Hurricane Florence: Bladen County rainfall estimates are 26 inches in Elizabethtown, 30 in Riegelwood
The Category 2 storm approached the coast near
"What they're saying is 26 inches for
The county was placed under curfew from
"There's no reason for anybody to be out on the roads -- everything is closed," said
The storm is expected to linger in southeastern
"The storm movement has slowed to 5 mph, so it's taken quite a while for it to get here," said
Kinlaw said the community had responded well to pleas to evacuate or find safe cover and remain there.
"Based on current shelter capacity, they've done good. In downtown
The scene was the same earlier in the afternoon -- a virtual ghost town rather than the come-and-go nature that packs Broad and Poplar streets.
The five shelters are at
Kinlaw said the concerns of he and his staff haven't changed.
"We've planned on 120 mph winds and 20 to 25 inches of rain," he said. "So, from our standpoint, nothing has changed as far as concerns."
"It truly is really about the whole size of this storm," Graham said. "The larger and slower the storm is, the greater the threat and the impact -- and we have that."
President
Schools closed as far south as
In
The 26th annual
Forecasters' European climate model predicted 2 trillion to 11 trillion gallons of rain would fall on
Duke Energy, the nation' second-largest power company, said outages could last for weeks. It estimated 75 percent of its 4 million customers would lose power.
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