The eye of Hurricane Florence,which made landfall as a Category 1 storm in North Carolina on Friday at 7:15 a.m., is expected to stay in the area for another day as it pummels coastal cities in South Carolina.
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“In a matter of seconds, my house was flooded up to the waist, and now it is to the chest,” Peggy Perry, a New Bern resident woman who was trapped in her home Friday morning,told CNN. “We are stuck in the attic.”
Florence is expected to drop up to 40 inches of rain in some towns in North and South Carolina, according toToday. By mid-Friday morning, the hurricane had already taken power from more than 500,000 customers across the two states and led to the cancellation of more than 1,300 flights,CNN reported.
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There also could be extremely destructive flash flooding in inland areas because the storm surge is preventing rivers from draining. “You’re going to have flooding miles and miles,” Ken Graham, director of the National Hurricane Center,told CNN Friday.
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“I would say certain areas of New Bern are very desperate,” Craven County spokeswoman Amber Park told ABC News on Friday. “There are people that can be trapped in water, in vehicles, on roofs. That’s just the situation for anyone.”
She added: “They just have to wait until the weather conditions permit them to make it here safely.”
source: people.com
