Scenes From The Carolina Coast As Hurricane Florence Surges Ashore

Storm surges of 9 to 13 feet and rainfall up to 40 inches: those are two of the most dire warnings about Hurricane Florence's effect on parts of North and South Carolina. The storm is huge, the National Hurricane Center says, and its worst effects will reach "a large area regardless of exactly where the center of Florence moves." (CNN) — At least four people, including a mother and her infant, have died in North Carolina as Tropical Storm Florence slowly moves through the Carolinas, officials said Friday. On Thursday morning, a tweet from South Carolina's Emergency Management Division brought this perspective on Florence's sheer size: It's "larger than South Carolina and North Carolina combined." Roy Cooper said on Thursday. Just below the border, in Horry County, S.C., officials instituted a curfew on Thursday, to last from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. every day "until further notice." You may need to move up to the second story, or to your attic, but WE ARE COMING TO GET YOU.” Storm surges of up to 11 feet are predicted between Cape Fear and Cape Lookout in North Carolina. Storm surges, punishing winds and rain are turning some towns into rushing rivers — and the storm is expected to crawl over parts of the Carolinas into the weekend, pounding some of the same areas over and over. But there were times she thought they wouldn’t survive, she told CNN. "Because I don't know that we can go in and get you."
More than 150 residents in New Bern, North Carolina, are left stranded after 10-foot (3 m)–high storm surges flood the city.