Florence poses a new threat for rural, struggling towns
Now a sofa and other furniture rest under tarps on his small front porch as he and his wife Gloria prepare for Hurricane Florence dumping on eastern
"It's scaring me to death," Howell said. "If I lose my place, I ain't coming back. I'm not coming back to
Howell figures he has two options if he needs to flee. His daughter lives about 30 miles west, away from the river. That's certainly where his most prized possessions loaded aboard his pickup are likely going Wednesday, he said. And his granddaughter is staying in a secure motel through her retail employer's largess, so maybe Howell and his wife could rest there, he said.
The rich have long claimed higher ground along waterways, and that left freed slaves to claim bottom land that made
Many people with limited means like the disabled Howells will struggle to escape
The median household income of
"What I'm fearful about is there are a lot of people who are not going to be OK because they don't have elevated structures," Cutter said. "They're in low-lying flood prone areas and they didn't leave because they had nowhere to go and no resources to get there."
Smaller and economically struggling communities across eastern
"The idea is to have those shelters available to people on higher ground, and no matter what their income, we want to get people out of places that may be flooding," Cooper said.
In
"We are trying to provide transportation where they do not have transportation," said
Retired sisters
"They're saying it's 400 miles wide. There's no telling what it might do," Pope said. "When the water starts coming and I see it coming, I'm moving."
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