YC beaches to close as Hurricane Erin threatens massive waves, riptides
Swimming will be prohibited in all New York beaches on Wednesday and Thursday while Hurricane Erin threatens to provide dangerous currents and waves of tear as 13 feet on the banks along the east coast.
Mayor Adams and Iris Rodriguez-Rosa, the commissioner of the Parks department, announced the closures scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. In a statement, they said that visitors could access the sand, but cannot enter the water.
“We highly urge all New Yorkers to take these warnings into account and not risk their lives when entering the water,” Rodriguez-Rosa said in a statement.
The rescuers of the parks department and the patrol agents of the application of the laws will be displayed along the city beaches, in particular the Rockaways and Coney Island, to apply the swimming prohibition, according to a press release scattered by the mayor’s office.
Erin is the first Hurricane of the Atlantic this year. The National Weather Service described him as a category 2 storm Tuesday morning when he was north of the Caribbean.
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