Hurricane Erin’s outer bands are pounding Long Island’s South Shore, sending surging tides, towering waves and life-threatening rip currents Wednesday evening onto beaches already closed to swimming.

Restrictions are going into effect at beaches all across Long Island's South Shore in preparation for Hurricane Erin to pass to our east. Here are the latest updates as of Wednesday morning. Gov.

You can put the beach umbrellas away for the next couple of days. Beaches across the South Shore of Long Island have been closed to swimming as Hurricane Erin churns off the Atlantic coast, bringing ...

Hurricane Erin passed offshore Thursday evening, but its effects were felt all along Long Island’s south shore. Massive waves and unusually high tides turned popular beaches into temporary lakes. At ...