And the question is how high will the water be, and we do not know.”īy 5 a.m. “Those rivers in North Carolina that have received heavy rainfall are coming our way,” Governor Henry McMaster told a news conference. South Carolina’s governor urged anyone in a flood-prone area to evacuate.
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Six people died in South Carolina, including four in car accidents and two from carbon monoxide from a portable generator. The storm killed at least 11 people in North Carolina, including a mother and child hit by a falling tree, state officials said. The coastal city of Wilmington remained cut off by high flood waters early on Monday, tens of thousands of homes were damaged and at least 17 deaths were reported in North and South Carolina. “Those rivers are going to start to crest later today and Tuesday and maybe longer.”įlash floods, landslide warnings and “prolonged significant river flooding” throughout the region will continue for the next few days, the National Weather Service (NWS) said.
“The soil is soaked and can’t absorb any more rain, so that water has to go somewhere, unfortunately,” he said. WILMINGTON/WILSON, N.C., Sept 17 (Reuters) - Deadly storm Florence moved across western North Carolina early on Monday and continued to dump rain that has nowhere to go except to swell rivers, flood highways and homes, and threaten more lives as it heads towards Virginia and New England.įor the water-logged Carolinas, “the worst is yet to come” as river levels rise to historic levels, said Zach Taylor, a meteorologist with the U.S.
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