Monday morning is going to feel pretty cool again, with lows in the midΒ to upperΒ 40s across theΒ region.Β It willΒ warm up nicely by the afternoon, with highs climbing close to 80 degrees. Weβll have plenty of sunshine, and that bright, warm pattern sticks around into Tuesday, when temperatures inch up a few more degrees.
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.
With Wilmington still mostly an island surrounded by Hurricane Florenceβs floodwaters and people waiting for hours for handouts of necessities like food, North Carolinaβs governor is pleading with thousands of evacuees to be patient and not return home just yet.
The river seethed a quarter-mile away, bulging from its banks, so the patrol cars circled the neighborhood three times.
