They could be dangerous,” said Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone. “If they do not leave the island today, they will be stuck on the island and we do not know what kind of conditions they may be facing. After that, officials said, there may be no way out for people who decide to ride out the storm. Residents and visitors alike were urged to evacuate the last boats out will leave at 10:40 p.m. The population of Fire Island, a narrow strip of sandy villages barely above sea level off Long Island’s southern coast, swells during the summer season. Some of the most important repairs from that storm have been completed, but many projects designed to protect against future storms remain unfinished. New York hasn’t had a direct hit from a powerful cyclone since Superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc in 2012. Henri was veering a bit further west than originally expected, and if that track holds, it would have eastern Long Island in its bull's-eye rather than New England, which hasn't taken a direct hit from a hurricane since Hurricane Bob in 1991, a Category 2 storm that killed at least 17 people. Intense winds and potentially dangerous tidal surges were expected as far east as Cape Cod and as far west as the New Jersey shore, and utilities warned ensuing power outages could last a week or even more. The storm’s latest track put it course to collide Sunday with a long stretch of coastline, with hurricane warnings extending from near the old whaling port of New Bedford, Massachusetts, across the luxurious oceanfront estates of New York’s Hamptons, to the summer getaway of Fire Island. Preparations for a storm grew more urgent Saturday as the newly upgraded Hurricane Henri closed in on the Northeast.
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