Month: September 2018

NYC Urban Search and Rescue team performs water rescues near New Bern, NC Units with New York City’s Urban Search and Rescue team were dispatched to River Bend, near New Bern, North Carolina, on Sept. 14, 2018, to help perform rescues following Hurricane Florence’s arrival to the area.

Jacksonville damage: Downed trees, damaged buildings VIDEO: Downed trees, damaged buildings in Wilmington How to get help with food after Florence Dogs, cats need rescuing from Carteret County Humane Society due to Florence flooding Evacuations issued in Cumberland County; list of area shelters

JACKSONVILLE, NC (WTVD) — Jacksonville saw heavy rain and wind during Hurricane Florence, leaving behind damaged buildings and downed trees. See some of the damage around the city in the video above. PHOTOS: Florence damage around North Carolina (Copyright ©2018 WTVD-TV. All Rights Reserved.)

Tropical Storm Florence is continuing to drop torrential rain across the state Saturday as the system moves into South Carolina. While clean-up has started in many areas, water rescues are still underway and hundreds of people are still in survival mode. According to WRAL meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner, while strong winds were the focus on Friday, “heavy rain is the story today.” At a glance: Many North Carolina residents are dealing with flooding after Florence made…

Dogs, cats need rescuing from Carteret County Humane Society due to Florence flooding Evacuations issued in Cumberland County; list of area shelters Power outage numbers approaching one million after Florence hits NC Curfews, bus service, trash pickup schedules – what you need to know after Florence Family of evacuees seeks shelter in Harnett County

As pounding winds began to subside in the wake of deadly Hurricane Florence Saturday, the Carolinas readied for what may be even grimmer days ahead: unrelenting rain expected to push rivers already topping their banks even higher. By Saturday evening, the storm’s death toll reached at least nine, including three people killed by flash flooding on roads. Flash flooding had shut down majors highways across North Carolina even as more evacuations were ordered. Hundreds have…

By Kyle Morton, HighSchoolOT.com Multimedia Journalist As communities across Eastern North Carolina brace for and work to recover from the continued impact of Hurricane Florence, many area high schools have been converted into storm shelters. The conversion of high schools to shelters has long been a hallmark for the way communities take care of their own. While hundreds of people seek refuge in local high schools, the students who typically populate the halls of these…

Ten deaths have been confirmed in North Carolina as a result of Hurricane Florence, which is now a tropical storm. An 11th person died in South Carolina A husband and wife who died in a Fayetteville house fire are now counted among the dead from Florence. Two deaths were reported in Duplin County on Saturday afternoon. The Duplin County Sheriff’s Office did not say exactly how the pair died; however, they said their deaths were…

For the past decade North Carolina has faced the grim prospect of a hurricane so enormous and destructive that residents in every county of the state would be on the hook financially for the recovery. Residents statewide could be charged for hurricane damage that didn’t touch their homes, under a 2009 state law created as a safeguard against increasingly violent windstorms that could obliterate the runaway development along the state’s coastline. That year the legislature…

By CLAIRE GALOFARO, AP National Writer LUMBERTON, N.C. — She takes a break from hauling rugs and family heirlooms into the attic to look out the front door and watch it rain and rain and rain some more. Nichole Worley studies the house across the street, abandoned and boarded up, and the creek just behind it that made it that way. It jumped its banks during Hurricane Matthew two years ago, which drowned her neighborhood,…