hurricane bill

Large waves, rough seas and strong rip currents spawned by Hurricane Bill kept most beachgoers and surfers out of the water along the New Jersey coast on Saturday, putting a damper on one of the last weekends of the summer season.

Hurricane Bill generated surf and high tides that inundated Fire Island's beaches on Aug.

A 7-year-old girl died after a large ocean wave kicked up by Hurricane Bill knocked her and two other people into the Atlantic off Maine's Acadia National Park on Sunday, a park official said.

Rangers at Acadia National Park insisted Monday that they had done all they could to warn visitors before beauty suddenly turned brutal, launching a hurricane-generated wave over a group of gawkers, dragging several into the roiling Atlantic and killing a 7-year-old girl .

A yacht is lifted out of the water in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, in preparationA for the arrival of Hurricane Bill.

Hurricane Bill trekked north towards eastern Canada on Saturday, buffeting the U.S. East Coast with dangerous heavy swells after brushing Bermuda with rain and powerful churning surf.

Hurricane Bill was intensifying over the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday with 135 mph winds that made it a Category 4 storm, forecasters in Miami said.

Hurricane Bill weakened slightly early Friday but still threatened to flood Bermuda's coastlines and generate dangerous waves and riptides along the eastern U.S. coast.

A woman walks past an uprooted tree in Halifax Monday, Sept. 29, 2003 after the passage of hurricane Juan.

Bermuda issued a tropical storm warning Thursday as Hurricane Bill regained some of its muscle, while dangerous waves and riptides were likely along most of the eastern U.S. coast over the weekend.