It's important to note that there could still be damaging high wind gusts at higher elevations. With some rain soaking the ground and old growth trees around where people live you could have people killed or seriously injured by falling trees. And there is the flash flood threat potential too. I don't know how much it takes in valleys in that area. I don't know how the mountains might contribute as well to increasing the rainfall totals on some sides. Pulses of convection could continue to fire at the center and if the LLC goes south of the islands, moisture would be drawn across the chain, rather than the previous storm whose convection was drawn yet further away.
And of course as always, rip currents. People should know to swim perpendicular to the direction the current takes them and not fight the current. Get out of the current that way and then swim back to shore. Always swim with a friend if you are absolutely going to go swimming. A friend should also be on the beach too with a cell phone, especially in an area without a lifeguard.
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