Month: September 2018

Gills Creek flowed a little higher and a little quicker than normal Friday morning after lakes along the watershed were lowered in anticipation of Hurricane Florence’s arrival in the South Carolina Midlands. Nearly three years ago, torrential downpours and broken dams riled the creek, ravaging scores of homes and businesses with flooding never seen before in the Columbia area. With memories of October 2015 still painfully fresh in their minds, residents and business owners along…

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) — On Friday, dogs in Jacksonville, North Carolina, were rescued from flooded homes and brought to safety. RELATED: Shelter animals evacuated ahead of Hurricane Florence Live video showed dogs being removed from a boat in the flood waters of Hurricane Florence. The hurricane made landfall just before 7:30 Friday morning Category 1 storm. (Copyright ©2018 WTVD-TV. All Rights Reserved.)

Cajun Navy arrives in SC ahead of Florence Members of the United Cajun Navy start arriving at a staging area in Gaston, SC on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. This is one of four staging areas they are setting up to assist in rescues as Hurricane Florence hits the Carolinas.

Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wrightsville Beach around 7:15 a.m. Friday as a Category 1 storm. At a glance: Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wrightsville Beach around 7:15 a.m. Friday as a Category 1 storm. More than 500,000 customers are without power in North Carolina. Four deaths – a woman in Pender County, a mother and child in Wilmington and a person in Lenoir County – have been blamed on the storm. 200 people have…

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) — “Be careful everybody!” That was the warning from 3-year-old Brantlee McDonald as Hurricane Florence barreled through North Carolina. Brantlee, who is from Virginia Beach, VA, was visiting family when they started rolling on this forecast. And he didn’t stop there! He also did a live report during the storm as the wind picked up in his backyard. We think he has a bright future on the ABC11 First Alert Weather Team…

A crisis situation can throw anyone into a panic, especially in the face of a monster storm like Hurricane Florence. Help is available, and here are some tips to get you the assistance you need. If an emergency is threatening your life or the lives of others around you, call 911. If you are trying to evacuate and need route information, call 211, or text FLORENCE to 898211. Shelter information, as well as information about…

Hurricane Florence made landfall in Wilmington Friday as a Category 1 storm, and its impact will be felt all of Friday, much of Saturday and into next week. Overview The Triangle will feel the strongest effects from Florence throughout the day on Friday, including tropical storm force winds and several inches of rain. The heaviest rain in Raleigh will be around noon, WRAL meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner said, and we could see wind gusts up to…

Cajun Navy arrives in SC ahead of Florence Members of the United Cajun Navy start arriving at a staging area in Gaston, SC on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. This is one of four staging areas they are setting up to assist in rescues as Hurricane Florence hits the Carolinas.

A mother and an infant were killed when a tree fell on their home as Hurricane Florence made landfall in the Carolinas. A third death happened in Lenoir County, Gov. Roy Cooper said, when a person was killed while plugging in a generator. Another person died as a result of a medical incident in Pender County, according to Pender County Emergency Management Director Tom Collins. The woman was at her home in Hampstead. Collins told…