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CHRISTIANSTED, U.S. Virgin Islands — Hurricane Omar fell apart at sea Thursday after delivering a glancing blow to the U.S. Virgin Islands and drenching the most populated island of St. Croix.
The powerful core of the storm passed overnight between St. Martin and the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, said Lixion Avila, a hurricane specialist with the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.
“It could have been worse,” Avila said. “They were very, very lucky.”
Omar was taking an unusual southwest-to-northeast track toward the central North Atlantic, well away from the U.S. mainland.
