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Authorities made fresh appeals Wednesday for people in eastern North Carolina to leave low-lying areas as rivers swollen with rainwater caused flooding days after Hurricane Matthew passed.
Almost 3,400 people are in shelters throughout the state, McCrory said. The total death toll is expected to rise when water recedes from flooded roads.
Power has been restored to nearly 90 percent of the SC customers who were left in the dark when Hurricane Matthew hit the state last weekend. For people stuck in shelters, McCrory said the state is working with Walmart to get long-term prescriptions to people who need their medicine. But in addition to the lost revenues and lost jobs due to widespread plant closures, Hurricane Matthew also caused thousands of hogs and pigs to drown while animal waste further polluted the state’s rivers and streams.
The department has confirmed 1.8 million poultry have died, mostly chickens, spokesman Brian Long said.
Among other things, AIR’s modelled insured loss estimates for the USA include insured physical damage to property, both structures and their contents; additional living expenses (ALE) for residential claims; insured physical damage to structures and contents, and business interruption directly caused by storm surge, for commercial lines; direct and indirect losses for insured risks that experience physical loss for business interruption; 100% of storm surge damage for the automobile line; and demand surge. Edgecombe County officials announced Friday that a donation center is open through Saturday in Tarboro for hurricane victims. Lumberton, where the Lumber River is beginning to fall, will not see a drop below the previous record flood level until early next week.
When Hurricane Matthew hit, it dumped more rain than expected west of the forecast, drenching already saturated soils.
Zipperer said she doesn’t know how much she’s lost or what insurance will cover.
The society said in a news release Thursday that workers are helping rescue stranded animals as well as sheltering animals whose homes have been destroyed. People or organizations that want to help ensure North Carolina recovers can visit NCdisasterrelief.org or text NCRECOVERS to 30306.
NCNLA Hurricane Recovery Resource Page: NCNLA will continue to update this information portal with available federal and state aid resources for affected businesses and individuals.
McCrory flew over the town on Thursday and said some sections were 10 to 20 feet under water.
In addition to the 15 storm-related deaths in North Carolina, there were five in Florida and three each in Georgia and SC.
McCrory said the flooding may be worse than what’s occurring to the south in Lumberton.
“We saw the best of North Carolina of on our tour of Robeson County”.
On Wednesday, Oct. 12 the National Weather Service (NWS) in Wilmington, North Carolina (NC) reported “All major area rivers will remain above flood stage throughout this upcoming week. If we say the water is coming and we say do not drive through that water, we mean it”, McCrory said. Tarry Faircloth of Maxwell Road in East Fayetteville had been watching football at a friend’s home that night and told him he would use Interstate 95 because he thought back roads were flooded, a sheriff’s spokesman said.
Food and water are needed for some 1.4 million people with an additional 60,000 people requiring urgent medical care. “Under the houses, it can wash a bunch of the foundations away”.
While she got many belongings out, they couldn’t move everything – one of their bicycles is chained to a back deck surrounded by water.
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Sheriff’s spokesman Gary Davidson said at least four callers reported trees falling onto their homes in the Daytona Beach area. Pastor Rick Rigney lives in the parsonage, also on dry land near the church, but many of his flock had to evacuate ahead of new flooding from Hurricane Matthew.
