 The outer bands of Danielle produced heavy rainfall in Puerto Rico , causing street flooding and landslides in Bayamón , Guaynabo , Toa Alta , and Vega Alta ; several streams overflowed their banks , causing additional flooding . In a neighborhood of Bayamón , one house was damaged after a wall collapsed . Losses in Puerto Rico totaled to approximately $ 50 @,@ 000 ( 1998 USD ) . Hurricane Bonnie ripped an artificial reef composed of tires offshore Atlantic Beach , North Carolina in late August . Danielle washed numerous of these loose tires ashore , especially on Emerald Isle . As a result , the Governor of North Carolina , Jim Hunt , requested prison labor and the National Guard to clean up beaches from Brunswick County to Carteret County . Instead of resulting in further erosion in the aftermath of Bonnie farther up along the coast , Danielle led to a 1 mile ( 1 @.@ 6 km ) increase in sand along the New Jersey coastline . In Bermuda , sustained winds of 39 mph ( 63 km / h ) and a gust of 54 mph ( 87 km / h ) were reported on September 2 . Offshore Atlantic Canada , wave heights reached as high as 82 feet ( 25 m ) . However , other than light rainfall in Newfoundland , the storm caused no impact in Canada . Tori Murden , an American attempting to become the first woman to solo row across the Atlantic Ocean , encountered rough seas from the storm and its remnants . By September 7 , Murden sent out a distress signal and was rescued by the Independent Spirit later that day . 
