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by Sébastien DUVAL / with Leila Macor in Columbia, South Carolina Agence France Presse WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, United States (AFP) — Highways clogged with people fleeing North and South Carolina early Wednesday as monstrous Category 4 Hurricane Florence rumbled toward the eastern US as the biggest storm there in decades. While many coastal residents heeded mandatory evacuation orders, others boarded up homes and businesses and chose to brave the storm, which is forecast to trigger severe […]
VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia (Eagle News) – Hurricane Florence, the first major hurricane for 2018 in the Atlantic Ocean, is now a category four storm. Over the weekend, the governors of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia declared a state of emergency so that resources needed for preparation could be released. Storm prompts evacuations and school closures In Virginia on Monday, Governor Ralph Northam, declared Zone A under a mandatory evacuation, effective Tuesday, September 11 at 8 […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump boasted Tuesday of the US response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, where almost 3,000 people were killed last year, as another major storm barreled toward the eastern United States. Speaking to reporters as Hurricane Florence closed in on the US East Coast, Trump said last year’s operation was “an incredible unsung success.” Hurricane Maria pummeled Puerto Rico in September 2017, wreaking widespread devastation and causing $90 […]
APEX, North Carolina (Eagle News) — As Hurricane Florence makes its way across the Atlantic, North Carolina residents brace for the storm’s impact. Store shelves have been emptied out days before the expected arrival of the category four hurricane. (Eagle News Service)
