Preparing For The Storm & Dealing With The Aftermath
With one grueling day behind them, the Carolinas on Friday grappled with rising water and cascading misery from a deadly and agonizingly slow-moving Tropical Storm Florence expected to linger through the weekend. In Myrtle Beach, rescuers discovered a dead mother and her baby, two of at least five deaths blamed on the storm, after spending much of the day trying to cut through debris and a towering tree that crashed through their roof. The Cajun…
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More than half a million customers are without power in North Carolina as Tropical Storm Florence brings heavy, life-threatening floods to the coast.As of 6:15 p.m., Friday, 726,500 people were without power. VIEW THE OUTAGE MAP BELOW. More outage information here Most of the outages are in Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus Craven, Duplin, New Hanover, Robeson, Sampson, Wake, Wayne, Pamlico, Pender and Onslow counties near the coast. RELATED: What to do if you lose…
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National Hurricane Center predictions that Hurricane Florence would “pile up water” along the North Carolina coast came true on Friday, when the storm broke multiple tide records, some dating back more than six decades. A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration tide gauge in Wrightsville Beach reached 4.11 feet above high tide on Friday, breaking a record set by Hurricane Joaquin in 2015 by more than a foot, NOAA officials said. That’s more than 4 feet…
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Wilmington sees strongest wind gust since 1958 SOUTHEASTERN N.C. — Hurricane Florence became a deadly storm Friday, claiming three lives in Hampstead and Wilmington as it roared into, and stalled over, the Wilmington region. Wilmington police confirmed Friday afternoon that a mother and infant were killed when a tree crashed through their home on Mercer Avenue. And a woman suffered a heart attack Friday and emergency responders were not able to get to her in…
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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (KTVU) – A group of strangers from around the country came together to help a help a woman who was planning to “hunker down” with her seven dogs in Hurricane Florence. As Christine Meinhold spoke on CNN about how she didn’t have a working car and was unable to evacuate from Myrtle Beach, people around the country became concerned. Meinhold told CNN that she was responsible for her seven rescue dogs and refused to abandon…
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A roundup of news concerning Hurricane Florence’s assault on the Carolinas. How much rain? How many without power? Where’s the most damage so far? And what about the zoos? It’s about the water, not the wind, with Hurricane Florence making an extended stay along the North Carolina coast. Forecasters say “it cannot be emphasized enough that the most serious hazard associated with slow-moving Florence is extremely heavy rainfall, which will cause disastrous flooding that will…
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Hurricane Florence is pummeling the Carolinas with strong winds, heavy rain and dangerous tidal surges, destroying buildings and lives. The Red Cross is providing safe shelter and comfort for evacuees across six states. More than 20,000 people sought refuge in more than 200 Red Cross and community shelters Thursday night to escape the storm’s wrath. HOW YOU CAN HELP Red Cross:The Red Cross depends on financial donations to provide disaster relief. You can help people…
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Every year, storms pop up during hurricane season and all of a sudden we have a Katrina, Sandy or Wilma threatening to wreak havoc on us. After all the years of recorded named storms, one has to wonder: What happens when we run out of names? Well, it’s kind of a twofold question. And the answer is, we (kind of) don’t. Stay with me. For starters — and a brief insight as to why we…
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As Hurricane Florence continues to move inland through South Carolina, most of the state has been placed under a flash flood watch by the National Weather Service. There are specific areas in S.C. that have been issued flood warnings, but there is a difference between that and flash flooding. “Flooding is an overflowing of water onto land that is normally dry,” according to the National Severe Storms Laboratory. A flash flood is “the most dangerous…
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Wilmington sees strongest wind gust since 1958 SOUTHEASTERN N.C. — Hurricane Florence became a deadly storm Friday, claiming three lives in Hampstead and Wilmington as it roared into, and stalled over, the Wilmington region.Wilmington police confirmed Friday afternoon that a mother and infant were killed when a tree crashed through their home on Mercer Avenue. And a woman suffered a heart attack Friday and emergency responders were not able to get to her in time,…
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A section of the Carolina Beach Fishing Pier appears to have been destroyed by Hurricane Florence. (Source: WECT) CAROLINA BEACH, NC (WECT) – The Carolina Beach Fishing Pier appears to have been significantly damaged as Hurricane Florence slammed the New Hanover County shoreline throughout Friday. Some of the pier’s broken pillars could be seen jetting out from the ocean water as the rough waves continued to hammer the Pleasure Island landmark. The pier was initially built in 1946…
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North Carolina’s wild horse herd has weathered Florence’s fury. “They are survivors,” herd manager Meg Puckett told The News & Observer on Friday. Ahead of the storm, then a powerful Category 4, the Corolla Wild Horse Fund (CWHF), a nonprofit which manages the herd, posted on Facebook that the wild mustangs that make the Outer Banks their home would manage just fine without help, even in the face of heavy rain and hurricane-force winds. A…
Read MoreThe East Carolina football team headed to Orlando, Fla., earlier this week to get out of the path of Hurricane Florence and be closer to its Sept. 22 opponent, Central Florida. Duke’s football team left for Texas on Thursday, a day earlier than planned, for its Saturday game at Baylor. Other local teams – North Carolina, N.C. State, North Carolina Central – canceled or postponed their weekend games due to Florence, a deadly storm that…
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