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Matthew brought 100 miles per hour winds, as much as 15 inches of rain and powerful storm surges of up to 9 feet to several states.
Charleston County officials are expected to provide updates on the evacuation re-entry process at 10:30 a.m. Visit the Post and Courier’s Facebook page for live video of the press conference.
Officials in Robeson County, North Carolina, have found the body of a man who was in a auto that was washed away in the flooding that followed Hurricane Matthew. “There were some areas where you could see the water starting to overtake the bridges”.
Early forecasts had predicted that Hurricane Matthew would turn out to sea before causing much damage in North Carolina.
Officials said high winds would likely make it hard for drivers to control their vehicles on the bridges.
Neuse Correctional Institution sits near the confluence of the Neuse and Little rivers.
Georgia blames the storm for four deaths and SC attributed two fatalities to Matthew as of Monday morning.
Bodies have started to appear as waters recede in some areas two days after Matthew smashed concrete walls, flattened palm trees and tore roofs off homes.
The man’s identity hasn’t been released.
Four others were killed by the storm in the Dominican Republic and one each in St. Vincent and the Grenadines Island. Between 3 and 4 feet of sand has washed up on the four-lane avenue along the beachfront. Their home was undamaged when they returned.
East Carolina athletic department spokesman Tom McClellan said that the team’s flight after the Saturday afternoon game was diverted to Richmond, Virginia, because the Raleigh-Durham and Pitt-Greenville airports were closed.
In Haiti, where Matthew was a monster Category 4 when it slammed into the poorest country in the western hemisphere Tuesday, the official death toll rose to at least 336.
The already flood-prone “Holy City” was largely underwater Saturday as Hurricane Matthew passed close to Charleston. “So we’ve now got more than double the number of resources we originally planned”. FPL said it was on track to restore service in the most severely damaged and flooded areas by the end of Monday. At 11 a.m., more than 460,000 people in SC were still without power, including 278,000 electric cooperative and 185,000 SCE&G customers.
Georgia Power reports that more than 122,000 of its customers remained without power Monday. The power company said it now has to rebuild parts of the electrical system.
Brooks says he doesn’t know how quickly that inspection can occur.
McCrory said that “the storm is not over for North Carolina”. He said President Barack Obama has been in constant contact with him as the storm moved across the state.
Steve Todd, having a drink with neighbors at the bar, made sure his wife and child and their two dogs evacuated, but said he wanted to “make sure my house stays here”.
“As the sun rises in North Carolina and the blue sky returns, our state is facing major destruction and sadly loss of life”, Gov. The three new reported fatalities happened in Wilson County, Cumberland County and Wake County.
Gov. Pat McCrory warned of the possibility for the worst flooding in the state since Hurricane Floyd inundated eastern North Carolina in 1999. North Carolina’s National Guard also worked to transport bed-bound patients past flooded roads. Majority were in knee-deep water, but some fled to rooftops as the brown waters swirled around them.
When Hurricane Matthew lost strength and headed out to sea over the weekend, the storm took its high winds and driving rains with it. That brings the overall US death toll from the storm to at least 21. The extent of the damage wasn’t clear early Saturday. One death was reported in Virginia. Air and water rescues would continue throughout the day, he said.
In addition to the eight deaths in North Carolina, there were four in Florida and three each in Georgia and SC.
Almost 1 million people in North Carolina and SC were without power, two days after the eye of the hurricane moved out to sea.
“That’s probably well over 1 million people without power”, McCrory said.
“We have people on roofs (there) as we speak”, McCrory said. At least 24 United States deaths have been blamed on Matthew.
Matthew, the most powerful Atlantic storm since 2007, claimed the lives of at least 15 people in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas, including one death near Florence when a driver tried to cross a flooded road and was swept away.
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of customers across the South still didn’t have electricity.
That’s down from 625,000 on Sunday and about 825,000 at the height of the storm.
“As of mid-morning Sunday, there were more than 760,000 power outages in central and eastern North Carolina”, according to member station WUNC.
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Similar numbers were without power in North Carolina. And North Carolina officials said they had to rescue numerous people from cars and homes. The Waccamaw River was expected to crest 5 feet above flood levels in a few days. The storm killed more than 500 people in Haiti.
