart goes out to the beautiful Outer Banks of my native North Carolina. I pray the impact of Hurricane Irene this Saturday will be minor. All of us have favorite places we visit or vacation, and for me, that place is the Outer Banks.”<\/p>\n
Crabtree anchors the 5, 5:30, 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts on the station.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Irene appears aimed at the offshore islands of North Carolina — including Kill Devil Hills where the Wright Brothers made their first manned flights.<\/p>\n
Also in the storm’s crosshairs is Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay. The U.S. Navy sent 30 warships, including the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise<\/em> to sea Thursday — getting America’s Second Fleet out of the path of the approaching hurricane.<\/p>\n In Norfolk, Virginia, the Beliefnet staff began making plans to head inland. Several live in low-lying areas under mandatory evacuation orders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Please join me in praying that the\u00a0Outer Banks\u00a0and all the other communities in the hurricane’s path are spared from major damage,” asked Tom Crabtree, anchor at WSPA-TV News in Spartanburg, S.C., Thursday night. “My heart goes out to the beautiful Outer Banks of my native North Carolina. I pray the impact of Hurricane Irene this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1488],"class_list":["post-6569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hurricane-irene"],"yoast_head":"\n