Former Biden Official Ordered Off East Hampton Beach Following Storm

Beaches across the tri-state area reopened Saturday after Hurricane Erin churned past the region.

But the reopening came a day too late for former Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Blinken, 63, was photographed being kicked off East Hampton’s exclusive Georgica Beach while catching rays with a friend on Friday, The New York Post reported.

The beach had been closed days earlier due to dangerous surf conditions triggered by the massive storm.

Photos showed Blinken and his companion on the sand when lifeguards ordered them to leave.

After a short conversation, Blinken — barefoot and wearing a blue long-sleeve shirt with black shorts — packed up his tote bag, beach towel, and folded chair before walking back to the parking lot.

Large waves crashed behind him as he exited the shoreline.

Georgica Beach, located in East Hampton’s Apaquogue neighborhood, is a well-known hotspot for surfers.

Most beaches reopened Saturday, though swimming was still restricted in some locations, officials said.

Earlier in the week, New York state had warned residents to stay away from beaches and the water due to high tides and rip currents, The Daily Mail reported.

Hurricane Erin had exploded into a Category 5 storm in the Caribbean before racing up the Atlantic.

By early Friday, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Erin had weakened to a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph.

The storm was centered about 425 miles south-southwest of Halifax, Nova Scotia, after threading the needle between the East Coast and several islands.

Despite staying offshore, Erin remained unusually large — stretching more than 600 miles wide — and unleashed dangerous surf and rip currents from the Carolinas to New England.

Nantucket’s airport reported winds as high as 45 mph overnight and into Friday.

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority canceled ferry service to and from several Boston-area cities on Friday as conditions worsened.

Several oceanside beaches along Cape Cod’s National Seashore also closed to swimmers and other recreation due to high surf.

The National Weather Service issued coastal flood warnings from the Mid-Atlantic through New England, cautioning that some roads could become impassable.

Tens of thousands of residents were evacuated earlier this week from vulnerable barrier islands in North Carolina as storm surges of up to four feet threatened the region.

The central Outer Banks took the brunt of the storm, with waves up to 20 feet and surges of 2 to 4 feet overwhelming some areas.

On Thursday night, firefighters rescued more than 50 people from cars, restaurants, and bars after tidal flooding swamped Margate City, New Jersey.

Beaches in New York City were closed to swimming Thursday, though more than a dozen surfers still rode the waves at Rockaway Beach in Queens.

Fox Weather meteorologist Cody Braud said the size of Erin meant conditions would take time to calm.

“Even though Hurricane Erin has left our region, because it was such an extremely large storm, it has left a lot of the Atlantic still stirred up,” Braud said.

“There are still a lot of hidden effects and the biggest thing is the high rip current risk that is still present up and down the East Coast.”

Sunday temperatures were expected to remain in the low 80s in New York City and on most of Long Island, with the Jersey Shore in the upper 70s and low 80s.

“It’s starting to get a little cooler too, so it’s probably not the best beach-going weather anyway at the moment,” Braud added.

The National Hurricane Center was also monitoring three additional tropical disturbances forming in the Atlantic.

With thousands of miles of warm water still ahead, meteorologists warned that so-called Cape Verde storms remain some of the most dangerous for North America.

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