On Thursday, Hurricane Erin was several hundred miles off the coast of North Carolina and pushing storm surge and deadly rip currents toward the shore. Two other systems may form right behind.

It may seem shocking, but airplanes can safely navigate hurricanes with proper forecasting. Here's how one Spirit Airlines jet did just that.

Hurricane Erin battered North Carolina's Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway and surged under beachfront homes as the monster storm slowly began to move away from the East Coast on Thursday.

The International Space Station captured the unusually large storm as it swirled near the East Coast of the United States.