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RALEIGH, United States (AFP) — Emergency management authorities in storm-weary North Carolina said Monday that 25 people had died since Hurricane Florence, now a tropical depression, struck the US East Coast, bringing the death toll to 31. At least six more deaths have been recorded in neighboring South Carolina, as rain-bloated waterways threatened more flooding with the potential for dam failures and landslides. © Agence France-Presse
by Sébastien DUVAL Agence France Presse NEW BERN, United States (AFP) — With rain still falling and no electricity, residents of New Bern, North Carolina are starting to pick up the pieces after devastating flooding caused by Hurricane Florence. At the confluence of the Neuse and Trent rivers, where several hundred people were rescued from flood waters, uniformed national guardsmen tour an area to provide assistance. “Do you need anything?” one asks. “Power!” a weary […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Hurricane Florence, which made landfall in North Carolina on Friday, will pose “significant threats” for the next 24 to 36 hours, an emergency management official said. “This is not the end of it,” said Jeff Byard, associate administrator for response and recovery at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He said “24 to 36 hours remain for significant threats” from heavy rain, storm surge and flooding. © Agence France-Presse
NEW BERN, North Carolina (AFP) — Hurricane Florence’s storm surge causing trees to fall and building damage on the streets of New Bern, North Carolina where hundreds of people have been rescued from their homes. The riverfront town of New Bern, was hit as the sprawling Category 1 hurricane came close to making landfall.
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (AFP) — Heavy winds batter an almost empty Myrtle Beach in South Carolina as Hurricane Florence makes its presence known. The still dry sand flies around, making swirls in the beach.
WILMINGTON, United States (AFP) — Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina at 7:15 am (1115 GMT) on Friday, the National Hurricane Center said. “Hurricane Florence made landfall minutes ago,” NHC Director Ken Graham said in a Facebook Live video. © Agence France-Presse
WILMINGTON, North Carolina (AFP) — Heavy rains and high winds batter the empty streets of Wilmington, North Carolina as Hurricane Florence closes in on the Carolina coast. Emergency crews in North Carolina are scrambling to rescue hundreds of people stranded in their homes by flood waters. https://youtu.be/TvVASG-4u8c
WILMINGTON, United States (AFP) — Emergency crews in North Carolina scrambled Friday to rescue hundreds of people stranded in their homes by flood waters unleashed by Hurricane Florence. The drama was unfolding in the riverfront town of New Bern, which was hit by a huge storm surge as the sprawling Category 1 hurricane came close to making landfall. Video footage showed parking lots in New Bern turned into shallow lakes of dirty gray water as […]
MYRTLE BEACH, United States (AFP)- With Hurricane Florence downgraded on Thursday from a Category Four to a Category Two storm, and then once again, around fifty people left the evacuation shelter in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. That was a bad idea, said Avair Vereen, a local nurse who had sought safety in the shelter with her seven children. “They say if you stay (home), it’s at your own risk,” she said, noting that emergency services […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US forecasters late Thursday downgraded Hurricane Florence to a Category 1 storm, as its outer edge lashed the Carolinas with strong winds and heavy rain. In its 0300 GMT advisory, the National Hurricane Center said the maximum sustained winds of Florence were 90 miles per hour (150 kilometers per hour), dropping it to the weakest of five categories on the Saffir-Simpson scale. But the storm still carried “very dangerous winds,” the […]
by Sébastien DUVAL / with Leila Macor in Columbia, South Carolina Agence France-Presse WILMINGTON, United States (AFP) — Dangerous Hurricane Florence edged closer Thursday to delivering a powerful blow to the east coast of the United States, with forecasters warning of life-threatening rainfall and flooding even as it weakened to a Category 2 storm. As day broke for millions of jittery Americans in the monster storm’s path, rain from the Florence’s outer bands approached the […]
WILMINGTON, United States (AFP) — Hurricane Florence weakened to a Category 2 storm on Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center, but remained on course to deliver a powerful blow to the US east coast. “Florence is now a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind scale,” with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph (175 kph), the NHC said in its latest update at 0300 GMT. © Agence France-Presse
