Heightening anxieties , the National Weather Service said a tropical storm forming near Cape Fear in North Carolina would bring more precipitation and heavy winds up the Atlantic coast to the lowlands of eastern Maryland and Northern Virginia , which in the past few days have been battered by storms and flooding .
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