CTReaderEast.com Local News, Read all about it!: Hurricane warning issued for Mass. as East Coast braces for weekend pounding by Earl Hurricane warning issued for Mass. as East Coast braces for weekend pounding by Earl ================================================================================ Feeder on 02 September, 2010 05:56:00 BUXTON, N.C. (AP) — Hurricane Earl packed winds near 140 mph as it blew toward North Carolina on Thursday, putting the Eastern Seaboard all the way to Maine on alert for a Labor Day weekend pounding by waves, gales and rain.