File photo showing rescue team members from the North Carolina National Guard 1/120th battalion go door-to-door as they evacuate residents in an apartment complex threatened by rising floodwaters from Hurricane Florence in New Bern, N.C., on Sept. 14, 2018. AP Photo/Chris Seward
Annazette Riley-Cromartie thought her family would be OK because they lived in a brick house.
She was at her home in eastern North Carolina with her husband, three children, and dog as Hurricane Florence churned in the Atlantic. She watched the massive storm seemingly lose strength in the past few days as it dropped through the categories of hurricane power.
