Deadly Storm Florence’s Rising Floodwaters Devastate North Carolina
A Lumberton firefighter holds on to two nursing home patients as a member of the Cajun Navy drives his truck during the evacuation of a nursing home due to rising flood waters in Lumberton, North Carolina, on Sept. 15, 2018 in the wake of Hurricane Florence. Alex Edelman / AFP/Getty Images
WILSON/WILMINGTON, N.C.—Deadly storm Florence drenched North Carolina with more downpours on Sept. 16, cutting off the city of Wilmington, damaging tens of thousands of homes, and threatening worse flooding as rivers fill to bursting point.
The death toll rose to at least 15 from Florence, which crashed into the state as a hurricane on Sept. 14, bringing record rainfall.
