Friday is going to feel like a completely different season. Sunshine will be with us all day, and afternoon temperatures will climb into the low 70s. A light breeze will keep things comfortable, but youโll want to have a jacket handy Friday evening. Once the sun sets, those temperatures will quickly slide through the 60s and back into the 50s. Friday night football is a go, with zero issues from the weather this week.
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 sheriffโs 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 Florenceโs floodwaters and people waiting for hours for handouts of necessities like food, North Carolinaโs 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.
Like hurricanes Harvey and Katrina before it, Florence will be remembered for unleashing a staggering amount of water over a vast area.
Two years ago, from Hurricane Matthew and in 1999, from Hurricane Floyd, floodwaters came close to entering Joe Holmesโ house in South Carolina, but he dodged those bullets. Now, with Florence , he doesnโt feel so lucky.
