According to AAA, more than 1.6 million Floridians plan on taking a trip more than 50 miles away from home this Labor Day weekend.

However with so many people on the roadways this weekend, various law enforcement agencies will also be on the major roadways keeping an eye on motorists.

Last year, troopers issued more than 16,000 citations statewide over Labor Day weekend and arrested 136 impaired drivers. There were 23 traffic fatalities last year over the holiday weekend, compared to same period in 2008 during which 36 people died in crashes.

If you intend to party during Labor Day and need to get safely home, the Tow to Go program will send a tow truck to pick you and your vehicle, free of charge, throughout the long holiday weekend.

The service is available at no charge to both AAA members and non-members in an effort to protect everyone on the roads by keeping would-be drunk drivers from getting behind the wheel.

Call 1-800-AAA-HELP (1-800-222-4357) to get a free tow home.

Daytime temperatures will likely stay in the low 90s statewide on Labor Day with heat index values in the upper 90s

MIAMI, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- North Carolina got a break from Hurricane Earl, which weakened as it approached the Outer Banks, then veered east and stayed at sea.

Instead of hurricane conditions, the state's coastline was belted Thursday night into Friday morning by tropical storm-force winds that flooded streets, ripped siding off some buildings, tore shingles from roofs and caused spotty power outages, The Charlotte Observer said.

"I think everyone will be grateful, once they see the area after Earl has gone," hurricane chaser Mark Sudduth said Friday. "There hasn't been much damage."

Emergency management officials along North Carolina's Outer Banks reported no significant damage. The most frequent report was ocean overwash scattered along N.C. Highway 12 and on roads adjacent to Pamlico Sound, officials said.

Hurricane Earl, a Category 2 hurricane with top sustained winds of 105 mph, was about 85 miles east of Cape Hatteras, N.C., and about 465 miles south-southwest of Nantucket, Mass., moving north-northeast at 18 mph, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Friday in its 5 a.m. EDT advisory. The eye of the storm was expected to approach southeastern New England by Friday night.

Hurricane warnings were in effect for Cape Lookout, N.C., to the North Carolina-Virginia state line, and for Westport, Mass., east around Cape Cod to Hull, including Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Island.

Tropical warnings and watches were posted along the East Coast from North Carolina into Nova Scotia and Newfoundland in Canada, the hurricane center said.

Earl was forecast to pass close to New Jersey Friday afternoon and to move by Cape Cod, Mass., at night night as a Category 1 hurricane, CNN said. It was expected to make a direct landfall over southern Nova Scotia Saturday, still carrying a Category 1 rating.

President Barack Obama signed a disaster declaration for North Carolina and an emergency disaster declaration for Massachusetts.

Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate said the agency is "ready for this storm no matter what happens," CNN reported. FEMA has spent the past few days moving supplies and teams into states from North Carolina to Massachusetts in advance of Earl's arrival.