Hurricane Erin, a Category 2 storm, is continuing to inch closer to the United States.

Hurricane Erin strengthened overnight to a Category 4 hurricane and will make its turn to the north Aug. 18, according to the National Hurricane Center.

“When assessing how people in the US lost their lives from the last 10 years due to tropical storms and hurricanes about 12% of them were due to rip currents,” according to Cassandra Mora, meteorolog...