Weβre easing into Monday with a continuationΒ of what we saw over the weekend! Temperatures start off in the 50s early in the morning and climb into the low to mid-80s by the afternoon. The mountains expect a cooler start to the week with highs in the low 70s. After Monday, the pattern really begins to shift.
Hurricane Michael gained new strength Monday and is expected to keep growing stronger ahead of an expected midweek strike on Floridaβs Panhandle, forecasters said.
Eleven days ago, Lee Gantt was at a Hurricane Florence party in her neighborhood in Georgetown, where the story goes that some houses havenβt flooded from the Sampit River since they were built before the American Revolution
Ten days after Hurricane Florence came ashore, the storm caused fresh chaos Monday across the Carolinas, where rivers kept rising and thousands more people were told to be ready to evacuate.
A new round of evacuations was ordered in South Carolina as the trillions of gallons of water dumped by Hurricane Florence meanders to the sea, raising river levels and threatening more destruction.
Duke Energy activated a high-level emergency alert at a retired coal-fired power plant in North Carolina as floodwaters from the nearby Cape Fear River overtopped an earthen dike at the facility and inundated a large lake, raising concerns of a potential breach.
It's been nearly a week since Hurricane Florence tore through the Carolinas.
Exhaustion and frustration are building in the Carolinas as thousands of people wait to go home days after Hurricane Florence unleashed epic floods blamed for at least 37 deaths, including those of two women who drowned when a sheriffβs van taking them to a mental health facility was swept off a road.
Nine police officers from the City of Monroe Police Department will be heading to Boiling Springs Lake in eastern North Carolina with equipment to assist law enforcement in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence.
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