NAGS HEAD, N.C. (AP) ? State transportation officials suspended all ferry service to Ocracoke Island on North Carolina's Outer Banks on Saturday, leaving hundreds of residents and guests no way to reach higher ground as Hurricane Sandy threatened the coast with heavy winds and rain. Hyde County manager Mazie Smith said in a statement that unsafe travel conditions and flooding on N.C. 12 ? the main artery for traffic on the Outer Banks ? forced the county to suspend emergency ground transportation. The N.C. Department of Transportation suspended ferry service to Ocracoke Island, leaving residents and visitors without access to the mainland or to Hatteras Island, which is about 50 miles south of Nags Head. The 11 p.m. Saturday advisory from the National Hurricane Center placed the center of Sandy about 360 miles east-southeast of Charleston, S.C. A tropical storm warning remained in effect from the South Santee River in South Carolina to Duck, N.C., including the Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds. A tropical storm watch was lifted for the S.C. coast south of the South Santee River. South of Ocracoke, a group of people was forced to wait out the storm on Portsmouth Island, a former fishing village that is now uninhabited and accessible only by private ferry. Rowley said the U.S. Coast Guard was to bring supplies to the people riding out the storm, adding that the group is making the best of their situation.
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