Month: September 2018

As Hurricane Florence, now a tropical storm, crawls through the Carolinas, our reporters and photojournalists are on the coast. Their Friday reports from the coast are here. You can follow them at @_andrewcarter, @joshshaffer08, @MarthaQuillin. @vizjourno, , , New Bern, N.C..: A kitten, a photo, a flood 10 a.m. Both were wet. Both wore tired expressions. A photo of Robert Simmons Jr. and his kitten has gone viral — a moment that seemed to capture…

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. At a glance: Many North Carolina residents are dealing with flooding after Florence made landfall Thursday as a Category 1 storm Friday. Florence was downgraded to a Tropical Storm late Friday. More than 814,000…

Some roads have closed as Tropical Storm Florence makes its way through North Carolina. Here are some of the major road closures as of Saturday morning: -I-95 in Harnett County from marker 71 near Long Branch Road heading south Take Exit 138-B for US-64 West. Take US-64 West until reaching I-440 and use the right two lanes for Exit 419 to I-440 West. Continue on I-440 West for 14 miles then stay in the left…

Beaufort, N.C. — As Hurricane Florence pounded the North Carolina coast on Friday, Carteret County deputies and North Carolina National Guard soldiers responded to 128 Elnora Jones Road in the Otway community and found two people dead, authorities said. A preliminary investigation determined Pauly Lewis and his wife, Alicia Lewis, died in an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said. No other details were immediately available.

Neighbor remembers NC victims killed by Florence Sep 15, 2018 A mother and infant in North Carolina are dead after a tree fell on their home – the first two fatalities of Hurricane Florence. Adam Sparks, a neighbor, says he heard the tree crashing down, but wasn’t sure what had happened. By

Blowing ashore with howling 90 mph winds, Hurricane Florence splintered buildings, trapped hundreds of people, and swamped entire communities along the Carolina coast Friday in what could be just the opening act in a watery, two-part, slow-motion disaster.Florence was downgraded to a Tropical Storm Friday. ABC11 is providing live, nonstop coverage of Hurricane Florence. For regular programming go to 11.2. Click here for how to find 11.2 More than 360 people had been rescued by…

As Tropical Storm Florence continues to crawl across the Carolinas, customers affected will get free calling, texting and data services from major cell phone carriers. Verizon Wireless is making unlimited domestic Talk, Text & Data available to postpaid and prepaid customers from Sep. 14 – 17. AT&T will issue credits and waive additional charges to provide unlimited talk, text, and data access from Sep. 11 – 25. T-Mobile is extending its offer to those not…